Full-time Teaching & Research Assistant Position in Information Management / Data Science (PhD-track)

University faculty : Economics Management Communication Politics (EMCP)
Department : UNamur School of Management
Grade : academic assistant
Contract : 2 year fixed-term contract, renewable twice
Category : scientific personnel
Allocation : University staff
Reference : 50000897

Responsabilities

Academic environment Located in the historic center of the City of Namur, capital of Wallonia, the University of Namur combines tradition and innovation to offer high-quality, human-centered teaching and cutting-edge research. With nearly 100 undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs, 11 research institutes, and 11 technology platforms, UNamur welcomes more than 7,500 students and doctoral students each year in its 7 faculties and has more than 1,300 staff members, including more than 800 researchers. The Faculty EMCP (Economics Management Communication Politics – www.unamur.be/emcp) has nearly 1,800 students and 250 staff members, including 40 permanent academics and 70 scientists/doctoral students, spread across 4 schools (UNamur School of Evening Studies in Economics and Management, UNamur School of Social Sciences, Politics, and Communication, Namur School of Economics, UNamur School of Management). It offers undergraduate (bachelor), graduate (master) and postgraduate (e.g., doctorate) programs in management and economics, both at day time and shift schedule. It also offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in political science and information and communication. Its members conduct cutting-edge research in numerous fields of expertise, for which continuing education (e.g., certificates) is offered.

The candidate will be part of the UNamur School of Management. The School has 60 full- and part-time academic and research staff, and offers bachelor, master, and doctoral programs, with a particular focus on topics in finance, services and& marketing management, innovation and information management. Research is organized through five research centers, and concentrates on the said topics. The School actively collaborates with many national and international institutions and companies, through research projects, seminars, consultancy and student internships.

Job description

The position involves, in equal parts, teaching and research duties. Teaching (in the field of IT management, programming and data science) will be carried out within the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Research will be undertaken in the field of information management in a broad sense within one of the research centers of the EMCP Faculty and within one of the research institutes of the University (e.g., NADI, Namur Digital Institute or DeFIPP Institute, Development Finance & Public Policies).

Profile

Requirements

The applicant holds or will hold by the end of June 2025 (or by the end of September 2025, with in that case a starting date on October 1st, 2025) a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Management or in Economics (or equivalent), and is expected to have excelled in his/her curriculum (degree obtained with honours). S/he has a good command of spoken and written French and English. S/he must display excellent teaching skills. S/he wants and is able to develop an original research programme likely to lead to a doctoral degree in Economics and Management supervised by a member of the UNamur School of Management.

Applications

The application form can be downloaded from the University of Namur website (http://www.unamur.be/universite/jobs/). The filled out form (in PDF format) should be returned before 28th April 2025 by e-mail at [email protected], with a curriculum vitae, a short description in English of a future or past research (e.g., master’s thesis) and a motivation letter for the position, which includes teaching and research duties. The full file must also be sent by e-mail to Prof. Corentin BURNAY, Head of the UNamur School of Management ([email protected]). Nominated candidates will be invited to a meeting with the members of the selection committee within one month of the deadline for submission of applications. More details will be announced later.

Additional information

Additional information

Prof. Corentin BURNAY (Head of the UNamur School of Management), [email protected]

All practical information needed by foreign candidates can be obtained from the website of the European researchers’ mobility portal (EURAXESS): https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/.