Finance And Administration Officer at African Union

Grade: P2

Supervisor: Directors of PAU Institutes

Department: Human Resource, Science and Technology Department

Duty Station: PAU Institutes in Nairobi , Kenya

The Pan African University (PAU) is a continental academic and research institution created by the African Union, that is based on the following guiding principles: academic freedom, autonomy, accountability, quality assurance, strengthening existing African institutions at the graduate and post-graduate levels to enable them to serve the whole continent, excellence and international partnerships in academic and research activities, gender parity and equality at all levels and in all university functions.

In order to contribute to the emergence and strengthening of an African higher education and research platform, the PAU consists of five (5) thematic Institutes hosted by existing institutions located in the five geographic regions of the African Union, namely: i. Life and Earth Sciences (including Health and Agriculture) located at University of Ibadan in Nigeria for Western Africa ii. Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation located at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kenya for Eastern Africa iii. Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences located at University of Yaoundé II in Cameroon for Central Africa iv. Water and Energy Sciences (including climate change) located at University of Tlemcen in Algeria for North Africa, and v. Space Sciences located at University of Cape Town in South Africa for Southern Africa.

The PAU also aims at the promotion of African integration through the mobility of students, academic and administrative staff, collaborative research linked to the challenges faced by African countries, the institution of Organization an appropriate framework to enable the African Diaspora to contribute towards the development of higher education and research in Africa, promotion of inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary research programmes linked to policy making processes, promotion of productive linkages with the industrial sector for innovation and dissemination of new knowledge, full use of Information and Communication Technologies for pedagogy, research and management. The PAU takes into account the basic principles of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In seeking to achieve the PAU mandate and objectives, the African Union intends to strengthen its human resources on filling in all its vacant posts. Thus the Commission of the African Union invites applicants who are citizens of Member States for the post of Finance and Administration Officer to be placed at the Pan African University Institutes.