Durham University is one of the world’s leading universities, known for its world class research across four Faculties: Arts and Humanities, Business, Science and Social Sciences and Health. Listed as a top 5 UK and top 100 University (QS World University Rankings 2019), Durham is an extraordinary place in which to base your career. As part of our ambitious strategy we are growing and we look forward to welcoming your application.

We seek to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management at the Department of Management and Marketing, which is one of three ‘research-led’ departments that share the ambition to advance world changing knowledge and secure global impact through increasingly collaborative research across disciplines with colleagues in Durham University and beyond. As a department that is continuously seeking to develop challenges of both rigour and relevance, we publish our work in internationally outstanding journals and disseminate it beyond the academy.

Applicants must demonstrate research excellence in the field of Human Resource Management, with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to engage fully in the services, citizenship and values of the University. The University provides a working and teaching environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate these key principles as part of the assessment process.

Key responsibilities:

• Pursue research that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, commensurate with the School’s continuing emphasis on international excellence;
• To be developing clear plans for the pursuit of suitable national and international funding opportunities to support research and end-user engagement;
• Play a role in relevant teaching and research supervision, and contribute to ongoing curriculum development;
• Contribute to enhancing the quality of the research environment in the School, the wider University and beyond through collaborative research activity;
• Demonstrate a willingness to take contribute to the administrative work, citizenship and values of the School;
• Offer lectures, seminars, webinars, online facilitation and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, with the opportunity to teach more widely within the School, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment;
• To fully engage in and enhance the values of the School;
• To contribute to attracting and supervising research students, and to enhance the Department’s commitment to its vibrant and international postgraduate culture.
• Carry out such other duties as specified by the Head of Department.

The successful applicant will join the School in Summer 2020. As we are advertising a number of posts within the School, applicants should clearly state in their application which post they wish to be considered for.

Deadline: 11^th November 2019 (12 pm midday)

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