Job Description and Selection Criteria
Post Associate Professorship of Law and Finance
Department/Faculty Law
Division Social Sciences
College Linacre College Permanent upon completion of a successful review. The review is Contract type conducted during the first 5 years. Grade 36S, £47,263 - £63,463 per annum. Associate Professors who are Salary awarded the title of full Professor may receive from the University an additional salary payment of £2,700 p.a. Vacancy Reference 140527
Closing date for Midday on Wednesday 5 June 2019 applications
Overview of the post The Faculty of Law and Linacre College are recruiting an Associate Professor of Law and Finance to pursue research; to undertake teaching and supervision within the field of Law and Finance; and to work in collaboration with the Saïd Business School in the delivery and development of joint research and teaching programmes, in particular the MSc in Law and Finance (‘MLF’). The position will be held in conjunction with a non-tutorial Fellowship at Linacre College.
The University of Oxford is a member of the Athena SWAN Charter to promote women in Science, Engineering, Technology and Medicine, Social Sciences and the Humanities. The University holds an Athena SWAN bronze award at institutional level, and the Law Faculty holds its own bronze award at departmental level. Contact [email protected] for further information about Athena SWAN at the University of Oxford.
If you would like to talk to a colleague about joining our academic community, please contact Professor Liz Fisher ([email protected]), who is not a member of the selection committee.
Enquiries about the post should be addressed to the Head of Administration and Finance, Charlotte Vinnicombe [email protected]). Administrative enquires about the application process may be addressed to Emma Gascoigne in the Faculty of Law ([email protected]). All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence.
Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and ethnic minority candidates, who are under-represented in senior academic positions in Oxford.
2 The role of Associate Professor at Oxford
Associate Professor is the main academic career grade at Oxford with a focus on research and teaching, spanning the full range of professor grades in the USA. Associate Professors are appointed jointly by a University department/faculty and an Oxford college, and you will have a contract with both.
Associate Professors are full members of University departments/faculties and college governing bodies playing a role in the democratic governance of the University and their college. You will join a lively, intellectually stimulating and multi-disciplinary community which performs to the highest international levels in research and teaching, with extraordinary levels of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
There is considerable flexibility in the organisation of duties, with three 8-week undergraduate teaching terms and generous sabbatical leave to balance teaching and research (please see the Benefits, Terms and Conditions section for further details of sabbatical leave). There is the potential for temporary changes to the balance of duties between College and University to enable a focus on different aspects of work at different stages in your career.
Oxford offers many opportunities for professional development in research and teaching. Associate Professors may apply for the title of full Professor in annual exercises. If the title is conferred, you will also have access to professorial merit pay opportunities. In exceptional cases, the title of full Professor may be awarded on appointment.
Appointments are confirmed as permanent on successful completion of a review during the first five years. The vast majority of Associate Professors successfully complete this initial review.
Duties of the post
The main duties of the post are as follows:
1. to engage in research and publication at the highest level in the field of Law and Finance;
2. to give, under the direction of the Board of the Faculty of Law, not less than 36 lectures or classes and an average of 4 hours of tutorial teaching per week or broadly equivalent load in each academic year at the discretion of the Faculty;1
3. to supervise graduate students in the field of Law and Finance and in such other areas of research as may be appropriate;
4. to interact with colleagues working in cognate fields in other departments of the University, in particular the Saïd Business School, in such ways as may be appropriate;
5. to co-operate in the administrative work of the Faculty as required by the Board of the Faculty of Law, including participating in the management of the MSc in Law and Finance;
6. to participate in the graduate admissions process;
7. to examine as required by the appropriate committee for the nomination of examiners; and
1 The Faculty operates a stint system whereby an Associate Professor without Tutorial Fellowship has a teaching stint of 204 units per annum. Currently, a one-hour lecture counts as 3 stint units; a one-hour seminar counts as up to 3 stint units, depending on the number leading the seminar; and a graduate tutorial (BCL/MJur) counts as 1 unit. 3 8. For the College, to attend meetings of the Governing Body, and to act as a College Advisor to up to ten students to help them with any personal as well as academic problems which they may encounter.
Selection criteria
Your application will be judged only against the criteria which are set out below. You should ensure that your application shows clearly how your skills and experience meet these criteria.
