Lecturer in Development Economics

Job title:

Lecturer in Improvement Economics

Firm

King’s Faculty London

Job description

Job id: 086547. Wage: £43,205 – £50,585 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.Posted: 19 March 2024. Deadline: 16 April 2024.Enterprise unit: Social Science & Public Coverage. Division: Division of Worldwide Improvement.Contact particulars: Sarah Bracking. sarah.bracking@kcl.ac.ukLocation: Strand Campus. Class: Tutorial & Instructing.Job descriptionThe Division of Worldwide Improvement, King’s Faculty London, is a younger, revolutionary and up to date Improvement Research division. Our focus is on middle-income growing international locations. The mission of the division is to discover the sources of success in addition to perceive the main improvement challenges these international locations proceed to face, with a concentrate on lowering poverty and inequality and serving to to foster larger wellbeing.The Division is in search of to nominate a Lecturer in Improvement Economics for a one-year mounted interval of 15 months starting in September 2024. The profitable candidate could have a PhD in improvement economics or a intently associated subject. The submit holder can be anticipated to show programs in Macroeconomics for Improvement and Financial Inequality and the Distribution of Earnings to undergraduate college students with some further 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 stage.The profitable candidate will be a part of an interdisciplinary departmental neighborhood at the moment engaged on a variety of subjects together with political economic system, inequality and poverty, gender rights, pure assets, worldwide commerce, migration, well being coverage, and different urgent points dealing with rising economies in the present day. The post-holder ought to display proof of related analysis and instructing and fulfil the necessities as set out beneath.This submit can be accountable to the Head of the Division of Worldwide Improvement.At King’s, we’re deeply dedicated to embedding good equality and variety follow into all of our actions in order that the college is an inclusive, welcoming and galvanizing 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 workers together with versatile working, Enhanced Parental Go away, funds for Dad and mom and Carers and the potential to hitch neighborhood workers networks.This can be a full-time mounted time period submit (100% full time equal) for 15 months.Key duties

• To contribute to the instructing programme in Improvement Economics.
• To contribute analysis, impression, data change and postdoctoral analysis coaching in accordance with the priorities of the Division of Worldwide Improvement.
• 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 follow.
• To take part totally in evaluation and examination processes as applicable utilizing quite a lot of strategies and strategies 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 have interaction in skilled improvement as applicable to replace expertise, and to assist instructing excellence.
• To just accept tutorial duty inside the Division, involving departmental administrative duties the place applicable.
• To undertake some other affordable duties which may be requested by the Head of Division.

The above checklist of duties is probably not exhaustive, and the submit holder can be required to undertake such duties and duties as might moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the submit.Abilities, data, and expertiseImportant standards1. PhD in improvement economics or a intently associated self-discipline [e.g economics]2. Demonstrable experience as utilized to middle-income international locations3. Capability to show quantitative analysis strategies4. Proof by way of publications of a capability to supply work of their specialist subject at a world normal5. Demonstrable skill to design and ship instructing successfully at undergraduate and/or postgraduate stage, each on-campus (important) and on-line (fascinating)6. Demonstrable dedication to equality, variety and inclusion7. Wonderful interpersonal expertise to develop and preserve good working relationshipsFascinating standards1. Proof of buying aggressive analysis grants, or proof of potential to draw analysis funding2. Proof of engagement with applicable analysis and coverage communities3. Confirmed expertise of educational management applicable to profession stage, of collaborating with and influencing analysis customers, and of writing analysis proposals to exterior funding organisationsAdditional infoShortlisted candidates can be invited to a presentation to the division and an interview. The submit is scheduled to begin in September 2024.

Anticipated wage

£43205 – 50585 per yr

Location

Strand, Central London

Job date

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:02:45 GMT

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