EMPLEO | Three Lectureships / Senior Lectureships in Statistics or Optimization

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

Lecturer/Assistant Professor or Senior Lecturer/Associate Professorships in Mathematics or Statistics (up to 3 Posts)

Location:

Birmingham UK, and Guangzhou, China

Salary:

Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer: Grade 9. Full time starting salary is normally in the range £51,034 to £59,135. With potential progression once in post to £77,108 a year.
Assistant Professor/Lecturer: Grade 8. Full time starting salary is normally in the range £41,526 to £49,553. With potential progression once in post to £55,750 a year.

Closing Date:

23 May 2021

The School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham is a supportive, family friendly and people-focussed environment, committed to equality, diversity and inclusivity. We encourage applications from the widest community. The School has a Bronze Athena Swan award, demonstrating its commitment to supporting women in science.

J-BJI, the Jinan University – University of Birmingham Joint Institute, is a joint venture based at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. The Institute took its first undergraduate intake in September 2017. It currently delivers four degree programmes in Mathematics, Mathematics with Economics, Mathematics with Statistics and Mathematics with Information Computing Science. These programmes attract high quality undergraduate students from across China who are taught in English, with the mathematics component being delivered by flying faculty staff from the University of Birmingham.

In this round of recruitment, the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham is looking to appoint up to three lecturers to join the J-BJI flying faculty team. This will increase the team to a full complement of 16 colleagues. On appointment you become a full, permanent member of the School of Mathematics, based in Birmingham.

We are seeking enthusiastic and committed staff with experience of, or demonstrable potential for, delivering standard first and second year material as well as third year modules covering topics such as applied statistics, game theory or optimization to a broad range of motivated students. Typically you will have, or be developing, an exciting and active research profile, possibly with research interests that might lead to impact activity. Alternatively, teaching focussed candidates will have or be developing an exciting scholarship and pedagogical profile.

The modules are taught intensively. In any one teaching block, there will be four members of the team at based in Guangzhou responsible for the delivery of three modules and their associated examples classes. The Panyu based J-BJI Professional Services Staff team of 3 supports your teaching delivery and assists with accommodation queries. The historic travel pattern has been two teaching blocks delivered at Panyu campus of one month each with staff living on campus in a suite of individual flats. Additional short trips will be required from time to time for events such as orientation, exam invigilation and graduation. (Visa and other operational needs may vary this in the future.) When in the UK, joint meetings and other activities with colleagues in China are sometimes scheduled to accommodate the time difference.
Additional Information

To apply and for further information please go to www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/jobs and search for post numbers 97160 (Assistant Prof) or 97259 (Associate Prof) in current vacancies.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Penny Barber, Head of Operations p.j.barber@bham.ac.uk using the subject title J-BJI Lecturers.

Your CV (or an appendix to it) should include: a numbered list of all publications (most recent first); a statement describing the significance of your best four publications (as you judge them) from the last five years (your statement should be aimed at a general mathematical reader and use approximately 100 words for each publication); a list of all of your teaching experience (including the subject, level of student, class size and your role in the class); a statement of approximately 400 words describing on your philosophy, vision and passion for teaching.

To ensure a fair and unbiased shortlisting process, we may conduct brief online interviews for candidates from a longlist. If you are shortlisted, we will invite you to an interview, giving you an indication of the areas that the interview questions will cover. We will also ask you to give a short teaching presentation. Although we would very much like to meet you in person, we are happy to run interviews and teaching presentations virtually where appropriate.