Job title: Assistant Professor in Marketing/International Business (Education)    
Vacancy reference: MGMT23-9
Department: Management and Marketing
Responsible to: Head of Department
Salary Range: Grade 7 £35,333 - £42,155 per annum
Grade 8 £43,414 - £51,805 per annum
Working arrangements: The role is full-time, but we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements including potential job shares
Open date: 12 December 2022
Closing date: 27 January 2023  at Midnight (UK)          
Preferred start date: Successful candidates will ideally be in post by 1 September 2023

Working at Durham University

As one of the UK’s leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career while enjoying a high-quality work/life balance. We are home to some of the most talented scholars and researchers from around the world who are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

Find out more about the benefits of working at the University and what it is like to live and work in the Durham area on our Why Durham? information page.

A competitive salary is only one part of the many fantastic benefits you will receive if you join the University: you will also receive access to the following Total Rewards – Grade 7 and Grade 8.  

Durham University Business School

Dynamic and vibrant, Durham University Business School is one of Durham University’s four Faculties and is comprised of four research-intensive departments: Accounting, Economics, Finance, and Management and Marketing. Known for its global reputation, its impact on policy and practice and its strong focus on ethics, responsibility and sustainability, the School aims to be a leading European business school with a strong global presence by 2027. The School currently has  circa 200 academic and teaching staff, with plans and resource commitments to grow to 230 by 2027. In addition, 12 funded research centres (https://www.dur.ac.uk/business/research/research-centres/) blend leading theoretical perspectives with a strong emphasis on impact and engagement with practice, noted in www.durham.ac.uk/business. The school’s student population is around 4000, across undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes.

Our vision is to lead business thought and practice to improve global wealth and well-being. Our associated mission is to create, share and use knowledge to deliver equitable and sustainable futures around the world. We pursue this mission by advancing world changing knowledge and securing global impact through increasingly collaborative research across disciplines and around the world.

The Department

The Department of Management and Marketing at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor (Education). We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of Marketing/International Business and we are particularly eager to hear from applicants with a focus on,but not limited to, the following areas:

• Online/digital marketing
• Services
• Marketing
• Global Marketing
• International Business
• Emerging market MNEs
• Exporting

Although an interest in global marketing/IB is appreciated, we also encourage colleagues with a general research interest in marketing to apply].

This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our Department pages at Management and Marketing - Durham University Business School. 

Assistant Professors (Education) at Durham

Assistant Professors (Education) contribute to teaching, innovation and citizenship whilst fully focussing on the key skills which will secure their progression.  Teaching quality and innovation is critical to ensure a first-class learning environment and curricula for all of our students. You will be supported to develop your teaching expertise and to engage in teaching innovation to embed our student experience.

Assistant Professors (Education) are encouraged to engage in wider citizenship to enhance their own development, to support their department and wider discipline, and to contribute to the wider student experience.

You will be expected to engage in scholarship related to pedagogy, noting that any other independent research (beyond pedagogy) is not part of this post. The appointment will be on the University’s ‘Education Track’ career path, which provides clearly defined opportunities for progression against defined criteria.

We are confident that our recruitment process allows us to attract and select the best international talent to Durham. We therefore offer a reduced probation period of 1 year for our Assistant Professors (Education) and thereafter, subject to satisfactory performance, your position will be confirmed as permanent

Assistant Professor in Marketing/International Business

Applicants must demonstrate teaching excellence in the field of Marketing/International Business, with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University.   The University provides a working and teaching environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate these key principles as part of the assessment process.

While Grade 7 candidates may have limited direct experience of the requirements for the post, they must outline their experience, skills and achievements to date which demonstrate that they meet or that they have the potential to achieve the essential criteria. The post will involve a significant teaching load, which may extend into the summer period.

Key responsibilities:

• To deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, with the opportunity to teach more widely within the Department, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment;
• Engagement in pedagogic activity at Departmental level that supports a high quality, academic professional community of practice within the Department and beyond;
• Maintain an active membership and engagement with a professional body (e.g. HEA or discipline-specific bodies);
• Contribute to ongoing curriculum development, demonstrating innovation in educational practice to enhance the quality of the educational environment in the Department and wider University in support of the Department’s continuing emphasis on international excellence;
• Demonstrate a willingness to contribute to the administrative work, citizenship and values of the Department;
• To fully engage in and enhance the values of the Department with regard to its commitment to its vibrant and international postgraduate culture;
• Carry out such other duties as specified by the Head of Department.

Durham University is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion

Our collective aim is to create an open and inclusive environment where everyone can reach their full potential and we believe our staff should reflect the diversity of the global community in which we work.

As a University equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are a key part of the University’s Strategy and a central part of everything we do. We also live by our values and our Staff Code of Conduct. At Durham we actively work towards providing an environment where our staff and students can study, work and live in a community which is supportive and inclusive. It’s important to us that all of our colleagues are aligned to both our values and commitment to EDI.

