Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, you will be responsible for contributing to an exceptional student experience through the delivery of teaching, research, knowledge exchange and business and enterprise engagement activity. The successful applicant will join a vibrant community of academics within HRM Subject Group who deliver learning material and conduct research in the broad area of Human Resource Management. You should be able to develop, lead and contribute to teaching in the area of Employment Relations (and Industrial Relations) at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This includes development of tutorial/seminars, along with managing the team that delivers these sessions. There will be opportunities for involvement in other subject areas, but capacity to teach and lead teaching in Employment Relations is critical. Being active in research and having ambitious research goals (to include developing research bids) is highly desirable (the Department has a strong research output). The HRM Subject Group is a cohesive and inclusive group whose members are supportive and collaborate with each other in both teaching and research.

This post is advertised across our Assistant Professor and Lecturer roles. Colleagues appointed into our Lecturer grade are usually early career academics who are supported through their probationary period to develop their academic profile. The selection panel will assess your application and discuss with you which role you are being considered for at selection and appointment stages.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Working within the Department of Leadership and HRM, you will join a team of highly qualified academics with a passion for enhancing the student experience through their research expertise. You will contribute to research informed and technology enabled learning and teaching on our contemporary suites of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, which include: Business Management Foundation year, BA Business and Human Resource Management, MSc Global Human Resource Management and MSc Business and Management programmes at all levels. In addition to teaching, you will undertake research and scholarly activities, contributing to the Faculty's research profile and REF submission, together with contributing to consultancy, enterprise, and other income generation and business development activities.

ABOUT YOU

Applicants should hold a doctoral qualification (Assistant Professor) or exceptionally soon to be qualified (Lecturer) and have demonstrable specialist expert knowledge and subject expertise in a relevant subject discipline.

Experience of designing, delivering, and assessing high quality teaching and learning practice as well as evidence of high-quality research outputs are essential.

Further information is available in the Lecturer and Assistant Professor person specifications. If you are having issues accessing the role descriptions, please email [email protected] .

Informal enquires about the role can be made to Deputy Head of the Department of Leadership and HRM, Dr Yevhen Baranchenko [email protected]

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance .

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV. Please ensure your CV includes research / education statements, and grants and publications list highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of four. For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount, and your role. In addition, you are asked to provide copies of the top two research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio).

ABOUT US

Northumbria University is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all. We change lives regionally, nationally, and internationally through education and research, tackling the global challenges of our age to transform society and the economy. Find out why we were named Times Higher Education's University of the Year in 2022.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 in the UK for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience. Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more .

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Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Values and Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include our City and Coach Lane Campuses in Newcastle upon Tyne and our London campus.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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