University of Oslo

The University of Oslo is Norway’s oldest and highest rated institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.

The Department of Informatics (IFI) is one of nine departments belonging to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.. IFI is Norway’s largest university department for general education and research in Computer Science and related topics. The Department has near 950 students on bachelor level, near 450 master students, and over 180 PhD students. The overall staff of the Department is close to 250 employees, about 200 of these are full time positions. The full time scientific staff is 60, mostly Full/Associate Professors.

Job description

The adjunct (20% professor) position is available at the Department of Informatics, section for Digitization and Entrepreneurship.

The Digitization and Entrepreneurship is a new section engaging several groups in interdisciplinary research on digitalization, innovation, entrepreneurship and design of technology with a strong focus on sustainability. The section partakes in several study programs Informatics: Design, Use and Interaction (Bachelor and Master), Entrepreneurship (Master), ICT and Management (Executive Master), and Digital Economy and Management (Bachelor).

We are looking for an Adjunct Professor, internationally recognized within the field of Information Systems, who can strengthen our research on digitalization, digital innovation, digital platforms, and related themes. It will be an advantage if the candidate can demonstrate high level of competence in engaged scholarship research, scholarly publications, and an excellent track record of supervising PhD students. We wish to open for a strong research collaboration within the section that can improve its capacity to publish in leading international journals and strengthen the quality of PhD-students’ work.

Qualification requirements

The candidate for this position will be selected based on excellence and fit with the section’s research profile. The successful candidate needs to have the following qualifications:

• Full professorship in Information Systems
• Demonstrated recent publishing in leading IS journals
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to acquire research project funding

We offer

• salary NOK 731 400 - 848 800 (20 %) NOK per year depending on qualifications in position as Adjunct Professor (position code 8013).
• a professionally stimulating working environment
• attractive welfare benefits and a generous pension agreement, in addition to Oslo’s family-friendly environment with its rich opportunities for culture and outdoor activities

How to apply

The application must include:

• A cover letter (maximum one-page statement of motivation and interests in seeking the position)
• CV (summarizing education, positions, academic work, scientific publications, funding and awards)
• A complete list of publications.
• A full text of the 10 most important publications
• Description of PhD candidates supervision
• Description of qualifications of administration/leadership
• Description of qualifications in communication
• List of documents that are attached
• Other qualifications

Please send the documents as PDF-files (maximum 2 MB / file).

In the evaluation of the qualified candidates the full range of these criteria will be explicitly addressed and assessed.

The application, with attachments, is to be delivered through our electronic recruiting system.

Formal regulations

The successful candidate who at the time of appointment cannot document basic teaching qualifications will be required to obtain such qualifications within a two-year period.

Please see the rules for Appointments to Professorships and Associate Professorships and Rules for the assessment and weighting of pedagogical competence.

According to the Norwegian Freedom and Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.

The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results etc.

The University of Oslo aims to achieve a balanced gender composition in the workforce and to recruit people with ethnic minority backgrounds.

Contactinformation

• Margunn Aanestad, margunn@ifi.uio.no, +47 22852545
• For technical questions about the recruitment system, please contact HR Officer Helene Jansen, h.b.jansen@mn.uio.no, +47 22857196

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