MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY

STAFF VACANCY 

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons for the following posts:

The duties and responsibilities of a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor are grouped into 5 main categories which are:

(a) Teaching – the incumbent is expected to teach or deliver lectures in accordance to the Department and or Faculty guidelines and standards.

(b) University Service and Community engagement– the incumbent should participate in all Department, Faculty/School and University activities such as attending meetings, training workshops, conferences and seminars, among others.

(c) Research – the incumbent is expected to engage in active research in his/her area of specialization which benefits both the students and the University.

(d) Innovations – leading to tangible products and services 

(e) Industrialisation –through commercialisation of products

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS     

Post B: Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor/ Professor (1 Post)

Qualifications and experience 

• An Honours degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related from a recognized institution with at least a 2.1 pass.  
• A Master’s Degree in Statistics or related from a recognized institution.
• PhD or studying towards PhD a relevant field will be an added advantage
• Knowledge and/or experience in the use of at least two major statistical and mathematical packages like R-software, Python, Mathematica/Maple and Stata.

Duties and Responsibilities 

The candidate must be capable of supervising students’ research work, assess students on Work Related Learning and must be able to teach at least three of the following:

• Mathematical Finance
• Survival Models
• Machine Learning
• Stochastic Processes
• Spatial Statistics
• Bayesian Statistics

*NB: Midlands State University is an equal opportunities employer. In the interest of promoting gender parity, female candidates are encouraged to apply.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants must submit an application letter, certified copies of certificates, transcripts, national identification and Curriculum Vitae giving full personal particulars including full names, date of birth, qualifications, experience, present salary, date of availability, contact details, names and addresses of three referees addressed to the Deputy Registrar – Human Resource.

The application pack should be sent as a single merged pdf file to email address: academicrecruitment@staff.msu.ac.zw. The subject line should be labelled with the post being applied for.

* Important Notes:

• Applications that do not strictly adhere to the above submission guidelines will be automatically disqualified.

• Only shortlisted candidates shall be communicated to.

Closing date for applications is 12 August 2026. 

NB: Candidates who hold international qualifications are required to provide a ZIMCHE qualifications assessment report.