Department of Sport Science and Nutrition Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Sport Science (Permanent)

The role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

Maynooth University is now undertaking a major expansion in the area of sport and exercise science to include additional undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and strengthening our research activities in the general thematic area of health. Our focus is on the health-related aspects of exercise and sport, particularly human health and well-being, rehabilitation, and healthy aging.

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Sport Science, ideally specialising in biological maturation and youth athlete development, coaching science  and/or strength and conditioning. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of Master’s and PhD students.

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.

Salary:

Assistant Professor/Lecturer: €62,855 – €99,533 p.a. (7 points)

Assistant Lecturer: €40,682 – €69,887 p.a. (14 points)

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential

• A PhD in a relevant discipline;
• A strong academic record in teaching and research;
• A record of scholarly work and publication of international quality, demonstrating potential to become a significant contributor in their field;
• Experience of and a demonstrated commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, programme development and academic innovation;
• Experience supervising graduate research students;
• Experience of, and commitment to, working in an interdisciplinary setting;
• Good administrative, organisational, teamwork and communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience with field-based equipment used for athletic performance testing;
• Experience teaching undergraduate modules related to biological maturation and youth athlete development, coaching science and strength and conditioning;
• Experience developing curriculum and assessment tasks.

For further details including full comprehensive job description please see reference number 032321 on the Maynooth University vacancies page at: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies

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