Every contract.
Every credit hour.
Every signature.
Lectern is the part-time faculty contract platform designed in Monrovia for Liberian universities — from course assignment to final paycheck. Multi-stage approval (Chair → Dean → HR → Finance), digital signatures, salary computation per credit hour, payroll integration, audit trail forever.
A part-time instructor deserves software that pays them on time.
Every semester, Liberian universities draft hundreds of part-time faculty contracts on Word documents, route them by email between four offices, lose the signed copy somewhere between the Dean's desk and HR's filing cabinet, and end up paying the instructor late, twice, or not at all. By semester-end nobody can find the original contract. By tax season nobody can audit who taught what.
One platform.
Fourteen modules.
One signature trail.
Lectern exists to close that gap. A single platform — from the moment a department chair drafts the offer to the moment the bank receives the final pay run — every approval signed, every signature timestamped, every audit row preserved forever.
From offer to paycheck, in one trail.
Every contract walks the same path. Every approver leaves a timestamp, comments, and a digital signature. By the time payroll runs, nothing has to be re-keyed.
Dept. Chair
Course, credit hours, instructor, semester, rate per hour — all in one form.
Dept. Chair signs
Verifies course assignment and credit hour count. Comments visible to next approver.
Dean signs
College-level approval. Dean sees only contracts from their own college.
HR officer signs
Verifies salary calculation against per-credit-hour rate. Stamps the institution's official HR signature on the PDF.
Payroll run
Approved contract flows into the payroll cycle. Monthly pay computed automatically.
Sealed PDF
Final contract PDF — instructor + college + HR signatures — emailed to instructor and archived.
Fourteen modules, one platform.
Every module a part-time faculty programme needs — from the academic catalogue to the bank deposit. Designed in Monrovia for the way Liberian universities actually run.
Academic structure
Colleges, departments, course catalogue, faculty hierarchy. Dean visibility scoped to their own college.
Faculty registry
Full instructor records — full name, email, phone, department, address. Cross-semester history preserved.
Course catalogue
Course codes, titles, credit hours, prerequisites. One source of truth for every contract drafted.
Multi-course offers
One contract can hold multiple courses — Course 1, Course 2, Course 3 — each with its own section, room, rate.
Multi-stage workflow
Department Chair → Dean → HR → Finance. Comments visible across stages. Reject + revise loops.
Digital HR signature
Auto-stamped institutional HR signature on every approved contract. Watermarked, dated, audit-anchored.
Per-credit-hour compute
Configurable per-credit-hour rate. System computes total contract value and monthly pay automatically.
Monthly pay runs
Approved contracts roll into the payroll cycle. Bulk payslip generation, bank export, deductions.
Inline revisions
Every approver can leave threaded comments. Instructor sees feedback if revisions are requested.
Sealed archive
Every signed contract archived as a PDF. Searchable by semester, college, instructor, course code.
Email & SMS
Instructors notified when their contract is drafted, approved, paid. Approvers notified when contracts await them.
Director's view
Open contracts per stage, total semester pay, top departments, instructors served. Drill-down to every contract.
Granular access
Chair, Dean, HR, Finance, Instructor, Administrator — every role sees only what their position permits.
Compliance-grade
Every change tracked: who, when, what record, from where. Forever-retention. Auditors leave smiling.
Software with a Monrovia accent.
Lectern is not a contract platform imported from somewhere else. It was designed line by line for the way Liberian universities — UMU, AMEU, LIU, Cuttington, Stella Maris and others — actually run their semesters.
Liberian semester rhythm
Semesters, breaks, exam weeks aligned to the Liberian academic calendar. Not a US fall/spring template forced to fit.
LRD and USD as twins
Faculty paid in LRD, some in USD, mixed payroll runs. Lectern treats dual currency as the default — not a foreign-exchange add-on.
Multi-college, one institution
UMU's College of Liberal Arts, College of Health Sciences, etc. — each scoped to its own Dean, all rolling up to one HR & one Finance.
Works through the power cuts
Local-first architecture. Department chairs draft contracts during outages; the system reconciles when the line returns.
Tax-ready exports
Year-end faculty payment summaries formatted for the Liberia Revenue Authority — no spreadsheet acrobatics at tax time.
Local support, on campus
Implementation, training, and audit support from a Monrovia team. We come to your campus before the semester starts.
Priced for your institution.
Every plan includes every module — always. Rather than force your institution into a fixed tier, we agree pricing directly with each university, based on your active contracts and needs. Setup, training, and data migration are included. Tell us about your institution and we'll prepare a tailored quote — in LRD or USD.
Things deans ask first.
How long does onboarding take?
Most universities go live in 21 days. On-site visit week 1, faculty data migration + training week 2, dry-run a real semester week 3.
Can we import our existing faculty records?
Yes — from Excel, the registrar's database, or paper records. Migration is included with every deployment.
What if an approval is rejected mid-flow?
The contract returns to the previous stage with the rejection comment visible. The chair revises, re-submits, and the approval chain continues.
Does Lectern integrate with our existing payroll?
Yes — Lectern exports approved contract payroll in a format compatible with most payroll systems, or it can run payroll natively for institutions without one.
Who can see what?
Page-level RBAC. A Dept Chair sees only contracts they drafted. A Dean sees only their college's contracts. HR sees everything for the institution. Finance sees only approved contracts.
Can the institution's HR signature image be customised?
Yes — upload the HR officer's scanned signature once and it auto-stamps every approved contract PDF. Versioned for when HR leadership changes.
Last semester I spent four weekends signing contracts. This semester I spent forty-five minutes.— Dean of Information Technology college · United Methodist university
Bring Lectern to your university.
A 30-minute walkthrough — your laptop, our software, real Liberian semester contracts. Quote, plan, go-live date, all in 30 minutes.
✻ IF YOU CAN THINK IT, WE CAN BUILD IT ✻