The University is committed to fairness, consistency and transparency in selection decisions. Members of selection committees will be aware of the principles of equality of opportunity, fair selection and the risks of bias. There will be both female and male committee members wherever possible.
If, for any reason, you have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in your application, the selection committee will take this into account, recognising that the quantity of your research may be reduced as a result.
Selection criteria
Essential:
1. a doctorate in a relevant subject, or an established record of accomplishment in research and a record of high-quality research and publication in Law and Finance commensurate with their career experience;
2. evidence of potential for producing further research of international quality in Law and Finance during the tenure of the post;
3. the ability to provide outstanding teaching to high-achieving students in taught masters courses; and to provide supervision and research leadership for doctoral students;
4. the ability to play a major part in developing the Faculty’s research and teaching programme, including participating in the design of graduate-level courses and promoting the development of interdisciplinary research in Law and Finance;
5. administrative and pastoral skills, to work co-operatively with University and college administration and to deal effectively with the pastoral needs of graduate students.
Desirable:
6. a familiarity with the transactional practice of corporate and financial law and/or economic and financial analysis of corporate finance, corporate governance, and/or securities market regulation; and
7. experience of interacting and collaborating effectively with members of the legal profession in the design and delivery of innovative courses and knowledge exchange activities or policy development; or in the absence of such experience, evidence of an ability and willingness to do so.
4 How to apply
The application process is in three parts: (1) the on-line application, (2) submission of written work by e- mail, and (3) the arrangement of references to be sent to us by the closing date for applications.
The deadline for completed applications to reach the University (all three parts) is midday on Wednesday 5 June 2019.
All applications will be acknowledged after receipt and will be considered by the selection committee as soon as possible after the closing date.
Overnight accommodation can be arranged and economy travel expenses will be reimbursed.
1. On-line application
If you consider that you meet the selection criteria, click on the Apply Now button at the bottom of the ‘Job Details’ page (go to https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/academic/index/, and click on the relevant post title) and follow the on-screen instructions to register as a new user or log-in if you have applied previously. Please refer to the “Terms of Use” in the left hand menu bar for information about privacy and data protection. Please submit the following, saved as pdf files:
a statement explaining how you meet the criteria set out above using examples of your skills and experience. This may include experience gained in education or employment;
a further statement (in approximately one page) of your current and proposed research;
a full CV and publications list; and
the names and contact details of three referees whom you have asked to supply a reference by the closing date.
The University and colleges welcome applications from candidates who have a disability or long-term health condition and is committed to providing long term support. The University’s disability advisor can provide support to applicants with a disability, please see www.admin.ox.ac.uk/eop/disab/ for details. Please let us know if you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, including the provision of these documents in large print, audio or other formats. If we invite you for interviews, we will ask whether you require any particular arrangements at the interview. The University Access Guide gives details of physical access to University buildings www.admin.ox.ac.uk/access/.
Teaching commitments are mainly concentrated into Oxford’s three 8-week undergraduate teaching terms, making it easier to balance teaching and research. There is considerable flexibility in the organisation of duties, and generous sabbatical leave.
Please save all uploaded documents as PDF files to show your name and the document type.
All applications must be received by 12 noon GMT on Wednesday 5 June 2019.
Should you experience any difficulties using the online application system, please email [email protected]. Further help and support is available from www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/support/
Other queries about the application process should be addressed to [email protected].
5 To return to the online application at any stage, please click on the following link www.recruit.ox.ac.uk
Please note that at certain stages you may be notified of the progress of your application by automatic e-mails from our e-recruitment system. Please check your spam/junk mail regularly to ensure that you receive all e-mails.
2. Submission of written work
In addition, by the same deadline of 12 noon on Wednesday 5 June 2019 each candidate should submit by e-mail TWO items of written work (of about the length of a thesis chapter or article), published or unpublished. The work should be sent in a single e-mail in two pdf files to the Faculty Personnel Officer, [email protected]. In the subject of the e-mail, please quote the Vacancy Reference Number: 140527. In the case of co-authored work, please explain the nature of your own contribution.
3. References
Candidates should supply each of their referees with a copy of these further particulars and ask each referee to write directly to the Personnel Officer, [email protected] by the same deadline of noon on Wednesday 5 June 2019 References may be sent by e-mail only and need not be signed, provided they are sent from the referee’s official e-mail address (and please ask the referee to quote the Vacancy Reference Number 140527 in the subject line of their e-mail).
