Lecturer in Management

Salary:

Lecturer Grade F: £33,966 to £44,263 per annum, pro rata

Lecturer Grade G: £45,585 to £54,395 per annum, pro rata

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 03 July 2024

The Role

You will join a dynamic and vibrant Leadership, Work and Organization (LWO) Subject Group that is committed to collegiality and academic citizenship. We are a globally connected, locally rooted and compassionate community that embraces diversity and advances challenges of social justice through our research, scholarship, and engagement with partners, to achieve a lasting impact from our management education. You will complement LWO’s existing expertise and enhance the thematic areas of interest of our Management and Organisation or our Work, Employment and HRM research and scholarship communities.

We are seeking a passionate scholar in the management field. Your passion will come across in your teaching and support for the student experience at all levels as well as in your commitment to engaging with communities beyond the University. The role holder will contribute to teaching and assessment across a range of UG and PG modules in the broad management/HR field, as well as undertaking dissertation supervision.

For this T&S role, you must have; a relevant professional qualification, Masters degree or a PhD in a relevant subject (or a PhD near completion – i.e. strictly within three months of submission), and a strong scholarly profile or trajectory. You must also be able to demonstrate teaching and scholarship excellence in Management.

The University has developed an Academic Job Summary Guidance document which summarises the range of activities that academic staff may be expected to perform.

The position is 0.6FTE (on a flexible basis) and fixed term, to begin as soon as possible but ending 31st March, 2026.

Informal enquiries about this position can be made to Dr Elizabeth Alexander at elizabeth.alexander@ncl.ac.uk  

Newcastle University Business School is located in Newcastle City Centre and at the gateway to the Newcastle Helix, a £350million partnership between Newcastle University, Newcastle City Council and Legal and General, where business meets Science.

Newcastle University is a Russell Group institution and the Newcastle University Business School is home to 4000 students and is one of an elite group of Business Schools worldwide to hold triple accreditation from the three internationally recognised accreditation bodies: AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS. This is testament to our reputation for our world leading Research and Teaching.

For more information about Newcastle University Business School, please visit our website https://www.ncl.ac.uk/business-school/

Key Accountabilities

• To have a commitment to high quality teaching and learning and student support
• Provide high quality research-led teaching of modules within the Business School
• Coach and support students throughout their studies in the role of personal tutor
• Mark assessment of modules in accordance with University standards and utilise on-line and digitised curricula and education frameworks
• Contribute to curriculum development
• Contribute to the scholarly and practice profile of the Business School by engaging in scholarly research and activities, impact and practice
• Demonstrate impact by developing practice-based solutions to real-world problems, produce scholarly outputs and engage with external stakeholders to develop the impact of your work and the life of the School
• Provide education for life, that engages, challenges and supports our students to discover and fulfil their potential both while they are studying with us and once they have graduated
• Contribute to the Business School’s Triple Accreditation and Professional Body Accreditations
• Operate as an active citizen in the Business School community

The Person 

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Evidence of the ability to provide an outstanding educational experience, rooted in strong disciplinary knowledge of applied management practice that engages, challenges, and inspires our students
• Evidence of or potential for internationalising the curricula
• Make effective use of technology to enhance learning
• Evidence of effective use of discplinary and proactive scholarship and a developing scholarly and practice national profile
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent organisational, time management and presentation skills
• Demonstration of successful team working and operating as an effective colleague
• Evidence of academic citizenship
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and ethics, responsibility and sustainability

Qualifications

• A good Honours degree in a relevant subject
• At least one of the following: (i) a relevant professional qualification or Masters degree; (ii) a PhD (or equivalent) at or near completion – i.e. strictly within three months of submission, in a relevant management discipline.
• A profile with currency which meets external accreditation bodies criteria

Desirable

• Professional Body Membership as appropriate to the Subject area 

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 27315