Associate Professor of Management

The UCL School of Management is home to UCL’s business and management research and education programmes. The School has forged a reputation for world-leading research and teaching in the areas of innovation management, the creation and growth of technology-intensive organisations, business analytics, and entrepreneurship.

The School is a member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools. Our academic staff, comprised of 100 academic and education faculty, is organised around five research groups, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Organisations & Innovation, Operations & Technology, Marketing & Analytics, and Finance, Accounting & Economics. We offer innovative undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA, MRes & PhD and executive programmes in Management, Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, Business Information Systems, and Finance, designed to prepare students for leadership roles in the next generation of innovation-intensive organisations.

This is an exciting time to join the UCL School of Management as it is embarking on a significant expansion plan which will see it deliver on a new strategy to double in size over the next five years. An increase in degree programmes and staff will ensure that we continue our mission to deliver the next generation of socially conscious entrepreneurial leaders, who will tackle the world’s greatest challenges.

Further information about the School can be found here: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/

The UCL School of Management is looking to appoint a dynamic and dedicated part-time Associate Professor (Education) in Business Analytics. More specifically, the School is seeking for a postholder with a record of accomplishments in teaching statistics and analytics to business and management students. Additionally, the School is looking for candidates who can demonstrate experience in preparing students to work with artificial intelligence across industries and management roles.

The post-holder will be expected to deliver and assess modules at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels. The postholder will also be involved in dissertation/project supervision, personal tutoring, and a range of citizenship roles within the School and/or the wider UCL. As an Associate Professor, the post-holder will i) demonstrate active engagement with the interface between research and education and its implications for teaching within the analytics arena; ii) lead projects that contribute to the high quality of the educational experience among students at UCL and elsewhere; and iii) engage with networks and reach in their area of cognate knowledge and education practice both nationally and internationally.

This is a post on the Education/Teaching track and is not an academic research track post. A doctorate in the area of statistics or a related field (e.g. operations, data science) is essential.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document. When completing your supporting statement, please tell us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 6 closure days (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our school holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.