We welcome and encourage applications from members of groups who are under-represented in our work force including disabled people, women, and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

We are committed to equality: if for any reason you have taken a career break or periods of leave that may have impacted on the volume and recency of research outputs, such as maternity, adoption or parental leave, you may wish to disclose this in your application.  We also understand that the Covid-19 pandemic will have had differential impacts on different people and welcome information on this if you wish to share it. The selection committee will recognise that this may have reduced the quantity of your research accordingly

The University has been awarded the Disability Confident Employer status. If you are a candidate with a disability, we are committed to ensuring fair treatment throughout the recruitment process. We will make adjustments to support the interview process wherever it is reasonable to do so and, where successful, reasonable adjustments will be made to support people within their role.

Person Specification

Education

Candidates must demonstrate the development and delivery of high-quality teaching that contributes to providing a supportive and enabling learning environment and curricula which encourage students to achieve their potential.

Candidates applying for a grade 8 post should meet all the essential criteria.

Essential Education Criteria – Grade 7

• Qualifications - - a good first degree and a PhD in Marketing/International Business or a related subject (which for grade 7 candidates must either have passed their PhD viva or submitted their PhD thesis for examination by the closing date for applications or equivalent demonstrable practitioner experience and skills which may include appropriate certification and/or membership of a relevant professional body.
• Quality - Experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrates the ability or the potential to deliver high quality effective and engaging teaching. (Candidates may choose to provide student evaluation scores and/or peer reviews of teaching).
• Innovation – experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrate of the ability or the potential to contribute to new programme development and innovate in the design and delivery of high quality teaching or assessment of learning including lectures, small group learning and/or using technology or other techniques to enhance learning and/or assessment. 
• Strategic - experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrate of the ability or the potential to engage in the design of excellent teaching programmes which are research informed and led.

Essential Education Criteria – Grade 8

• Qualifications - - a good first degree and a PhD in Marketing/International Business or a related subject (which for grade 7 candidates must either have passed their PhD viva or submitted their PhD thesis for examination by the closing date for applications or equivalent demonstrable practitioner experience and skills which may include appropriate certification and/or membership of a relevant professional body.
• Quality - evidence of the development and delivery of effective and engaging teaching. (Candidates may choose to provide student evaluation scores and/or peer reviews of teaching).
• Innovation – evidence of contribution to new programme development and innovation in the design and delivery of high quality teaching or assessment of learning including lectures, small group learning and/or using technology or other techniques to enhance learning and/or assessment.
• Strategic - evidence of strategic teaching development - engagement in the design of excellent teaching programmes which are research informed and led.

Scholarship and Educational Impact

Candidates will have the ability to engage in scholarly activity which contributes to pedagogical practice and understanding within the department, faculty and University.

Essential Scholarship Criteria – Grade 7

• Scholarship and Educational Impact – candidates will be expected to demonstrate (experience of or) the potential for engagement in scholarly activity at department level that supports a high quality academic professional community in practice, and in ways that positively impact on pedagogical practice and education within the department (and potentially beyond) or activities that support the development of a professional practice and/or discipline.

Candidates must be able to discuss (or evidence) work undertaken (or which would be undertaken) in preparation for teaching and keeping up to date with developments in the subject area.

The format will depend on the discipline and the candidate’s career to date but evidence of scholarship and educational impact may include some of the following (or similar) activities:

• active membership and engagement with a professional body;
• internal awards (e.g. Collaborative Innovation Grant) to support educational innovation and scholarly activity.
• demonstrable innovation in educational practice, such as contribution to the enhancement of student learning via pedagogic innovation and change (e.g. online learning, research-led teaching, employer engagement, curriculum and course development, student guidance).
• publication in a scholarly journal or relevant professional publication;
• Attending and presenting internal and/or external seminars or at a regional conference;
• and/or Materials/curriculum development for wider use in a department.

Essential Scholarship Criteria – Grade 8

Candidates will be expected to demonstrate engagement in scholarly activity at department level that supports a high quality academic professional community in practice, and in ways that positively impact on pedagogical practice and education within the department (and potentially beyond) or activities that support the development of a professional practice and/or discipline.

Candidates must be able to evidence work undertaken in preparation for teaching and keeping up to date with developments in the subject area.

The format will depend on the discipline and the candidate’s career to date but evidence of scholarship and educational impact may include some of the following (or similar) activities:

• active membership and engagement with a professional body;
• internal awards (e.g. Collaborative Innovation Grant) to support educational innovation and scholarly activity.
• demonstrable innovation in educational practice, such as contribution to the enhancement of student learning via pedagogic innovation and change (e.g. online learning, research-led teaching, employer engagement, curriculum and course development, student guidance).
• publication in a scholarly journal or relevant professional publication;
• Attending and presenting internal and/or external seminars or at a regional conference;
• and/or Materials/curriculum development for wider use in a department.

