Lecturer (Community Health)
Full time @Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) posted 3 weeks ago in Government Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 13395
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Career Level Officer
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Experience 3 Years
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Gender Both
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Industry Government
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
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Job Type Full time
Job Description
DEPARTMENT: Community Health
Position: Lecturer (Community Health)
Salary Scale: PU6.1 (TSC)
Number of Posts: One (1)
Reports to: Head of Department
Tenure of Appointment: Permanent, subject to successful completion of six (6) months probationary period
Qualifications
- PhD or PhD Track in the relevant field.
- Master’s degree in Community Health or Public Health.
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, or other relevant degree.
- Evidence of contribution to community service.
- Must not be above 40 years of age at the time of application.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Teaching, engaging, informing, and inspiring staff and students through both classroom and online delivery of lectures, tutorials, and seminars.
- Developing innovative teaching materials for physical and online delivery to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Supervising students undertaking research projects.
- Conducting high-impact research and disseminating research findings.
- Assessing and evaluating students’ work, compiling and grading of examination results.
- Contributing to the planning and evaluation of academic programs in the department/faculty.
- Contributing to the marketing of departmental programs.
- Participating in professional duties such as faculty open days and other recruitment processes as appropriate.
- Contributing to the University and wider society through community service.
- Writing proposals for attracting resources to the department.
- Mentoring junior staff and students.
- Performing any other duties that may be assigned from time to time by the Head of Department, Faculty, or University Management.
Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)
- MUST is a Public University located in Western Uganda, Mbarara City, 7 km on Mbarara-Bushenyi road.
- MUST’s vision is to be a Centre of Academic and Professional Excellence in Science and Technology.
- In order to achieve this vision, MUST is building a team of highly qualified and skilled persons who can ably contribute to providing quality and relevant education at the national and international levels, with particular emphasis on science and technology and its application to community development.
- Applications are therefore invited from suitably qualified Ugandans to fill vacant positions that exist in MUST.
How to Apply
- Applicants must use the application form, which should be downloaded from the University website: www.must.ac.ug.
- Applicants should request at least two of their referees to separately send sealed confidential reference letters attesting to the applicant’s competencies and suitability for the job applied for, to the address below before the closing date of the advert.
- Applications, in PDF as a single file, should be submitted to the email address: appointments@must.ac.ug not later than Friday, 9th January, 2026 at 5:00 pm East African time.
Note
- Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.
- Applicants who do not use the prescribed form will not be considered.
- Hard copy applications shall not be received.
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