Post Specification
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Providing
research assistance to professors, including collecting data, analyzing data,
and building mathematical models in the area of operations management/business
analytics/ information systems;
2.
Replicating research papers assigned by the supervisor;
3. Assisting
in tutorials for undergraduate courses;
4.
Preparation of teaching materials/classes;
5. Student
consultation/supervision and coordinating student academic activities;
6.
Undertaking other assignments assigned by the supervisor.
The job will
provide employees decent training in research and teaching. In general, we
expect 50% work related to research assistance and 50% related to teaching
assistance. Employees will have the opportunity to work closely with our
world-class faculty members and build up academic connections. Therefore, we
especially welcome applicants who want to pursue a teaching career or apply for
a PhD program.
Qualifications
and Requirements:
1. A
bachelor’s or higher degree in operations management, information systems,
economics, statistics, mathematics, industrial engineering, operations
research, computer science, or any other related field;
2. Good
communication skills;
3. Fluent
English, both written and spoken;
4. The
ability of working independently, as well as the spirit of team work;
5.
Preferably the knowledge of econometrics, optimization, mathematical modeling,
data mining, and/or Python and R programming.
About the
School:
School of
Management and Economics (SME), CUHK-Shenzhen was established in 2014, with a
mission to advance our understanding of economics and management and to develop
innovative, forward-thinking, globally-minded, and principled leaders who
strive for the betterment of business and society.
Consistent
with our mission, SME attaches great importance to both research and teaching
and is one of the few AACSB accredited business schools in China. Student recruiting is also
highly selective. The SME student body ranks in the top 1% across China,
equivalent to the very best Chinese universities, and our students truly
treasure opportunities for international experience and exposure.
SME
currently has more than 100 faculty members, all recruited from overseas with
PhD degrees from internationally renowned universities with strong research
backgrounds. Most senior faculty of SME have experience of working as tenured
professors in overseas universities, such as Princeton University, University
of Southern California, Ohio State University, University of Arizona,
University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of New South Wales,
University of Hong Kong, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin. For
more information, please visit our website https://sme.cuhk.edu.cn/.
Salary and
Benefits
Salary will
be competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Appointments
will be made under the establishment of CUHK-SZ and statutory benefits will be
provided according to the prevailing labor laws applicable in the PRC. The
appointee will be based at the University campus in Shenzhen, PRC.
Application
Procedure
Please send
full curriculum vitae together with copies of qualification documents, and up
to three references (optional for initial screening) by email to:
hr@cuhk.edu.cn