Career Development and Deliverology Directorate

Haramaya University Career Development Services and Deliverology Directorate (CDSDD) was established in 2010 as Deliverology Unit. Its purpose was to facilitate and coordinate the seven Deliverology Strategic plans to improve the employability rates of annually graduated regular undergraduate programs. The current office name, Career Development Services and Deliverology Directorate (CDSDD), was restructured in 2013. The major objective of the office was to enhance the performances of students and academic staffs so as to attain quality education. To realize this, the office is working collaboratively with man power in academic programs and administrative offices in order to achieve the targets set by MoE. The very impotent works of CDSDD is to attain quality education working rigorously for enhanced teaching-learning process, instructors’ capacity building, students’ career and soft skills developments, and the applications of practical skills to make the graduates competent in the labor market. The detail activities of the office include the following.

•  Communication with MoE on innovative ideas, trainings, approaches, evaluations, materials, assessment, and policy issues, etc to realize the mission and vision of the university.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders like InfoMind Solution PlC and conducting  tracer studies, annual job expo, graduate employability training, instructors capacity building ’trainings, and to enhance other  key teaching-learning activities.
•   Working closely with college career service and career counselors, top management bodies, deans, directors, coordinators and other academic units of the University to achieve the strategic activities.
• Introducing new procedures and approaches in teaching-learning and offering trainings to advance the professional career of instructors and career development of the learners.
• Implementing innovative ideas and approaches from planning to implementation stages so as to deliver the activities and achieve of the expected outcomes.
• Giving training to some Haramaya Cluster universities in the areas of tracer studies, pedagogical knowledge (HDP), language skills (ELIC)& other teaching-learning activities.
• Providing consultations and trainings for academic and nonacademic staffs that are working directly or indirectly on the area of the strategic activities of the office.
• Conducting baseline and needs assessments surveys as means to identify gaps and to design capacity building trainings, consultative and collaborative workshop, and career events for further improvement.
• Conducting seminars and consultative workshops with internal and external stakeholders: Industry University Linkage Offices, MoE, AAQA, Ministry of labor and Skill,MoE, American Embassy, Ministry of labor and skill, British Council, Elsewedy Electric Cables Ethiopia and other relevant partner organizations to get the way forward.
• Reporting performance achievements of the office to HU Planning Office and promoting the office activities via annual research review days, university community days, university web pages, magazines, research briefs, and other possible platforms.
•   Facilitating, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of the activities and the impacts of the strategic activities of the office.