Lecturer in International Development

Job id: 086546. Wage: £51,974 – £61,021 every 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: Tutorial & Educating.

Job description

The Division of Worldwide Growth, King’s Faculty London, is a younger, revolutionary and modern division, with a give attention to middle-income growing international locations. The mission of the division is to discover the sources of success in addition to perceive the key improvement challenges these international locations proceed to face. We even have a robust give attention to 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 excellent early profession profile of publications and grant seize, with a superb report of educating and administration. We’re looking for a specialist in worldwide improvement who’s focussed on how we make higher futures with folks, which embody social and financial justice. We welcome candidates from any foundational social science self-discipline inside the worldwide improvement discipline, in addition to interdisciplinary students. We welcome candidates with an space focus. Our profitable candidate might be methodologically proficient inside their self-discipline and clearly focussed on how improvement analysis and apply can contribute to raised futures of wellbeing and social justice, maybe utilizing machine studying, digital know-how and superior modelling expertise.  

The profitable candidate could 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 educating in worldwide improvement and fulfil the necessities as set out beneath. 

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

At King’s, we’re deeply dedicated to embedding good equality and variety apply 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 gives inclusive advantages to employees together with versatile working, Enhanced Parental Depart, funds for Dad and mom and Carers and the potential to hitch group employees networks. 

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

Key obligations

• To undertake and publish high-quality analysis in line with the Division’s analysis technique, and to contribute to affect, information change and postdoctoral analysis coaching.
• To take an energetic function in looking for funding for analysis actions and initiatives, 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 educating actions (each on-campus and on-line) inside the Division in accordance with established apply.
• To take part absolutely within the design, evaluation and examination processes in respect to Worldwide Growth educating within the Division of Worldwide Growth.
• To have interaction in skilled improvement as acceptable to replace expertise, and to help educating excellence.
• To just accept educational duty inside the Division, involving departmental administrative obligations the place acceptable.
• To undertake every other affordable duties which may be requested by the Head of Division.

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

Expertise, information, 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 discipline at a world commonplace.  

3.      Demonstrable skill to design and ship educating 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 surroundings, with refined and collegial interpersonal expertise 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 acceptable analysis and coverage communities 

3.      Confirmed expertise of educational management acceptable to profession degree, and of collaborating with and influencing analysis customers. 

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