Lecturer in International Development

Job id: 086546. Wage: £51,974 – £61,021 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 Growth.

Contact particulars:Sarah Bracking. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Tutorial & Instructing.

Job description

The Division of Worldwide Growth, King’s School London, is a younger, revolutionary and up to date division, with a concentrate on middle-income creating nations. The mission of the division is to discover the sources of success in addition to perceive the key improvement challenges these nations proceed to face. We even have a robust concentrate on social and financial justice and understanding how change for the higher occurs, each now and for the longer term. 

The Division is looking for to nominate a Lecturer in Worldwide Growth. We’re looking for a candidate who has an impressive early profession profile of publications and grant seize, with a superb document of instructing and administration. We’re looking for a specialist in worldwide improvement who’s focussed on how we make higher futures with individuals, which embody social and financial justice. We welcome candidates from any foundational social science self-discipline inside the worldwide improvement subject, in addition to interdisciplinary students. We welcome candidates with an space focus. Our profitable candidate can be methodologically proficient inside their self-discipline and clearly focussed on how improvement analysis and observe can contribute to higher futures of wellbeing and social justice, maybe utilizing machine studying, digital know-how and superior modelling abilities.  

The profitable candidate may have a PhD in a related improvement research self-discipline and can be a part of an interdisciplinary staff presently working in a variety of areas together with political economic system, inequality and poverty, gender rights, local weather change and pure assets, worldwide commerce, migration, and social. gender and racial justice. The post-holder ought to reveal proof of high-quality related analysis and instructing in worldwide improvement and fulfil the necessities as set out under. 

This publish can 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 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 gives inclusive advantages to workers together with versatile working, Enhanced Parental Depart, funds for Mother and father and Carers and the potential to affix neighborhood workers networks. 

This can be a full-time indefinite publish (100% full time equal).

Key tasks

• To undertake and publish high-quality analysis in keeping with the Division’s analysis technique, and to contribute to affect, data change and postdoctoral analysis coaching.
• To take an lively position in looking for funding for analysis actions and tasks, for instance from the AHRC, ESRC or ERC.
• 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 totally within the design, evaluation and examination processes in respect to Worldwide Growth instructing within the Division of Worldwide Growth.
• To interact in skilled improvement as applicable to replace abilities, and to assist instructing excellence.
• To simply accept tutorial accountability inside the Division, involving departmental administrative tasks the place applicable.
• To undertake some other affordable duties that could be requested by the Head of Division.

The above record of tasks will not be exhaustive, and the publish holder can be required to undertake such duties and tasks as could moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the publish.

Abilities, data, and expertise 

Important standards

1.      PhD in a related social science topic as utilized to improvement. 

2.      Proof via publications of a capability to provide work of their specialist subject at a global commonplace.  

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

4.      Demonstrable dedication to and/or expertise of working in a multi-disciplinary setting, with refined and collegial interpersonal abilities to develop and preserve good working relationships 

5.      Demonstrable dedication to equality, range and inclusion  

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, and of collaborating with and influencing analysis customers. 

Shortlisted candidates can be invited to a presentation to the division and an interview. The publish is scheduled to begin in September 2024, or sooner as handy for the candidate.