Faculty & Staff Portal

Resources, offices, and services for Deraya Faculty and Staff

Policies and Procedures

Policies are a support system that provides assistance in developing academic and personal skills including individualized academic support, academic advising, workshops, leadership, responsibility, and accountability.

Personalized academic support as they earn their college degree(s)

Stress management workshops

Provides a sense of belonging and a positive connection to Deraya

General Policies

Personalized academic support as they earn their college degree(s)

Stress management workshops

Provides a sense of belonging and a positive connection to Deraya

Provides a sense of belonging and a positive connection to Deraya

Departments & Services

Academic and Administrative Personnel

  • Academic and Administrative personnel recruitment and retention
  • Maintain personnel files containing credentials, evaluations, and correspondence
  • Document professional development and promotion decisions

Benefits

  • Payroll service in collaboration with the Accounting Division
  • Academic and Administrative benefits, overload, and deductions
  • Health insurance for all staff

Information Technology Office

  • Assist Staff with their IT needs, including the creation of Microsoft accounts and access to electronic services
  • Manage the distribution and collection of MyFi devices to all staff
  • Provide IT technical support to staff
  • Maintain and repair computer hardware
  • Manage classroom equipment such as projectors and smart boards
  • Schedule regular updates for operating systems and software products in offices and Labs

Teaching and Learning Center

  • Offer a series of teaching and learning workshops for incoming faculty and teaching assistants
  • Organize workshops and seminars as part of the professional development of teaching faculty
  • Develop teaching and learning guidelines in line with best practices
  • Provide support for the implementation of alternative pedagogy such as flipped classrooms and project-based learning
  • Design and implement programs in support of hybrid and experiential learning
  • Support the college in the integration of multimedia and electronic resources within the classroom

Faculty Housing

  • Manage students and Staff Housing
  • Ensuring the security and safety of students and staff within the university housing units
  • Maintaining clean, safe, and healthy residential buildings, and ensuring proper maintenance of all facilities
  • Evaluating occupancy rates in buildings, and recommending changes according to the needs of the university and students
  • Providing transportation to and from residential units in cooperation with the Department of Transport and Movement

Transportation Office

  • Organize transportation requests for faculty, staff, and students
  • Develop the policies, plans, and needs necessary to meet the transportation services to and from the university
  • Set transportation schedules, publish schedules, and buses routes
  • Monitoring and circulating traffic laws, rules, and regulations to drivers to ensure the safety of personnel and Buses

Public Relations Office

  • Provide conference and workshop management and organization services to all academic units
  • Organize the annual graduation ceremony in close collaboration with the academic colleges
  • Maintain close ties with community partners and collaborators such as local government services, clubs, restaurants, hospitals, and hotels
  • Coordinate community services activities, including medical and educational caravans
  • Assist Faculty & staff with travel requests, including transportation and accommodation provisions

Digital Marketing Office

  • Develop strategies for digital marketing
  • Plan and direct time-bound digital marketing campaigns to serve the key institutional needs based on the annual academic calendar
  • Approve and monitor all social media platforms representing the university, analyze and improve their performance
  • Maintain and develop the university`s brand and identity, and ensure its implementation across all platforms

Communication and Publication

  • Manage and Maintain the university website
  • Produce promotional materials
  • Publish student and staff handbooks, policies & procedures, magazines, and other non-technical publications
  • Publish and distribute textbooks

Maintenance and Engineering Office

  • Perform structural, electrical, and mechanical maintenance and repair of existing structures
  • Build new temporary structures

Facilities Management Office

  • Ensure proper execution of all building operations, including housekeeping, cleaning, kitchenette service
  • Flag maintenance requests and report them to the construction and Maintenance Division

Procurement Office

  • Identify and certify approved vendors
  • Process purchase requisitions and convert them into purchase orders
  • Process purchase orders and transfer the received goods to the central stores