Wits : School of Economic & Business Sciences 2017 Job Vacancy

Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / SENIOR LECTURER IN ECONOMICS – specialization in Industrial Organization and Competition

Remuneration: A competitive salary package will be offered.

The School of Economic and Business Sciences (SEBS) is one of five schools in the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management at the University of the Witwatersrand. The school offers an active research environment and unrivalled access to industry and international bodies, as a result of being located in the country’s industrial heartland. It delivers both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Economics, Marketing, Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Management, Finance and Insurance. For further information please visit our website at www.wits.ac.za/sebs

Applicants at the ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR level are required to have a PhD degree in Economics, and a substantial research and publication record in the field of industrial organization and competition economics, and extensive experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including supervision of PhD students.

Applicants at the SENIOR LECTURER level are required to have a PhD degree in Economics and some research publications in accredited journals in the area of industrial organization and competition economics, as well as experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The successful applicant will be expected to:

Actively participate in research
Teach both undergraduate and postgraduate courses
Participate actively in the running of the school through academic citizenship activities

To apply:

Submit a covering letter together with a CV that includes the name, address and contact details (as well as e-mail addresses) of three referees. External applicants are invited to apply, by registering your profile on the Wits i-Recruitment platform located at https://irec.wits.ac.za and submitting your application.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Candidates who have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date can consider their applications unsuccessful. In accordance with our Employment Equity goals and plan, preference will be given to suitable applicants from designated groups, as defined in the Employment Equity Act, 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto. The University of the Witwatersrand reserves the right not to make an appointment and to verify all information provided by candidates.

Closing date: 7 August 2017

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