Vacancies

Assistant Registrar (Estates and Facilities) (UM7) (1 position)

Qualifications and Attributes

Applicants should possess the following qualifications and attributes:

  • Master’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Structural Engineering, Architecture or other relevant fields

  • 5 years’ experience in the relevant field at senior officer level.

  • Membership with a relevant professional body.

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Providing leadership in the development and maintenance of estates.

  2. Initiating, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing estates development and maintenance policies, plans, strategies, systems, procedures, and regulations.

  3. Providing advisory services related to estates development and maintenance to line managers.

  4. Dealing with tenancy and leasehold matters,

  5. Ensuring quality control of infrastructure development and maintenance works;

  6. Monitoring implementation of estates development projects.

  7. Assessing and certifying completed works;

  8. Servicing relevant committees.

  9. Preparing product specifications and Terms of reference for construction works and services.

  10. Preparing bill of quantities for budget estimates for estates development and maintenance works.

  11. Managing relationship with external stakeholders.

  12. Initiating aesthetic ways of face-lifting the existing built facilities.

  13. Monitoring and evaluating outsourced estates-related services.

 

Application letter should clearly state the position being applied foraccompanied by relevant copies of certificates, a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) including the names of three traceable referees, and, where available, a statement of the candidate’s teaching and research agenda and samples of publications.

The application package should be sent to:

The Registrar
University of Malawi

P. O. Box 280
ZOMBA

Or

Email: vacancies@unima.ac.mw not later than 11TH April, 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged.