Senior Lecturer in Finance

Bangor Business School are seeking to appoint to a permanent full time Senior Lectureship in Finance on a Teaching & Research track.

The ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh is desirable for this role.

Applications will also be considered to carry out this role on a part-time or job share basis.

Committed to Equal Opportunities.

Overview

Bangor Business School provides a wide range of financial databases, including Bloomberg, Capital IQ Pro, RatingsDirect and Boardex. We have a newly refurbished Trading Room, a state-of-the-art facility incorporating Bloomberg, Refinitiv Eikon and Orbis, that enables students to experience real-world trading and financial research activities.

Bangor Business School offers a wide range of research-led programmes in Finance both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A new BSc in Banking with Financial Technology has recently been launched. The Accounting and Finance group within the School provides the core teaching on these programmes, together with teaching of finance for students on a wide range of other programmes within the School. All members of the group contribute towards the teaching of main Finance modules, but also have the opportunity to teach to their main interests on specialist modules.

We have a strong and sustained track-record in developing newly qualified PhDs into successful academics.

Purpose of the Job
- To deliver quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels which engages students.
- To conduct research of an international standard in a relevant field, with substantial evidence of quality and international peer recognition.
- To provide pastoral and academic support to undergraduate and postgraduate students, including supervision of projects.
- To perform administrative tasks effectively as designated by the Head of School.
- To engage in grant capture activities and contribute significantly to national and international networks.
- To engage with local government and other organisations on issues relating to finance.

Main

**Responsibilities**:
Teaching duties will include:

- Establishing a record of teaching excellence at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
- Planning, preparing and delivering lectures and seminars at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, responding effectively to a variety of student backgrounds, learning styles and class sizes including delivery of quality modules that attract, engage and retain students.
- Motivating students to proactively engage in learning, and providing meaningful and constructive feedback on the quality of their work within agreed time constraints.
- Examining and supervising/co-supervising students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
- Keeping abreast of new professional, educational and related social, economic and technological developments.
- Ensuring that all students are provided with a supportive learning environment and providing advice and guidance to individual students as their personal tutor.
- Participating in Quality Enhancement procedures.
- Contributing to the teaching and assessment of the School’s portfolio of modules and programmes at various levels according to the needs of the School, including designing, developing and delivering a range of teaching materials for study at various levels.
- Relating, wherever possible and practicable, teaching to the surrounding area by using the local environment to engage students.
- Building links with external agencies to provide work experience for students that could lead towards them gaining an additional professionally recognised qualification.

Research duties will include:

- Personal research, and/or collaborative research with colleagues in the School or across the College / University.
- Managing one’s own research projects, with an emphasis on research output of a quality and quantity to contribute positively to the esteem and resources generated by the Research Excellence Framework.
- Contributing to the research environment of the School through publication, conference contributions, research seminars and other research activities.
- Contributing to research groups / networks internally or externally to the School and / or University.
- Contributing towards an Impact Case study.
- Supervision of research students.
- Engaging in scholarly and other relevant professional activities.
- Engaging/leading grant capture activities and contributing towards the School’s capability to attract external research funding.
- Liaising with national research bodies to identify future research requirements.
- Generating impact of scholarly activity beyond academia.

Administrative duties will include:

- Participating in the student recruitment and induction procedures of the School;
- Contributing to the School’s management, and participating in the administration of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes e.g. acting as director for a group of postgraduate taught programmes.
- Contributing