Associate Professor -ARH/72/2024
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 Entrepreneurship and Innovation announces an open call for applications for the Associate Professor position in the Entrepreneurship Department for 3 years definite period.
Different tenure track schemes can be offered if mutual satisfaction is achieved.
The starting date is autumn semester 2024.
About the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Through its impactful teaching, research, consultancy, mentoring, training, and professional support activities, the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is dedicated to fostering and developing the entrepreneurial attitude, mind- and toolset of students, graduates, and corporate partners. This is to support them in seizing future opportunities by transforming innovative ideas into action. The newly established Institute also strives to support the university in establishing a university-level business incubation center and act as a catalyst of entrepreneurial culture and behavior across the university.
Job description and key duties:
Teaching duties:
- Teaching subjects belonging to the education portfolio of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in weekly class hours as defined by the Academic Career Model.
- Provide lectures on BA, MA, and PhD levels
- Develop and innovate course design and teaching material in Entrepreneurship
Research duties:
- Writing articles in prestigious international journals in the field of Entrepreneurship (in top-ranked, peer-reviewed international journals, min. 2 Q1 per 3 years),
- Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of Entrepreneurship, 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 Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the university, performing service tasks determined by the head of the institute.
- Supporting early-career academics at the university, supervising PhD students as well as students participating in student competitions.
- Mentoring assistant professor colleagues in the institute.
- Support the establishment and expansion of embeddedness into international research networks.
Essential qualifications and experience:
- Doctorate obtained at least 3 years ago in entrepreneurship, business development or related area,
- Sufficient teaching experience gained in higher education: minimum 400 contact hours in sum, from which 40 in English language
- Research activity (on an international level) and publication of research results in highly ranked international scientific journals: at least 3 international papers in the applicant’s research area from which at least 1 Q1 or 2 Q2 in the year of publishing (no predatory journal), max. 3 authors and the applicant is the first or corresponding author
- Minimum 10 independent international, Scopus citations
- H-index: minimum: 5 (according to MTMT or equivalent)
- Talent management: Officially included in the supervision of at least 1 doctoral student (co-supervision is possible), or as senior researcher works with a younger researcher, or supervisor in student competition or principal investigator of a project which involves junior colleagues or PhD students to introduce/improve them to/in research.
- Student evaluation, min. 4.0 (or equivalent, 80%) in the last 3 years
- Experience in the acquisition and management of research projects and external funding,
- Desire to collaborate with local researchers in building up a research portfolio in social entrepreneurship and social innovation,
- Desire to collaborate with and support young faculty and PhD students,
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work independently,
- Knowledge of foreign languages, especially English.
Desirable criteria:
- Student evaluation verifying teaching excellence
- Experience in fulfilling course leader duties
- Verifiable teaching development activity (curriculum development, methodological development
- 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
- International embeddedness, regular participation in international conferences, membership in international networks
- Participation in the work of professional organisations
- Participation in international research projects
- Participation in the editing and/or membership in the editorial staff of domestic and international journals
- International experience and strong ties with the relevant international networks and communities be an advantage.
Documents and certificates to be submitted as part of the application:
- Curriculum Vitae including the detailed presentation of the teaching, research and service activities and results
- Summary table of achievements (please fill in the Excel Summary Table for associate professor applications – you can find it at the bottom of this page)
- Assessment sheet for associate professor applications (please fill in the Excel Assessment Sheet)
- Cover letter, including the presentation of future academic plans (educational, teaching development and research plans)
- References written by reputable leading professors or researchers of the discipline (signed, scanned)
- Research paper
- Doctoral dissertation
- 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.)
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
- One-time relocation support for candidates moving to Hungary
- Cafeteria allowance
- Being part of a friendly, collaborative network and team of researchers and lecturers
Application procedure:
- The deadline for the submission of the application is 2024. 05. 22.
- The applications shall be submitted by clicking on the APPLICATION 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 academic matters Attila Petheő at attila.petheo@uni-corvinus.hu