PILLAR IV: RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Resource development is one of the most important pillars in the strategic plan of any university. It helps both the academic and management staff to develop their skills, knowledge, and abilities, which leads to improving the university’s effectiveness as an academic institution. This can be achieved by establishing a systematic management plan to easily deliver the objectives of the university and to allow excellent self-sustaining financial resources to support this process.

One of the main goals of Koya University is to properly achieve its main missions through a skillful management system that depends on modern management techniques, which benefit from a precise database and a high-quality management information system.

Koya University aims to increase its financial income by diversifying its resources and revenues. Diversification can be fulfilled by designing a reliable strategic plan and maintaining a strong relationship with the Ministry of Higher Education, while also creating special committees to work with the private sector and international and local organizations to obtain funds and grants needed to support research and projects at the university. To support all the university operations, we work to develop a self-sustainable financial system, improve our financial database, and activate university bank services. This allows the university to offer health assurances to its staff, create training programs for university and non-university staff, implement small service projects on the university campus, renovate the facilities in a way that meets modern standards, and open new academic departments and programs.

OBJECTIVE 1: Improve Human Resources and Management Staff Performance and Efficiency

STRATEGIES:

1. Improving the performance of academic, management staff, and senior managers

• Offer university-run training programs for managers and employees at the university.
• Partner with relevant organizations to provide vocational and management training courses to university staff who need them.
• Develop and implement a system based on key performance indicators and operational indicators to measure the performance of faculty, staff, and administrative members.

2. Implement management system development

• Review and update the job description for every position available at the university.

• Create a system that accurately assesses the skills and performance of all employees.

3. Focus on Human Resources (HR) development

• Reorganize the overall structure of the university management staff.
• Create a detailed list of HR staff job titles.
• Develop an annual feedback form to assess employees’ conduct and performance.

• Task special HR committees with hiring new full-time and part-time employees.
• Prioritize employing Koya University graduates.

4. Coordinate with the university digitization team to improve the human resources and management database system

• Create a new database system for all the staff members at the university.
• Digitize the staff members’ personal profiles and paper archives.
• Improve university online services and continuously update the university staff on management applications.
• Offer special training courses for database administrators.

5. Develop a reliable digital management system

• Establish an Administrative Staff Quality Assurance Office for improving employee management and enhancing their performance.
• Creating a digital platform to administer both management and academic staff transactions and documentation.
• Implement new service projects to enhance the performance of managing the routine of non-university staff documentation and transactions.

OBJECTIVE 2: Increase Financial Resources

STRATEGIES:

1. Create and improve the financial system database

• Develop an effective financial system that links all the financial systems used by Koya University faculties.
• Link the new financial system to the banking system of the Koya University Bank to manage all university financial transactions.

2. Establish a self-sustaining financial system

• Coordinate with the Ministry of Higher Education to enable the University Consultancy Offices and Research Centers to issue instructions and guides in relevant fields.
• Partner with vocational consultancy organizations.

3. Secure more grants and funds to diversify the university’s financial income

• Obtain grants from public and private sector organizations.
• Encourage the university staff to apply for national and international funds
• Establish an Advancement Office to raise funds for university development projects
• Establish new commercial projects on the university campus.