[ecrea] Assistant professor/University of Helsinki

> *Aihe:* *Assistant professor/University of Helsinki*
>
> Assistant professor in media and communication studies at University
> of Helsinki
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>
> > https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/assistant-professor-in-media-and-communication-studies-faculty-of-social-sciences


The University of Helsinki – among the best in the world
Founded in 1640, the University of Helsinki is one of the best 
multidisciplinary research universities in the world. The University of 
Helsinki is an international academic community of 40,000 students and 
staff members. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and at 15 other 
locations. The high-quality research carried out by the university 
creates new knowledge for educating diverse specialists in various 
fields, and for utilisation in social decision-making and the business 
sector.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is Finland’s leading research and 
education institute in the social sciences, and the country’s most 
diverse social sciences faculty in terms of the selection of its 
disciplines and fields of science. The Faculty has two departments, the 
Department of Social Research and the Department of Political and 
Economic Studies, which feature a total of 13 disciplines, as well as a 
number of multidisciplinary research networks. The Faculty has more than 
4,000 degree students, of whom close to 700 are pursuing a postgraduate 
degree. Each year, the Faculty awards some 400 Bachelor’s degrees, 350 
Master’s degrees and more than 40 doctoral degrees. For more 
information, please see the Faculty website at 
http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/.

The Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the tenure track 
position of

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

in media and communication studies.

The position will be placed in the discipline of media and communication 
studies, which has three professorships and four university lectureships 
in addition to the current assistant professorship. The discipline also 
has approximately 20 researchers and doctoral students and annually 
awards some 30–35 Master’s degrees and from two to four Licentiate and 
doctoral degrees.

The University has established the tenure track system of teaching and 
research staff to employ talented and motivated individuals as assistant 
professors for a fixed term of three to five years. The assistant 
professor’s performance during the contract period will be monitored and 
evaluated against criteria determined when the contract was signed. 
Success in the evaluation will lead to new fixed-term employment as 
associate professor, the ultimate goal being permanent employment as a 
professor.

The assistant professor is expected to conduct top-level international 
research, provide teaching based on such research, participate in 
doctoral education and the development of teaching, and acquire research 
funding.

Moreover, the appointee is expected to have completed a doctoral degree 
and have since acquired promising scientific or other merits needed in 
the field. When assessing applicants, additional merit will be granted 
for a wide range of research and teaching qualifications in the study of 
the public sphere and media studies. Knowledge of social theories and 
the ability to collaborate with other scholars interested in society, 
culture and politics will also be considered an asset. In addition, 
scholarly work outside Finland, high-quality international publications, 
active international collaboration networks as well as success in the 
acquisition of external research funding will be given particular 
consideration. A significant part of the appointee’s teaching will be 
provided within the Media and Democracy option in the English-language 
Master’s Programme in Global Politics and Communication.

According to the Government Decree on Universities, assistant professors 
are required to be competent in Finnish. They must also have at least 
satisfactory spoken and written skills in Swedish. Foreign citizens, 
non-native Finnish citizens or citizens who have not been educated in 
Finnish or Swedish may be exempted from this requirement without a 
separate application. To successfully attend to the duties of the 
position, the appointees must have good English skills. Foreign citizens 
or Finnish citizens who have not been educated in Finnish or Swedish are 
expected to be willing to acquire sufficient proficiency in Finnish. The 
employer will support the appointee’s language learning.

The salary will be based on level 7 of the requirement scheme for 
teaching and research positions in the salary system of Finnish 
universities. In addition, the appointee will receive a salary component 
based on personal work performance. The assistant professor’s starting 
salary will be approximately 4,400–5,100 euros, depending on the 
appointee’s qualifications and merits.

The following English-language documents must be enclosed with applications:

• A curriculum vitae
• A list of publications
• An informal report (max. 5 pages) on the applicant’s scholarly 
activities (activities in the scientific community, success in obtaining 
research funding and international research experience)
• A report of teaching experience and merits (max. 3 pages, e.g., an 
academic portfolio: 
http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/administration/positions/portfolio...)
• A brief report (1–2 pages) on how the applicant intends to develop his 
or her research and focus his or her scholarly activities, if appointed

Applicants are kindly asked to prepare for the situation in which, after 
the closing of the application period, the Faculty may request them to 
submit 10 publications of their choice to be sent to the assessors. 
Applicants can save these publications in the University’s electronic 
recruitment system as attachments to their application.

Applications must be submitted through the University’s electronic 
recruitment system by clicking on Apply for job. Internal applicants 
(i.e., current employees of the University of Helsinki) must submit 
their applications through the SAP HR portal. The application deadline 
will be 23 September, 2016.

Further information about the position may be obtained from Professor 
Keijo Rahkonen, Head of the Department of Social Research, tel. +358 50 
416 0618, keijo.rahkonen(at)helsinki.fi.

Apply at latest 23.09.2016

Ap­ply link

https://rekry.helsinki.fi/sap/bc/erecruiting/posting_apply?param=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d...
Due date

Friday, September 23, 2016


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