The powers and responsibilities of the dean include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Develop, together with the faculty program manager and Academic Council, core process performance standards, procedures and guidelines;
- Ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction on the faculty’s core processes and programs;
- Developing better work systems, environment and incentive system so as to improve motivation of staff, efficiency and effectiveness;
- Establish and maintain bilateral and multilateral partnerships with international and local bodies;
- Represent and advocate his faculty in internal and external affairs, in external intellectual and social affairs and events; attend and speak on behalf of his faculty on annual process and university meetings;
- Ensure the provision of resources, facilities, training and education needed for the faculty’s staff;
- Ensure that budget for scholarship related costs such as airfare are allocated in their annual plans.
- Ensure the delivery of adequate, continuous and relevant staff development, training and education programs in collaboration with international partners, university leadership and others;
- Authorize temporary degrees issued by the faculty;
- Authorize permanent degrees together with the President;
- Create, improve and maintain core processes in academic, research and outreach services;
- Set target performance levels, for the core processes of the faculty, communicate the goal and process map for its attainment to the faculty’s core process teams;
- Develop better designs, technologies and mechanisms to improve process performance;
- Implement continuous quality management and process improvement initiatives;
- Develop appropriate staff development programs in line with the target performance goals of the faculty’s core processes;
- Conduct periodic and continuous impact assessment and evaluation on the performance of the faculty’s core processes;
- Benchmark local and foreign best practices in areas related to the faculty’s services and deliverables and process;
