National Universities Commission - Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the position of Director/Chief Executive, Nigeria French Language Village, Topo-Badagry, Lagos Nigeria.

Job Title: Director/Chief Executive

Job Location: Lagos

The Village
The Nigeria French Language Village was established in 1991 as an Inter-University Centre under the ambit of the National Universities Commission (NUC) with the statutory mandate of:

  • Providing Language Immersion Programme (LIP) as a domestic alternative to the erstwhile foreign-based (year round) component of the B.A./BEd French programmes in Nigerian Universities:
  • Providing similar acculturation for students of French in Nigerian Colleges of Education.

Responsibilities

  • Broadly, the Director, as the Chief Executive, shall be the Chief Administrative and Academic Officer of the Language Village, the Chairman of the Academic Board, and an ex-officio member of the Governing Council
  • He/She is the image figure for the Language Village.
  • Maintaining efficiency and good order of the Language Village. All other officers within the internal management structure are responsible to him/her. His/Her success in managing the resources available to him depends not only on his/her profession as an academic, but also on his/ her ability to lead, motivate and inspire administrative associates. academic and non-academic staff as well as students, to work toward the central purpose of the Village, to advance learning and enhance talent.
  • The Director shall exercise generate supervision over the Language Village and shall have a general responsibility to the Council for maintaining and promoting the efficiency and good order of the Language Village, and it shall be his/her duty to see that the provisions of the Act establishing the Language Village and the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations are observed
  • He/She shall, by virtue of his office, be a member of the Council, where he/she is the main official source of information on the state of affairs of the Language Village.
  • He/She will bring to the Council all development programmes relating to the future of the Language Village after they have been discussed at the various Committees and the Academic Board.
  • He/She shall be the Chairman of the Academic Board of the Language Village with responsibility for formulating and continuously evaluating the academic programmes and research policy of the Village


Requirements

  • The candidate for this position is expected to be an internationally distinguished French Linguist with the following qualifications and attributes:
  • Possession of a Ph.D Degree in French Language from a reputable University as well as having been a full Professor of French in a reputable University for at Least eight ( years.
  • Evidence of distinguished French Language research accomplishments characterized by consistent and sustained publications of high Level research articles in reputable international journals and/or research books/monographs by reputable international publishers - including at least two such articles or one book in the last five years.
  • Ability and resolve to provide the type of leadership that will enable the Language Village achieve its mandate outlined above
  • Extensive cognate administrative experience
  • Ability to generate funds for the Language Village beyond the basic Government funding
  • Having a clear vision for further development of the Language Village into a world class Centre of Excellence in French Language, as well as ability to provide quality Leadership and leadership by examples: and
  • Belief in accountability, justice and fairness


Tenure of Appointment
The tenure of appointment for this Office is as enshrined in the enabling Act of the Language Village. i.e a single term of five (5) years, and no more

Salary and Fringe Benefits
The salary and fringe benefits for this position is the same with that of a Vice-Chancellor of a Federal University in Nigeria

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Application Deadline: 27th September, 2013