The Faculty of Law and the College wish to take this opportunity to thank in advance those referees who write on behalf of applicants.
The Faculty of Law
About the Faculty
The Faculty of Law is one of the largest in the United Kingdom, and is the largest unit in the Social Sciences Division of the University. There are some 180 members of the Law Faculty, of whom more than 90 are in established University academic posts. The Law Faculty has a distinguished reputation in research and publications in Law. The Research Excellence Framework 2014 reported that substantially more top-rated research activity went on in Law at Oxford than in any other university in the country. Oxford was ranked third in the world in the 2018 QS World University rankings for Law.
There are five specialised centres associated with the Law Faculty: the Centre for Criminology, the Institute of European and Comparative Law, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.
Undergraduate teaching within the Faculty There are approximately 220 undergraduates in each year-group. Most read for the three-year BA in Jurisprudence and up to 35 of these follow the Law with Law Studies in Europe course over four years, one year being devoted to study in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain or Italy. The full range of subjects taught at Undergraduate level may be found on the Faculty website here. The undergraduate programmes, including admissions, are the immediate responsibility of the Faculty’s Undergraduate Studies Committee and its Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies.
Graduate teaching within the Faculty The Faculty sustains a major graduate programme and its graduate research school is the largest of any law school in the English-speaking world. There are currently about 380 graduate students, of whom about 140 read for the taught graduate degrees of Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and Magister Juris (MJur), and a further 45 read for the MSc in Law and Finance (MLF), which is run in conjunction with the Saïd 6 Business School. Other taught graduate programmes include an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice, a part-time MSc in Taxation, an MPhil in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and a postgraduate diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice. Graduate students who undertake research degrees study towards the Degrees of Master or Doctor of Philosophy (MPhil or DPhil) in Law, Socio-Legal research or Criminology. The DPhil programmes may also be pursued on a part-time basis.
The graduate programmes, including graduate admissions, are the immediate responsibility of the Faculty’s Graduate Studies Committee and its Associate Dean for Taught Graduate Studies and Associate Dean for Research Students. The graduate cohort provides a base for a productive interaction between advanced study and research - this is something to which the Faculty attaches great importance.
Research activity The Faculty has always encouraged excellence in diversity in its research strategy, seeking to achieve the highest quality in the broad range of subjects in which Faculty members pursue their interests. The Faculty’s Research Support Fund provides resources for research assistance, conference attendance and other research-related activities. The Faculty’s Research Services team support applications for external research funding, and the Faculty provides support for conferences organised by Faculty members.
Academic staff development The University takes very seriously the development of its academics’ careers. Newly-appointed associate professors are assigned a Faculty mentor, whose role is to provide advice and guidance about research and career development plans during the probationary period, and often beyond. The University has also made arrangements under which associate professors in their initial period of office may take advantage of support in developing their teaching. A range of such support is provided by the Oxford Learning Institute (www.learning.ox.ac.uk), including:
introductory sessions for new academic staff an advisor for new associate professors peer observation of teaching attendance at learning and teaching seminars one-to-one discussion with an educational development advisor or faculty teaching representative participation in the University’s postgraduate diploma in learning and teaching self-study resources
Further information on the Law Faculty can be found at www.law.ox.ac.uk.
Faculty benefits
Start-up costs A start-up grant of £4,000 (unless the appointee currently holds an established Oxford University academic post). This may be spent at the post-holder’s discretion on any purpose connected with their academic work, for example IT equipment, research assistance, travel, conference attendance and/or book purchases. The start-up grant must be spent within three years.
Research support Grant schemes for IT equipment and research support, to which the post-holder will be eligible to apply after the first year of appointment.
7 The Bodleian Social Sciences Libraries
The Bodleian Social Sciences Libraries work collaboratively to provide subject support, collections and services to the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford, the largest grouping of social science disciplines in the UK. The Bodleian Social Sciences Libraries comprise six interdisciplinary and specialised libraries, namely the: Bodleian Social Science Library; Bodleian Law Library; Sainsbury Library at the Saïd Business School; Tylor Library for Social and Cultural Anthropology; Bodleian Education Library; and the Bodleian Latin American Centre Library. The Rewley House Library for Continuing Education is also managed within the Social Sciences Libraries Group. Together, the Bodleian Social Sciences Libraries deliver world-class services and collections to support world-leading social science research, doctoral training programmes and some of Oxford’s most widely recognised teaching programmes.
