Professor – ARH-145/2024
Corvinus University of Budapest has over a 100-year-old history and is one of the leading universities in Hungary in Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences.
We have around 11,500 students, of which, approximately 2,000 are international.
We are located in a stunning UNESCO Heritage building overlooking the Danube River, in the heart of Budapest.
We have been granted accreditation by EFMD and EAPAA and we are the only Hungarian business university to have two international institutional accreditations by AACSB and AMBA. Additionally, we are members of several international networks such as CEMS, BSIS, PRME, and CFA.
We are proud to have won the most sustainably developing university title in UI GreenMetric’s world ranking in 2022.
The Institute of Strategy and Management announces an open call for applications for the Professor position for an indefinite years period.
The starting date is autumn semester 2025/2026.
Job description and key duties:
Teaching duties:
- Teaching of subjects belonging to the education portfolio of the Institute of Strategy and Management in weekly class hours as defined by the Academic Career Model.
Research duties:
- Writing articles in prestigious international and domestic journal in the field of organizational or social psychology
- Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of organizational or social psychology, thus securing the resources of the research projects and contributing to the internationalisation of the Institute and the University.
Service duties:
- Active participation in the professional public life of the Institute of Strategy and Management and the University, performing service tasks determined by the head of the institute.
- Supporting early-career academics at the university, including supervising PhD students as well as students participating in student competition.
- Mentoring assistant professor and associate professor colleagues in the institute.
Essential qualifications and experience:
- Holds a master’s degree in psychology and a PhD in psychology from an internationally recognized university (ranked in the top 200 in the field of social sciences)
- Has at least 5 years of teaching and/or research experience gained in higher education
- Possesses a strong publication record in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals, with an H-index of at least 20
- Can leverage innovative pedagogy to deliver high-quality classes in English
- Has experience in international research projects as a principal investigator (PI)
- Is a member of topic-relevant international academic associations, such as the European Association of Social Psychologists (EASP), the International Society of Political Psychologists (ISPP), or the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
Desirable experience:
- Feedback (student evaluation, evaluation of direct supervisor) verifying teaching excellence
- Research activity with international impact, substantial international citation (verifiable)
- Active role in the activities of doctoral programs and/or mentoring of doctoral students
- Active role in talent management
- Experience in the coordination of research groups with the involvement of doctoral students and young colleagues
- Regular participation in international conferences, membership in international networks
- Participation in the work of professional organisations
- Participation in the editing and/or membership in the editorial staff of domestic and international journals
Documents and certificates to be submitted as part of the application:
- Curriculum Vitae including a detailed presentation of teaching, research and service activities and results
- Summary table of achievements (Please fill in the Summary table Excel for professor applications)
- Cover letter, including the presentation of future academic plans (educational, teaching development and research plans)
- References written by at least two reputable leading professors or researchers of the discipline (signed, scanned)
- Scanned copies of the documents verifying the university degree, scientific rank (eg. PhD degree) and of the documents verifying other professional qualifications. (In case of scientific ranks obtained abroad, the nostrification will be arranged in the next phase of the selection procedure.)
- In case of university professor applicants who already have been appointed by the President of Hungary the document certifying this nomination shall be provided.
Remuneration and benefits:
- Favourable conditions regarding research facilities, data access
- Time devoted to research, travel support, etc.
- A competitive salary is accompanied by a 15% bonus in case of outstanding performance
- Additional benefits via ’Cafeteria’ allowance
Application procedure:
- The deadline for the submission of the application: 2025. 03. 17.
- We aim to interview shortlisted candidates first online. Selected applicants will be notified of the details of the online interview by mid-April 2025. We aim to interview shortlisted candidates on fly-out from May 2025.
- The applications shall be submitted by clicking on the APPLY HERE button and by following the instructions on the bottom of the webpage.
- The next step of the selection procedure is that the selected applicants will be interviewed by the Academic Tenure and Promotion Committee. The selected applicants will be informed in a later phase about details and timing.
For further information:
Please, feel free to e-mail us in administrative matters career@uni-corvinus.hu and in and in academic matters Miklós Stocker, Head of Institute of Strategy and Management at miklos.stocker@uni-corvinus.hu and/or Zsolt Péter Szabó Head of Department of Psychology at zsoltpeter.szabo@uni-corvinus.hu.