The Board of Administrators of the
University of Namur announces the vacancy of a
Full-time Teaching & Research Assistant Position in Service Management/Marketing
(PhD-track Position)
Deadline: July 21st, 2019
Starting Date: September 1st, 2019 (or October 1st)
Faculty: Faculty of Economics, Social Sciences and Business Administration
Departments: full-time in the Department of Business Administration
Status: assistant (research & teaching)
Contract: 2 year fixed-term contract, renewable twice
Personnel Category: scientific members
References: #168-02
Academic environment
The University of Namur welcomes near 7.000 students every year to its 60 bachelor, master, and doctoral study programs. Of the University’s 1.200 employees, more than 700 actively contribute to research, through 64 research laboratories and centers. The Faculty of economics, social sciences and business administration accounts for near 1400 students and 170 staff members, among whom 85 academic and 70 scientific members. The Faculty offers full-time and part-time bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in management and economics. It also organises programs in political sciences and communication studies. Its members undertake research in various fields of expertise.
The candidate will be part of the Department of Business Administration. The Department of Business Administration has 60 full- and part-time academic and research staff. The Department offers bachelor, master, and doctoral programs, with a particular focus on topics in finance, services management, marketing, and information and operations management. Research is organized through five research centers, and concentrates on the said topics. The Department actively collaborates with many national and international institutions and companies, through research projects, seminars, consultancy and student internships.
Job description
The position involves, in equal parts, teaching and research duties. Teaching (in the field of management and marketing and, more specifically in the field of service management/marketing) will be carried out within the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Research will be undertaken in service management/marketing within one of the research centers of the Faculty and within one of the research institutes of the University (e.g., NADI, Namur Digital Institute).
Requirements
The applicant holds or will hold by the end of June 2019 (or by the end of September 2019 with in that case a starting date on October 1st, 2019) a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Management or in Economics (or equivalent), and is expected to have excelled in his/her curriculum (degree obtained with honours). S/he has a good command of spoken and written French and English. S/he must display excellent teaching skills. S/he wants and is able to develop an original research programme likely to lead to a doctoral degree in Economics and Management supervised by a member of the Department of Business Administration.
Applications
The application form can be downloaded from the University of Namur website (http://www.unamur.be/universite/jobs/). The filled out form (in PDF format) should be returned before July 21st, 2019 by e-mail at candidature@unamur.be, with a curriculum vitae, a short description in English of a future or past research (e.g., master’s thesis) and a motivation letter for the position, which includes teaching and research duties. The full file must also be sent by e-mail to Prof. Oscar BERNAL, Head of the Department of Business Administration (oscar.bernal@unamur.be). Nominated candidates will be invited to a meeting with the members of the selection committee within one month of the deadline for submission of applications. More details will be announced later.
Additional information
Prof. Oscar BERNAL (Head of the Business Administration Department), +32 81 724879, oscar.bernal@unamur.be.
All practical information needed by foreign candidates can be obtained from the website of the European researchers’ mobility portal (EURAXESS): https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/.