Service, Citizenship and Values

Active engagement in the administrative and citizenship requirements of the Department. Positive contributions to University values and to fostering a respectful environment as well as demonstrating their commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Essential Service, Citizenship and Values criteria – Grade 7

• Citizenship contribution – experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrate experience of or the potential to participate in the Citizenship /administrative activities of an academic Department, Faculty or University.  (Candidates may choose to evidence departmental or University roles, mentoring activity, pastoral and academic support of students, Carrying out departmental and interdepartmental activities effectively: Being involved in departmental activities, such as open days, employability events, departmental meetings and committees)
• Communication - candidates must have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage with a range of students and colleagues across a variety of forums. (Effective pastoral support of students the beginnings of an external engagement and knowledge exchange profile)
• Administration - experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrate (experience of or) the potential to engage in administration related to teaching or other relevant administration experience.

Essential Services, Citizenship and Values criteria – Grade 8

• Citizenship contribution – evidence of participation in the citizenship/administrative activities of an academic Department, Faculty or University.  (Candidates may choose to evidence departmental or University roles, mentoring activity, pastoral and academic support of students, engagement with widening participation, involvement in equality and diversity initiatives and membership or engagement with external bodies).
• Communication - candidates must have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage with a range of students and colleagues across a variety of forums.
• Administration - evidence of engagement with administration related teaching in an academic department and/or discipline or other relevant administration experience.

Desirable Criteria – Grade 7 and Grade 8

The desirable criteria for this post (for which candidates should provide evidence of some if not all criteria) are:

• Qualification - candidates to hold or have the ability to attain the rank of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/individuals/fellowship/fellow), which is the national body that champions teaching excellence (or Equivalent).  
• Leadership - candidates may choose to detail any prior relevant leadership roles which they have undertaken. Potential examples may include: leading an internal working group; module development and convening; effective administration relating to educational delivery or professional practice; or promoting and leading change processes in a department e.g. in curriculum development.

Contact Information

Department contact for academic-related enquiries

Professor Andrew Parker
Head of Department
Email: andrew.parker@durham.ac.uk

Contact information for technical difficulties when submitting your application

If you encounter technical difficulties when using the online application form, we prefer you send enquiries by email.  Please send your name along with a brief description of the problem you’re experiencing to e.recruitment@durham.ac.uk

Alternatively, you may call 0191 334 6801 from the UK, or +44 191 334 6801 from outside the UK. This number operates during the hours of 09.00 and 17.00 Monday to Friday, UK time.  We will normally respond within one working day (Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays).

University contact for general queries about the recruitment process

Lauren Gulliver - Recruitment Coordinator

lauren.gulliver@durham.ac.uk

How to Apply

We prefer to receive applications online.

Please note that in submitting your application, we will be processing your data. We would ask you to consider the relevant University Privacy Statement https://www.dur.ac.uk/ig/dp/privacy/pnjobapplicants/ which provides information on the collation, storing and use of data.

If you are unable to complete your application via our recruitment system, please get in touch with us on e.recruitment@durham.ac.uk.

What to Submit

All applicants are asked to submit:

• A CV
• A covering letter which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above;
• A personal scholarship plan. Two of your most significant pieces of work/evidence of your pedagogic activity demonstrating scholarship and educational impact since 2017, however work prior to 2017 may be submitted where candidates have had career breaks.
• An EDI & values statement – (of no more than 500 words) which outlines work which you have been involved in which demonstrates your commitment to EDI and our values. I.e. Involvement in quality, diversity, and inclusion activities such as mentoring, volunteering, or attending conferences

Where possible we request that you provide accessible web links to your publications, which the hiring Department will use to access your work.  The application form contains fields in which to enter each of the web links. Please note we are unable to access publications behind a paywall.

In the event you are unable to provide accessible links to online hosting of your work, your work should be uploaded as PDFs as part of your application in our recruitment system. Please ensure that your PDFs are not larger than 5mb. Please note that your work may be read by colleagues from across the Department and evaluated against the current REF criteria;

Please save all application documents with your name and document type as PDF files.

We will notify you on the status of your application at various points throughout the selection process, via automated emails from our e-recruitment system.  Please check your spam/junk folder periodically to ensure you receive all emails.

Referees

You should provide 3 academic referees they should not (if possible) include your PhD supervisor(s).  The majority should be from a University other than your own (save for early career applicants applying for their first post).

References will be requested for candidates who have been shortlisted and will be made available to the panel during the interview process.

As part of your application, you will be asked whether you give your consent to your academic references being sought should you be invited to attend an interview. We will only request references where permission has been granted.

Next Steps

All applications will be considered; our usual practice is for colleagues across the Department to read the submitted work of long-listed candidates.

Short-listed candidates will be invited to the University, either virtually or in-person and will have the opportunity to meet key members of the Department.  The assessment for the post will normally include a presentation to staff and students in the Department followed by an interview and we anticipate that the assessments and interviews will take place over two days in or around 17 March 2023.

In the event that you are unable to attend in person on the date offered, it may not be possible to offer you an interview on an alternative date.

Applicant Guidance

Applicant guidance can be found  HERE