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Post Doc position at CBS: Cross-Sector Collaboration / Business and Humanitarianism

  • 1.  Post Doc position at CBS: Cross-Sector Collaboration / Business and Humanitarianism

    Posted 11-10-2020 03:03

    COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL
    POST DOC IN THE AREA OF CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION


    CBS invites applicants for a Post Doc position in the area of cross-sector collaboration, with a specific focus on business-humanitarian partnerships.

    The Post Doc is a non-tenured position which entails both research and teaching activities. The position is connected to the project 'Private-sector Engagement in Humanitarian Action' (HUMAC), led by Associate Professor Jasper Hotho and Assistant Professor Verena Girschik.

    The HUMAC project examines how business-humanitarian collaboration can be organized in an ethical, effective, and sustainable manner.To this end, the project team - consisting of the principal investigators, a Post Doc and a PhD student - examines the challenges of business-humanitarian collaboration in a variety of crisis contexts. The aimis to generate urgently needed research-based knowledge and theoretical insights into the organizational dynamics, complications, and solutions of business-humanitarian collaboration in crisis contexts. The project is funded by the Velux Foundation, and will commence in November 2020. Additional information on the project can be found here.

    The Post Doc position is focused on the legitimacy concerns towards private-sector engagement in humanitarian action. Humanitarian organizations increasingly collaborate with global firms, and various platforms have been created to facilitate such collaborations, such as the UN Connecting Business Initiative. However, the humanitarian community has traditionally viewed private-sector firms with considerable skepticism. In collaboration with the project team, the Post Doc will be asked to examine whether and how such legitimacy concerns may best be addressed for constructive collaboration in the context of global initiatives for emergency relief.

    Interested applicants are encouraged to include a brief research statement with their application package, describing how they envision addressing this question in ways that build on their own research strengths. The Post Doc will work in close collaboration with the rest of the project team and will be eligible for considerable financial support for field work and data collection.

    The Post Doc is a three-year position with a 33% teaching load. The Post Doc will be affiliated with the Department of International Economics, Government and Business (EGB) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Details about CBS can be found 
    here.

    Qualifications
    • The applicant must hold, or be about to complete, a PhD in the social sciences (e.g. Management, International Business, Political Science, or comparable fields) or a relevant humanities discipline, such as International Relations
    • The applicant must have demonstrated research affinity with cross-sector collaboration, multi-stakeholder partnerships, or business and humanitarianism, and must be interested in building up a research profile in these areas
    • The applicant must have excellent qualitative research skills
    • The ideal candidate is collaboratively minded but able to work highly independently
    • The applicant must have excellent professional proficiency in English (written and spoken)
    To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the eventual candidate is expected to be physically present at the department on a regular basis. Teaching responsibilities may comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching and will be determined on the basis of the candidate's profile.

    Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programs. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organization of this type.

    Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance's agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.

    Applications must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below.

    Applications must include:
    1. A cover letter outlining the candidate's main strengths and abilities.
    2. A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the assessment. A maximum of 5 publications for assessment are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
    3. Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration)
    4. Information indicating experience in research management, industry co-operation and international co-operation, if any.
    5. Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level.
    6. Transcript(s) and a full CV
    Recruitment procedure

    The Recruitment Committee will shortlist a minimum of two applicants; when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.

    The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment.

    Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.
    Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.

    For substantive questions related to the project or the position, please contact Associate Professor Jasper Hotho (
    jh.egb@cbs.dk) or Assistant Professor Verena Girschik (vg.msc@cbs.dk).

    Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at www.cbs.dk.
     
    Closing date: 15 December 2020.