The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is the oldest university in the country. It began as an affiliate college of the University of London in October 1961. At the time, it only had the Faculty of Law (currently the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law), which started with only fourteen students and three faculty members. In 1963, the College became a constituent college of the University of East Africa, a transformation that went hand-in-hand with the expansion of its scope, that is, the number of academic programmes grew from a single degree programme (Bachelor of Laws that was established in 1961) to five-degree programmes by 1969. In 1970, the University of East Africa was dissolved, and thus the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the University of Nairobi in Kenya and Makerere University in Uganda were constituted as independent universities in their respective countries.
Gradually, the UDSM grew, especially regarding the scope of its academic programmes and disciplines. By 1996, the UDSM had grown into an all-round university, offering all the major traditional university disciplines, including the Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical and Biological Sciences, Medicine, Agriculture, Commerce and Management, Engineering, Lands and Architectural Studies, and Journalism. This comprehensive “package" was purposely designed and helped generate the required human capital for the young nations to effectively address all the major development challenges it was facing, a triad of Ignorance, Poverty, and Diseases.
The University of Dar es Salaam invites applications from suitably qualified Tanzanians to be considered for immediate employment to fill 48 academic vacant posts as follows: