Overall Purpose of the Job:
The Department of Economics at Manchester wishes to appoint one Lecturer (Teaching & Scholarship) in Econometrics from September 2026 onwards.
We wish to appoint an innovative, engaging and dynamic colleague who will be able to enhance the quality of our teaching and improve the student experience at Manchester. The candidate’s responsibilities include course unit leadership, support colleagues by delivering small class teaching for other large units, dissertation supervision and contribution to course unit design including the delivery of formative and summative assessment for students on these units and the marking of assessments.
In addition to course unit specific engagement the candidates will also be involved in other administrative and pastoral duties. Colleagues appointed to a Senior Lecturer position will be expected to do so at a senior level.
We are looking for a colleague able to teach econometrics in undergraduate and postgraduate course units. The colleague will be expected to provide coding support to students (in R and preferably also in Python). We would also anticipate the colleague to deliver statistics course units at the undergraduate level.
Colleagues appointed will be expected to engage in evidence-based enhancement and development of teaching and learning of econometrics in the department. Colleagues appointed to a Senior Lecturer position will be expected to make such contributions beyond the department.
What you will get in return:
- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
Please attach the following as a PDF below your up-to-date CV, or fill in this information where the application asks you to provide supporting information:
- a 1-page summary of recent teaching evaluations (including evaluations from teaching econometrics).
- Reflecting on the teaching evaluations you received for your teaching in econometrics, discuss in 500 words what you learned from these evaluations and how you did (or would) develop your pedagogy and teaching delivery.
- A brief statement on pedagogical scholarship.
- For candidates applying to a Lecturer position: Briefly outline ideas you have for pedagogical scholarship research (max 200 words).
- For candidates applying to a Senior Lecturer position: Briefly summarise your pedagogical scholarship research and how you see it developing in the near future (max 500 words).
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Professor Ralf Becker
Email: ralf.becker@manchester.ac.uk
General enquiries: Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk
Technical support: https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home
This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