The Bodleian Law Library The Bodleian Law Library, accommodated alongside the Faculty centre in the St Cross Building, houses over a quarter of a million volumes. It receives copies of all law books published in the United Kingdom, and has extensive holdings of overseas legal publications, notably of the Commonwealth, the US, and European countries. Oxford is designated as a European Documentation Centre, and materials relevant to European law are housed in the Bodleian Law Library. It has one of the most extensive collections of domestic and foreign law databases and e-resources in the UK.
Further information about the Bodleian Law Library can be found at www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/law.
Law and Finance at Oxford
The Law Faculty, in conjunction with the Saïd Business School (‘SBS’), has for over a decade been engaged in an exciting and innovative joint programme that has created one of the world’s leading centres for interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersection of law and finance.
Both Faculties have world-class groups operating in the fields of corporate law and corporate finance, respectively. In the Law Faculty, relevant colleagues include John Armour (Professor of Law and Finance), Paul Davies (Emeritus Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law), Horst Eidenmüller (Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law), Stefan Enchelmaier (Professor of European and Comparative Law), Luca Enriques (Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law), Joshua Getzler (Professor of Law and Legal History), Chris Hare (Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law), Geneviève Helleringer (IECL Lecturer in French Law and Business Law), Jennifer Payne (Professor of Corporate Finance Law), Jeremias Prassl (Associate Professor of Law) , Kristin van Zwieten (Associate Professor of Law and Finance) and John Vella (Associate Professor of Taxation). Between them, they supervise approximately 15-20 outstanding doctoral students. Regular Faculty members are accompanied by a range of Visiting Professors including Jeffrey Gordon (Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School), Gabriel Moss QC (South Square Chambers), Richard Salter QC (3 Verulam Buildings) and Wolf-Georg Ringe (Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics, University of Hamburg) University).
In the Saïd Business School, the group of relevant colleagues includes Thomas Hellmann (Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy); Tim Jenkinson (Professor of Finance and Director of the Oxford Private Equity Institute; corporate finance, private equity), Colin Mayer CBE (Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies; corporate finance, corporate governance and financial regulation), Alan Morrison (Professor of Law and Finance, an appointment held jointly with the Law Faculty; banking, corporate finance and corporate reputation and culture), Tom Noe (Ernest Butten Professor of Management Studies; corporate governance,
8 corporate finance theory), Martin Schmalz (Associate Professor of Finance; entrepreneurship, corporate finance, governance, machine learning) and Oren Sussman (Reader in Finance; corporate finance, law and economics, corporate bankruptcy) will be joined from autumn 2009 by Mungo Wilson (Associate Professor of Finance; asset pricing, financial innovation, mutual funds); and Joel Shapiro (Associate Professor of Finance; corporate finance and labour economics).
At the core of the Law and Finance group engagement in Oxford has been the MSc in Law and Finance, which will shortly celebrate its tenth anniversary. The MLF provides outstanding students from a law background with a rigorous engagement with the area of intersection between law and finance. It combines a highly analytic academic core with tailor-made practical applications derived from continuing collaboration with professional and regulatory organisations. MLF alumni, who now number nearly 500, pursue accelerated career trajectories as practitioners, regulators or academics, respectively working in, regulating or studying this important field. In the fast-changing financial environment, the value of specific substantive knowledge depreciates rapidly. Consequently the course focuses on equipping students with an analytic toolkit that facilitates analysis and understanding from first principles, as opposed simply to the application of existing precedents. Further details about the course structure can be seen on the course website.
The MLF programme has facilitated further development of research capacity in the field of law and finance, through the appointment of two additional Associate Professors in Law and Finance (of which this post is one) and an associated University Lecturer in Finance, and by functioning as a foundation course for interdisciplinary doctoral research. The group sponsors a lively interdisciplinary Business Law Workshop, which attracts high-profile speakers from around the world, and frequently hosts interdisciplinary conferences. Joint supervision arrangements between colleagues in the Law Faculty and the Saïd Business School facilitate interdisciplinary DPhil research. Exchange arrangements between Oxford and Columbia Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Private and Comparative Law in Hamburg permit such DPhil students to have the opportunity to introduce a comparative element to their research programme by spending a semester at a partner institution under individual supervision of a leading scholar. These exchange agreements also foster comparative research at Faculty level, by facilitating faculty visits and exchanges in both directions.
