VACANCY: Assistant Professor in International Relations with expertise on Middle-East politics

 

 

 

Job description

• Developing, conducting, and supervising high quality academic research on the international and transnational relations of the Middle East;
• Teaching general and specialist courses in Political Science, more in particular International Relations at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, and involvement in post-graduate supervision;
• (Participation in) the acquisition of external research funding;
• Contributing to the research programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and to the development of the field through scholarly publications and participation in national and international research networks and educational initiatives.

Requirements

• A completed doctoral thesis in Political Science or other relevant field in the social sciences;
• An ongoing programme of research and publications, focused on internationally ranked, ‘peer reviewed’ journals and/or books published by internationally recognized academic presses;
• Broad general knowledge in International Relations;
• Mastery of appropriate social science research methods (qualitative and/or quantitative);
• Ability to provide excellent and inspiring teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in English as well as (eventually) Dutch;
• Strong passive and adequate active knowledge of Dutch, or the ability and willingness to acquire such within a period of three years;
• The basic qualification at Dutch universities in higher education (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs; BKO) certificate, or a willingness to acquire such.

Conditions of employment

Depending on experience, pay will be based on assistant professor scale 1 or 2 (i.e. a gross monthly salary ranging from a minimum of €3195 to a maximum of € 4970 for full-time work, based on the January 2009 salary scale). Holiday pay is 8% of the gross annual salary, while the year-end bonus is 8.3% of the gross annual salary. According to our employment policies, you will be offered a temporary contract for three years, with conditions for tenured position thereafter agreed upon appointment.

Organisation

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) is the largest educational and research institution in the social sciences in the Netherlands. The Faculty serves around 9,000 students in numerous Bachelor's and Master's programs in Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication Science, Psychology, Social Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, and Educational Sciences. The academic staff is employed in education as well as research. There are over 1,200 employees at the Faculty, which resides in a number of buildings in the centre of Amsterdam. 

Additional information

Additional information about the vacancy may be obtained from:

• Prof. Dr. Brian Burgoon

More information about employer University of Amsterdam (UvA) on AcademicTransfer. Direct link to this job opening: www.academictransfer.com/16145

Bron: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UVA/vacancy/16145/lang/en/





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