Employment or Consulting Opportunities  

Commonwealth of Learning
1055 West Hastings Street, Suite 1200
Vancouver, BC V6E 2E9 Canada

Attention: Human Resources & Contracts Manager

Fax: +1 604 775 8210
E-mail: opportunities@col.org

COL supplements its staff resources and internal expertise by contracting consultants to undertake some of its programme work in the implementation and delivery of its Three-year Plans. The expertise of consultants may be required at various stages for such services as:

• Needs analysis and feasibility study services
• Workshop facilitation, training and instructional design
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Other short and medium term professional and technical assistance.
  

A consultant or team of consultants may be commissioned.

If you are interested in consulting opportunities with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), a Consultant Form must be completed and returned to us. It will provide us with information on your background in open learning/distance education, training of distance educators, instructional design/materials development, educational technology/media, environmental education, gender and development, planning and management, research and evaluation, etc. The form is available for download through the link on the right.

Also available for download on the right is a document that provides further information on COL's use and selection of consultants.

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW
DEHub, University of New England, Australia

DEHub, the Innovation in Distance Education project based at the University of New England in Australia is currently advertising a Principal Research Fellow (Academic Level D) position to lead research for the project

Details: www.une.edu.au/recruit/2009/2009-051-100/209-086.php 

Closing Date: 13 July 2009.
 

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VICE-CHANCELLOR
University of Mauritius

The Council of the University of Mauritius invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the post of Vice-Chancellor, which will become vacant in December 2009.

The island of Mauritius, situated in the Indian Ocean, consists of a multi-ethnic population of around 1.2M and has one of the most successful and competitive economies in Africa; 2009 GDP was estimated at approximately 8300 million USD and per capita GDP at 6500 USD, one of the highest in Africa. The economy is based on tourism, textiles, sugar and financial services. In recent years, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), particularly business process outsourcing, and seafood have emerged as important sectors of the economy.

The University of Mauritius (UoM), founded in 1965, is a rapidly expanding institution with five (5) Faculties namely Agriculture, Engineering, Law and Management, Science, and Social Studies and Humanities, and with four (4) Centres. The University has a current staff population of about 1,000 and a student population of around 9,000. It aims at increasing its capacity to 15,000 students by 2015, and at laying more emphasis on research.

The Vice-Chancellor is the principal academic and administrative officer of the University and has general responsibility to its Council. S/he is assisted in her/his duties by two Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the Registrar, the Budget Director, the Chief Librarian and the five Deans of Faculty.

Applicants should satisfy the following criteria:

a) be of Professor grade and hold a doctorate;

b) have substantial experience in teaching and research;

c) have strong managerial abilities and leadership skills;

d) have a deep sense of professional ethics and moral values.

Detailed information on the desired profile, conditions of service and application procedures for this post, is available at www.uom.ac.mu/vice-chancellor.

Application deadline: 31 August 2009.

Mrs. S.R. Issur-Goorah
Registrar

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22 June 2009