Reporting to the University Council, the Vice-Chancellor serves as the University’s senior academic and executive leader and accounting officer, providing strategic, academic, administrative, and institutional leadership across UFH’s campuses and communities.

• Champion and deliver a compelling new strategic direction
• Advance student experience, holistic student development and success
• Strengthen academic excellence across the three core academic pillars of learning and teaching, research, and social engagement
• Build a high-performing, professional, ethical and accountable institution underpinned by a culture of excellence
• Promote sound governance, financial sustainability, institutional resilience and responsible stewardship
• Strengthen resource planning, optimise infrastructure management and advance responsible technological innovation and digital transformation
• Demonstrate ethical and effective leadership and uphold the University’s governance framework and institutional values
• Unite the University community around a shared vision, purpose and set of strategic priorities
• Expand strategic partnerships and resource-mobilisation networks, strengthen the University’s influence and enhance its performance and sustainability
• Foster purposeful and mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Strengthen the University’s contribution and impact in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, across the African continent and globally

The University of Fort Hare is a South African national treasure, an African intellectual landmark, and a recognised symbol of the power of education to transform lives and societies. For more than a century, the University has occupied a distinctive place in the intellectual, political, and social landscape of South Africa and the African continent.

The University now seeks a new Vice-Chancellor to lead the institution into its next chapter of organisational transformation and excellence, while navigating the complexities and challenges facing higher education in South Africa and globally.