Lecturer in Development Economics

Job id: 086547. Wage: £43,205 – £50,585 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 19 March 2024. Cut-off date: 16 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: Social Science & Public Coverage. Division: Division of Worldwide Growth.

Contact particulars:Sarah Bracking. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Educational & Educating.

Job description

The Division of Worldwide Growth, King’s Faculty London, is a younger, revolutionary and modern Growth Research division. Our focus is on middle-income growing nations. The mission of the division is to discover the sources of success in addition to perceive the most important improvement challenges these nations proceed to face, with a concentrate on decreasing poverty and inequality and serving to to foster better wellbeing.  

The Division is looking for to nominate a Lecturer in Growth Economics for a one-year fastened interval of 15 months starting in September 2024. The profitable candidate could have a PhD in improvement economics or a carefully associated discipline. The submit holder shall be anticipated to show programs in Macroeconomics for Growth and Financial Inequality and the Distribution of Earnings to undergraduate college students with some extra undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation supervision duties. We welcome candidates with a powerful understanding of quantitative strategies, and a confirmed skill to show improvement economics at an completed degree. 

The profitable candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary departmental neighborhood presently engaged on a variety of subjects together with political economic system, inequality and poverty, gender rights, pure sources, worldwide commerce, migration, well being coverage, and different urgent points dealing with rising economies right now. The post-holder ought to show proof of related analysis and instructing and fulfil the necessities as set out under. 

This submit shall be accountable to the Head of the Division of Worldwide Growth. 

At King’s, we’re deeply dedicated to embedding good equality and variety observe into all of our actions in order that the college is an inclusive, welcoming and provoking place to work and examine, no matter age, incapacity, gender reassignment, marital standing, being pregnant and maternity, race, faith, intercourse or sexual orientation. King’s presents inclusive advantages to employees together with versatile working, Enhanced Parental Depart, funds for Dad and mom and Carers and the potential to affix neighborhood employees networks. 

This can be a full-time fastened time period submit (100% full time equal) for 15 months.

Key tasks

• To contribute to the instructing programme in Growth Economics.
• To contribute analysis, impression, information trade and postdoctoral analysis coaching in accordance with the priorities of the Division of Worldwide Growth.
• To undertake the supervision of postgraduate analysis, at Grasp’s and PhD ranges.
• To take a job within the planning, organisation and supply of instructing actions (each on-campus and on-line) inside the Division in accordance with established observe.
• To take part absolutely in evaluation and examination processes as applicable utilizing quite a lot of strategies and methods and supply efficient, well timed and applicable suggestions to college students to assist their studying.
• To help with difficulties encountered by college students, e.g. studying assist/issues.
• To interact in skilled improvement as applicable to replace expertise, and to assist instructing excellence.
• To simply accept tutorial duty inside the Division, involving departmental administrative tasks the place applicable.
• To undertake some other cheap duties that could be requested by the Head of Division.

The above checklist of tasks will not be exhaustive, and the submit holder shall be required to undertake such duties and tasks as could fairly be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the submit.

Expertise, information, and expertise 

Important standards

1.      PhD in improvement economics or a carefully associated self-discipline [e.g economics] 

2.      Demonstrable experience as utilized to middle-income nations  

3.      Skill to show quantitative analysis strategies 

4.      Proof by way of publications of a capability to supply work of their specialist discipline at a global customary  

5.      Demonstrable skill to design and ship instructing successfully at undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree, each on-campus (important) and on-line (fascinating) 

6.      Demonstrable dedication to equality, range and inclusion  

7.      Wonderful interpersonal expertise to develop and preserve good working relationships  

Fascinating standards

1.      Proof of buying aggressive analysis grants, or proof of potential to draw analysis funding  

2.      Proof of engagement with applicable analysis and coverage communities 

3.      Confirmed expertise of educational management applicable to profession degree, of collaborating with and influencing analysis customers, and of writing analysis proposals to exterior funding organisations 

Shortlisted candidates shall be invited to a presentation to the division and an interview. The submit is scheduled to begin in September 2024.