Associate Senior Lecturer in Risk management with focus on capability assessments - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Division of risk management and societal safety, at the Department of Building and Environmental Technology, conducts research and teaching with focus on societal safety and crisis management. We are appointing an assistant senior lecturer who can take part in teaching related to risk, safety and crisis management, and research related to capability assessment and capability development within risk and crisis management.

Subject
Risk management with focus on capability assessments.

Subject description
Capability assessments are used in a range of application areas, such as fire and rescue services, civil crisis preparedness and civil as well as military defence. They are used as decision support for how an organization can better be prepare to respond to undesirable events of various types. In many cases, capability assessments require complex analysis and evaluations, especially in cases they concern joint capability assessments, i.e. assessments of the capability of a range of actors that perform a joint task. Research addressing capability assessment can be normative/conceptual, i.e. aim to suggest how the capability concept should be defined and how methods to assess capability can be structured. Research can also be descriptive/empirical, i.e. aim to study how capability assessments are performed in practise to draw conclusion about challenges, limitations and success factors in order to further improve the practises of capability assessments.

Work duties
Employment as an Associate Senior Lecturer is a career development position, which aims for the holder to develop his or her independence as a researcher and educator. The work duties mainly involve research and teaching. The position shall include the opportunity for five weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning.

Work duties include:

• Research within the subject area.
• Teaching in the first, second and third cycles of studies.
• Supervision of degree projects and doctoral students.
• Actively seeking external research funding.
• Collaboration with industry and wider society.
• Work to develop and lead educational programs on first and second cycles of studies.
• Administration related to the work duties listed above.

Qualification requirements
Appointment to Associate Senior Lecturer requires that the applicant has a PhD, or acquired corresponding research expertise.

Priority should be given to applicants who have completed their degree or acquired the equivalent expertise no more than five years before the last date for applications.

Assessment criteria
For appointment to Associate Senior Lecturer, the following shall form the assessment criteria:

• A good ability to develop and conduct high quality research.
• Teaching skills.

Additional requirements

• Very good oral and written proficiency in English.
• Good oral and written proficiency in Swedish.
• Experience of both normative/conceptual and descriptive/empirical research in the area of risk management and/or capability assessments.

Other qualifications

• Experience of research and development work related to capability assessments in fire and rescue services and civil crisis preparedness.
• Experience in teaching and course coordination from courses within the area of risk analysis, risk management and crisis preparedness.
• Experience from other relevant research environments than the one the position relates to.
   

Consideration will also be given to ability to cooperate, drive and independence, and how the applicant’s experience and skills complement and strengthen ongoing research, education and innovation within the department, and how they stand to contribute to its future development.

Terms of employment
This is a full-time, fixed-term employment of 6 years. The employment is regulated in accordance with Chapter 4 Section 12a§ HEA.

Instructions on how to apply
Applications shall be written in English. Please draw up the application in accordance with LTH’s Academic qualifications portfolio – see link below. Upload the application as PDF-files in the recruitment system. Read more:
http://www.lth.se/english/working-at-lth/to-apply-for-academic-positions-at-lth/

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Promotion to Senior Lecturer in Risk management with focus on capability assessment

During the period of employment, an Associate Senior Lecturer can apply for promotion to a permanent position as Senior Lecturer if he or she has the required qualifications listed below, and is deemed suitable. An Associate Senior Lecturer can only apply for promotion once.

Qualification requirements
Appointment to Senior Lecturer requires that the applicant has:

• A PhD or corresponding research competence or professional expertise considered important with regard to the subject matter of the post and the work duties it will involve.
• Demonstrated teaching expertise.
• Completed five weeks of training in higher education teaching and learning, or acquired equivalent knowledge by other means.

Assessment criteria
The assessment criteria specify the aspects to be taken into account, and the level to be achieved, in order for the assessment criteria to be deemed fulfilled. The following assessment criteria must be fulfilled for appointment to senior lecturer:

• A good national and international standing as a researcher. The requirement for international experience shall be assessed with consideration to the character and traditions of the subject.
• Good teaching ability, including a good ability to conduct, develop and lead teaching and other educational activities on different levels and using a variety of teaching methods.
• An ability to supervise doctoral students to achieve a PhD.
• An ability to collaborate with wider society and communicate his or her activities.
• A good general ability to lead and develop activities.

Additional requirements

• Good ability to co-operate, independence and drive.
• Ability to actively, independently and successfully apply for external research funding
• Ability to contibute to renewal of the acadmic activies at the division.