Beyond the Law Faculty and the Saïd Business School, Oxford is home to a wide range of scholars and research programmes related to law and finance, including those working in the Blavatnik School of Government, the Economics Department, the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance and the Department of Politics and International Relations.
The Social Sciences Division
The University’s academic departments and faculties are organised into four large groups, known as Academic Divisions (Social Sciences, Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS), Medical Sciences, and Humanities). The academic divisions are responsible for academic oversight of the teaching and research of their constituent departments and faculties, for strategic and operational planning, and for personnel and resource management. The Head of the Social Sciences Division is Professor Sarah Whatmore, who is a member of the University’s Council. The Social Sciences Division is a world-leading centre of research and education in the social sciences. The social sciences at Oxford are distinctive for both their depth and breadth, with activity spanning fourteen departments and faculties and one cross- divisional unit. (These are as follows: Law, the Saïd Business School, Economics, Politics and International Relations, the Blavatnik School of Government, the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, International Development, Sociology, Social Policy and Intervention, the Oxford Internet Institute, Archaeology, the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Education, the School of Geography and the Environment and the Oxford Martin School). Interdisciplinary links within and beyond the university are strong, extending to the humanities, natural sciences, and medical sciences.
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Academic and research staff and research students are engaged in world-leading research that challenges current ideas and theories and is tackling some of the major challenges facing humanity, such as sustainable resource management, migration, governance, poverty and development, and justice. REF 2014 confirmed Oxford as the UK powerhouse for research in the social sciences, where Oxford accounted for more world-leading (4*) research than any other institution, across the social sciences units of assessment to which it made submissions. The division has an extensive portfolio of external funders and collaborators, with competitively-awarded external research income exceeding £40million per year. Researchers in the division engage actively beyond academia and their research has influence in many spheres from innovation in public policymaking to practitioner communities such as law, business, education, social welfare and NGOs.
The division also delivers an exceptional range of high quality educational programmes (undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research), all of which are underpinned by the innovative research being undertaken by our academics. Programmes range from those at the interface of the natural sciences, through to professionally-oriented provision in areas such as business, law and education. The division is home to several of Oxford’s most widely recognised teaching programmes, such as Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE); the BCL; the MPhils in International Relations, in Economics, and in Development Studies; the MBA and EMBA; and the nationally regarded PGCE.
For more information please visit: http://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/
Linacre College
Linacre is a vibrant and progressive post-graduate College of Oxford University. All 450 students of the College have completed a first degree and are now studying for an advanced qualification. Linacre's prime objective is to provide high quality support, both intellectual and social, for its Fellows and graduate students.
There are some 50 Fellows, the majority of whom are Professors, Readers, and Lecturers in a wide range of University Faculties. The Fellowship includes some of Oxford's most distinguished scholars. About half the student body is from overseas, representing over 50 countries; and spread across all four academic divisions of the University. The College has 19 administrative staff, three chefs and large catering and housekeeping teams.
The College was founded in 1962 to provide a community for Oxford’s growing number of international post-graduate students. It was named after Thomas Linacre, a distinguished Oxford humanist and medical scientist of the early 16th Century, whose breadth of learning symbolised the new College's multi-disciplinary purpose and ideal. In 1986 the College received its Royal Charter and is now a fully independent, self- governing, registered charity. The College is governed by its Fellows and student representatives. The College Principal has overall management responsibility for the College and its staff. He is supported by a senior management team consisting of the Vice Principal, Senior Tutor, Bursar and the Director of Development. Linacre is among the least well-endowed of the Oxford Colleges.
Linacre was the first College in Oxford to accept both men and women on an equal basis for all post-graduate degrees. It is unusual among Oxford Colleges in having no senior common room. The Fellows, staff and students share the same facilities and eat together in the dining hall in order to cultivate an egalitarian academic community. The College is family-friendly and has a strong environmental ethos.
Drawing on its current academic strengths, Linacre is making a particular contribution to the support and promotion of environmental studies in the University. In 1990 the College established a major series of public lectures on environmental issues, the Linacre Lectures; and it has close links with the University's
10 Environmental Change Institute. The College is the Oxford host of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, a lecture series held at nine of the World’s leading universities.
