University faculty : Economics Management Communication Politics (EMCP)
Department : Department of Social, Political, and Communication
Grade : academic assistant
Contract : renewable fixed term contract
Category : scientific personnel
Allocation : University staff
Reference : 50000895
Responsabilities
Academic environment
Located in the historic center of the City of Namur, capital of Wallonia, the University of Namur combines tradition and innovation to offer high-quality, human-centered teaching and cutting-edge research. With nearly 100 undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs, 11 research institutes, and 11 technology platforms, UNamur welcomes more than 7,500 students and doctoral students each year in its 7 faculties and has more than 1,300 staff members, including more than 800 researchers. The Faculty EMCP (Economics Management Communication Politics – www.unamur.be/emcp) has nearly 1,800 students and 250 staff members, including 40 permanent academics and 70 scientists/doctoral students, spread across 4 schools (UNamur School of Evening Studies in Economics and Management, UNamur School of Social Sciences, Politics, and Communication, Namur School of Economics, UNamur School of Management). It offers undergraduate (bachelor), graduate (master) and postgraduate (e.g., doctorate) programs in management and economics, both at day time and shift schedule. It also offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in political science and information and communication. Its members conduct cutting-edge research in numerous fields of expertise, for which continuing education (e.g., certificates) is offered.
The candidate will be part of the UNamur School of Management. The UNamur School of Management has 60 full- and part-time academic and research staff. The School offers bachelor, master, and doctoral programs, with a particular focus on topics in finance, services management, marketing, and information management. Research is organized through five research centers, and concentrates on the said topics. The School actively collaborates with many national and international institutions and companies, through research projects, seminars, consultancy and student internships.
The Center for Research in Finance and Management (CeReFiM), one of the components of the DeFIPP Research Institute (Development, Finance & Public Policies), stands as one of the centers associated with the UNamur School of Management. CeReFiM's research is mainly empirical and revolves around a wide range of topics covering, among others, financial econometrics (e.g., volatility, systemic risk, climate risk, contagion), central banking (communication policies, monetary policy transmission), macrofinance (fiscal policy, DSGE models), corporate finance (venture capital, private equity) and more recently sustainable finance (socially responsible investment, impact investing, micro-finance, sustainable portfolio management, sustainable performance and impact measures). The center includes 8 academics and 7 PhD students. The dynamism of the center has materialized in recent years through several publications in leading journals such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance or the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and through the organization of leading seminars in partnership with the various Belgian universities and the National Bank of Belgium.
Profile
Job description
The position mainly involves teaching and research duties. Teaching (in the field of finance, in a broad sense) will be carried out within the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Research (approximately 50% of the work time associated with the position) will be undertaken in finance within the CeReFiM research center.
Requirements
The applicant holds or will hold by the end of June 2025 (or by the end of September 2025 with in that case a starting date on October 1st, 2025) a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Management or in Economics (or equivalent), and is expected to have excelled in his/her curriculum (degree obtained with honours). S/he has a good command of spoken and written French and English. S/he must display excellent teaching skills. S/he wants and is able to develop an original research programme likely to lead to a doctoral degree in Economics and Management supervised by a member of the UNamur School of Management.
Additional information
Applications
The application form can be downloaded from the University of Namur website (http://www.unamur.be/universite/jobs/). The filled out form (in PDF format) should be returned before April 27th, 2025 by e-mail to Prof. Corentin BURNAY, Director of the UNamur School of Management ([email protected]), with a curriculum vitae, a short description in English of a future or past research (e.g., master’s thesis) and a motivation letter for the position, which includes teaching and research duties. Nominated candidates will be invited to a meeting with the members of the selection committee within one month of the deadline for submission of applications. More details will be announced later.
Additional information
Prof. Corentin BURNAY (Director of the UNamur School of Management), [email protected] Prof. Jean-Yves GNABO (Director of CeReFIM), +32 81 724902, [email protected]
All practical information needed by foreign candidates can be obtained from the website of the European researchers’ mobility portal (EURAXESS): https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/.
