The Role
Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.
We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Economics. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of Masters’ and PhD students.
The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The successful candidate will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.
Maynooth’s Department of Economics offers an attractive workplace to academics who wish to carry out their world-class research in an environment where excellence in teaching is valued. The Department is gender balanced, international in membership and outlook, and has a strongly collegiate ethos.
The Department seeks applications from excellent researchers in any field of Economics to cover a period of maternity leave.
Principal Duties
Teaching:
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching duties are assigned by the Head of the Department. The duties will include:
* Teaching and assessing students at undergraduate level. This may include lecturing, tutoring, leading practical learning activities, project supervision, and setting, supervising and grading assessments;
* Teaching, supervising and assessing postgraduate students, including lecturing, leading seminars and other learning activities, supervision of student research activities, and setting, supervising and grading assessments;
* Enhancing and innovating in teaching and assessment practice;
* Contributing as required, to the assurance and enhancement of teaching quality;
* Outreach and promotional activities and the recruitment and selection of undergraduate and post-graduate students;
* Developing and enhancing the curriculum;
* Designing and delivering new courses.
For further details including full comprehensive job description please see reference number 035002 on the Maynooth University vacancies page via the 'Apply' button above.
€64,112 to €101,524 p.a. (7 points) or €41,682 – €71,285 p.a. (14 points)
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