The College is housed in fine buildings, most of which were purpose-built, on St Cross Road, surrounded on three sides by parks and playing fields, in a convenient location on the edge of the University Science Area and within easy reach of all the main University Departments and Libraries. The College has a number of modern teaching and seminar rooms, a well-equipped gym and small but exquisite gardens.
The College is a busy academic community throughout the year. Unlike undergraduates, graduate students remain in residence for almost the entire year. The College has only two brief periods a year when the dining room and administrative offices are closed.
Additional information about Linacre is available on the College’s website: www.linacre.ox.ac.uk. About the University of Oxford
Oxford’s departments and colleges aim to lead the world in research and education for the benefit of society both in the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers engage with academic, commercial and cultural partners across the world to stimulate high-quality research and enable innovation through a broad range of social, policy and economic impacts.
Oxford’s self-governing community of international scholars includes Professors, Associate Professors, other college tutors, senior and junior research fellows and over 2,500 other University research staff. Research at Oxford combines disciplinary depth with an increasing focus on inter-disciplinary and multi- disciplinary activities addressing a rich and diverse range of issues.
Oxford’s strengths lie both in empowering individuals and teams to address fundamental questions of global significance, and in providing all staff with a welcoming and inclusive workplace that supports everyone to develop and do their best work. Recognising that diversity is a great strength, and vital for innovation and creativity, Oxford aspires to build a truly inclusive community which values and respects every individual’s unique contribution.
While Oxford has long traditions of scholarship, it is also forward-looking, creative and cutting-edge. Oxford is one of Europe's most entrepreneurial universities. It consistently has the highest external research income of any university in the UK (the most recent figures are available at www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/finance-and-funding), and is ranked first in the UK for university spin- outs, with more than 130 spin-off companies created to date. Oxford is also recognised as a leading supporter of social enterprise.
Oxford admits undergraduate students with the intellectual potential to benefit fully from the small group learning to which Oxford is deeply committed. Meeting in small groups with their tutor, undergraduates are exposed to rigorous scholarly challenge and learn to develop their critical thinking, their ability to articulate their views with clarity, and their personal and intellectual confidence. They receive a high level of personal attention from leading academics.
Oxford has a strong postgraduate student body which now numbers over 10,000. Postgraduates are attracted to Oxford by the international standing of the faculty, by the rigorous intellectual training on offer, by the excellent research and laboratory facilities available, and by the resources of the museums and libraries, including one of the world’s greatest libraries, the Bodleian.
For more information please visit www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation
11 University Benefits, Terms and Conditions
Salary
The salary will be on the scale for Associate Professors, £47,263 - £63,463 per annum.
Those appointed below the top of this salary range will receive annual increments until they reach the top point There is also an annual ‘cost-of-living’ review. In exceptional cases, the Department/Faculty board may propose the awarding of additional increments within the substantive scale to an Associate Professor at any time during their appointment.
Additional remuneration may be paid for graduate supervision, examining and some tutorial teaching. Those holding administrative appointments within the department/faculty may be eligible for additional payments.
Pension
The University offers generous pension provision. Associate Professors are usually offered membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Details are available at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/finance/epp/pensions/schemes/uss/.
Sabbatical leave
You will be eligible for sabbatical leave to allow you to focus on your research. In general, one term of leave is available for each six terms worked. This leave may either be taken as one term of leave after 6 terms of service, or accumulated and taken as one year of leave after 6 years of service.
Outside commitments
You may apply to spend up to 30 working days in each year on projects outside your employment duties, such as consultancy, spin-out activity and membership of research councils and other bodies. There is no limit to earnings from these activities without deduction from salary. Details of the approval process may be found at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/staffinfo/academic/approvaltoholdoutsideappointments/.
Guidance is also available on: ownership of intellectual property www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/regulations/182-052.shtml and managing conflicts of interest www.admin.ox.ac.uk/researchsupport/integrity/conflict/policy/
Membership of Congregation
Oxford’s community of scholars governs itself through Congregation which is its “parliament”. You will be a voting member of Congregation.
See www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/governance and www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/781-121.shtml for further details.
Family support
The University offers generous family leave arrangements, such as maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave. Details are available at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/during/family/. You will have considerable flexibility in the day-to-day organisation of duties in the Associate Professor role. Requests for flexible working patterns will be accommodated as far as possible.
