Senior Lecturer in Social Work - Befattningen är under tillsättning eller redan tillsatt, och det är inte längre möjligt att lämna in en ansökan

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

The Department of Social Work is calling for applicants for one or more positions as a senior lecturer in social work. The position is located in Umeå and requires attendance at the workplace during working hours. At the Faculty of Social Sciences, senior lecturers are assigned 20% continuing professional development time and for lecturers with qualifications required for appointment as a docent, 30% continuing professional development time is currently allocated.

Tasks
The primary tasks consist of teaching, course development, supervision, examination, course administration and course responsibility for undergraduate- postgraduate- and PhD programmes at the Department of Social Work. Some teaching may be done in contract education. The teaching can include both on-campus and online/distance courses. Teaching is mainly done in Swedish, but some teaching may be done in English. The work also includes monitoring development in the subject area. An important aspect of all teaching at the Department is its connection to research. Tasks therefore include participating in the Department’s research profiles and assisting in developing research in the Department through applying for external funding.

Qualifications
Eligibility for employment as a Senior Lecturer according to Chapter 4 Section 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance is available to a person who has demonstrated teaching expertise and been awarded a PhD or has the corresponding research competence or some other professional expertise that is of value in view of the subject matter of the post and the duties that it will involve.

Assessment criteria and weight given to each criteria
A PhD in social work is a particularly useful qualification. Those with a PhD in another subject area but with a specialisation that is relevant to the subject area of social work may also be considered.
Assessment criteria in the selection comprise the degree of research and educational expertise where they are assigned equal importance in the assessment.

In the assessment of research expertise, particular importance is placed on the ability to conduct and publish high-quality research and the ability to contribute to research development in the subject area of social work.

In the assessment of the educational expertise, particular importance is placed on documented experience and evaluation of teaching in the subject area of social work, educational development in the scope of educational programmes and courses, supervision and examination in first- and second-cycle education, work as a doctoral supervisor and educational leadership.

A useful qualification for the position is the completion of a course in teaching and learning in higher education or the equivalent. If equivalent qualifications are cited, they must be presented and confirmed. 

Additional assessment criteria are documented experience of leadership and positions of trust in universities, documented professional experience of professional social work and documented experience of collaboration with the rest of society and providing information on research and development work.

Of these additional assessment criteria, experience of leadership and positions of trust is assigned the greatest qualification value, followed by experience of professional social work, then documented experience of collaboration with the rest of society and providing information on research and development work.

The recruitment process may include interviews, trial lectures and verifications of references provided.

About the Department of Social Work
The Department of Social Work is expansive and currently has some 70 employees. The Department is responsible for education in the social work programme, master’s programmes in social work and a large number of independent courses and contract education. We also work with other educational programmes, such as the police training programme. Further information on our activities is available on our website, http://www.socw.umu.se/.

Application
Please apply using our electronic recruitment system. Log in and search using the button at the bottom of the page. Instructions for what the application must contain can be found in the Anställningsordning för lärare vid Umeå universitet (Rules of procedure for employing lecturers at Umeå University), here, and for the format of your application, instructions can be found in Samhällsvetenskapliga fakultetens anvisningar (the Faculty of Social Sciences Instructions), here.