Associate Professor in Business Management & Health Sciences

About us

The UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) at UCL East campus is an innovative business school preparing future healthcare leaders to disrupt and reimagine global health systems. GBSH is dedicated to training and developing the next generation of leaders in the global health economy by building on UCL’s proud tradition of cross-disciplinary academic excellence in education and research.

About the role

This post will be the programme lead for our new BSc/MSci programme in Business and Health launching in 2025.

The post holder will oversee shaping the student experience on this novel programme as well as building a team of academics who provide the teaching and mentoring to the students on this programme. The post holder will also teach on the programme on modules that align with their expertise as well as other related tasks such as serving on our education committee, working across GBSH education team, engaging and supporting our marketing and student recruitment team, and our placement and careers to ensure an exceptional student experience. This programme offers students the opportunity to have a year study abroad experience or work placement that the programme lead will have oversight of. This programme requires a passionate academic who values the undergraduate experience and can embrace the vision for this programme. The post holder needs to be an exceptional communicator and team builder who has the student at the heart of the programme and understands the importan ce of high impact activities for undergraduates.

The post is due to start in January 2025.

This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Academic Staff. Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/policies/2021/jun/conditions-service-academic-staff for more information.

About you

You will be required to have a PhD (or equivalent) in business and/or a life or health science focus or a related field to business or health. You have a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and/or other teaching qualification, good knowledge of current literature in business and management, innovation and the life sciences and higher education teaching experience. You will have experience of leading positive culture change, or culture creation, within a discipline, department or organisation and experience in teaching or leading an undergraduate programme You will have excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills, the ability to work independently or collaboratively, supervise undergraduate and/or postgraduate research students and deliver research-led effective, engaging and inclusive undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching.

The interview date is currently scheduled for Thursday 14 November 2024 (subject to change)

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