You will be eligible to apply to use the University nurseries (subject to availability of places). For details of the nurseries and how to apply for places, please see www.admin.ox.ac.uk/childcare/.
12 The University subscribes to My Family Care, a benefit which allows staff to register for emergency back- up childcare and adultcare services, a 'speak to an expert' phone line and a wide range of guides and webinars through a website called the Work + Family Space. For more details, please see www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/staffinfo/benefits/family/mfc/
The Oxford University Newcomers' Club is run by volunteers, whose aim is to help the newly-arrived partners of visiting scholars, of graduate students and of newly appointed academic and administrative members of the University to settle in and to give them opportunities to meet people in Oxford. Further information is available at www.newcomers.ox.ac.uk/.
Welcome for International Staff
One of Oxford’s great strengths is its truly international body of research and teaching staff from over 140 countries, and we welcome applications from academics across the world. We can help international staff and partners/families make the transition to Oxford. Information about relocation, living and working in the UK and Oxford is available at welcome.ox.ac.uk.
If you require a visa, we have a dedicated team to support successful applicants through the immigration process (for Tier 1 and Tier 2 visas) from job offer through to arrival in the UK.
Relocation
Subject to UK tax regulations and the availability of funding, a relocation allowance may be available.
Promoting diversity
The University is committed to recruiting and retaining the best people, whoever they are, to ensure equality of opportunity. The Vice Chancellor’s Diversity Fund provides resources for innovative projects to promote diversity.
The Equality and Diversity Unit promotes good practice across the University by developing policies and offering training, and runs a range of support networks for staff. It works closely with Colleges, the Oxford University Student Union and external campaign groups. Please see www.admin.ox.ac.uk/eop/ for details.
Other benefits and discounts for University employees
The University has a range of facilities and benefits for its staff, including discounted health insurance, sustainable travel schemes, and discounts in local shops and restaurants. Details are available at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/staffinfo/benefits/ www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/staffinfo/discountsforstaff/services/
Pre-employment screening
Your appointment will be subject to the University’s standard pre-employment screening. This will include right-to-work, proof of identity, references, a pre-employment health declaration, and any other checks as applicable to the post. We advise you to read the notes for applicants at www.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/preemploymentscreening/.
Length of appointment
Appointments to Associate Professorships at Oxford are confirmed as permanent on successful completion of a review during the first five years.
13 The University operates an employer justified retirement age for all academic posts, for which the retirement date is 30 September immediately preceding the 69th birthday.
The justification for this may be found at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/end/retirement/acrelretire8+/
For existing employees, any employment beyond the retirement age is subject to approval through the EJRA procedures. Further details can be found at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/end/retirement/acrelretire8+/
Data Privacy
Please note that any personal data submitted to the University as part of the job application process will be processed in accordance with the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation. For further information, please see the University’s Privacy Notice for Job Applicants at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/compliance/gdpr/privacynotices/job/. The University’s Policy on Data Protection is available at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/compliance/gdpr/universitypolicyondataprotection/.
College Benefits, Terms and Conditions
Fellowships at Linacre are non-stipendiary but Fellows are entitled to free lunches and dinners in College when the College kitchens are open. They may also apply for small grants to assist with research expenses. Fellows are expected to co-operate in the running of the College. The main commitment is to attend meetings of the Governing Body which normally meets three times each term. There are also various standing committees of the Governing Body which require members, but this commitment is not arduous. Linacre is not able to offer Fellows personal study-bedrooms in College; but they may reserve rooms for tutorials, seminars, social functions, and to accommodate guests. There are no teaching duties but all Fellows are expected to act as College Advisors to up to ten students to help them with any personal as well as academic problems which they may encounter. The College has arrangements to assist with the entertainment of students by their Advisors. Offer of employment
Applications for this post will be considered by a selection committee containing representatives from both the Faculty of Law and Linacre College. The selection committee is responsible for conducting all aspects of the recruitment and selection process; it does not, however, have the authority to make the final decision as to who should be appointed. The final decision will be made by the Social Sciences Divisional Board and the governing body of Linacre College on the basis of a recommendation made by the selection committee. No offer of appointment will be valid, therefore, until and unless the recommendation has been approved by both the divisional board and the governing body, and a formal contractual offer has been made.
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