University or Organization: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Department: Department of Translation and Language Sciences
Job Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Job Title: Tenure-Track Professor
Job Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Translation

Required Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)
English (eng)
Spanish (spa)

Description:

This is a regular faculty appointment in the area of Translation Studies and English Language. Duties include research and knowledge transfer, teaching, and administrative service. We encourage applications from outstanding scientists working in the area of Translation Studies and English Language.

Research profile:
- technological applications and innovation for language learning and translator training, including but not limited to resources and applications for classroom use, corpora resources, writing assistants, intelligent tutoring systems, digital dictionaries and/or educational data mining;
- communicative skills for transferring research outcomes to the academic community as well as society at large

While pursuing their own research agenda, the candidate is expected to strengthen the Department’s research priorities and to be able to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with research groups in the Department and, more broadly, the Catalan research ecosystem. They should have a clear vision on how to apply for funding, with an ambitious but realistic plan for the next five years.

Priority will be given to candidates who provide evidence of capacity for cutting-edge research and use of state-of-the-art methods, independent of the total number of years of experience and/or current position. Merits will be assessed in proportion to the number of years since the start of the PhD.

Teaching: The appointee will teach between 120 and up to 180 classroom hours annually in undergraduate and graduate courses, including final project supervision (undergraduate, master’s and PhD dissertations). Specifically, they will be expected to coordinate teams of co-teachers as well as teach in the module of Writing and Translation from Spanish/Catalan into English in the BA degrees offered by the School of Translation and Language Sciences. In addition, they will be able to teach in other areas including “English Language”, “English Descriptive Grammar”, “Translation Technologies” and “Language Technologies”, both at the BA and Master’s level (in UPF’s Master’s in Translation Studies and Master’s in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics).

Department offer:
The standard duration of the contract is 5 years; during the 4th year the Tenure-track lecturer will undergo performance evaluation in all areas, including their commitment to the Department’s goals and needs. If performance evaluation is successful, the University will issue a call for a permanent, tenured position.

Qualifications:
Education: Applicants must hold a PhD at the time of application.

Research: candidates must have demonstrated an ability to conduct outstanding research with publications at an international level.

Teaching: Applicants must demonstrate capacity to teach at higher education levels, evidence of pedagogical skills, and a keen interest in teaching innovation. Native or near-native proficiency in spoken and written English, proficiency in written Spanish and Catalan is expected, as is adaptability to teaching in various thematic areas.

Language requirement: Applicants must be able to interact in either Spanish or Catalan with university staff and undergraduate students. New faculty are expected to attain a C1 level in Catalan (Common European Framework of Reference) within two-years of being hired.

Application Deadline: 08-Jul-2023
Mailing Address for Applications:

Web Address for Applications: http://apply.interfolio.com/125314
Contact Information:
Dep of Translation and Language Sciences
Email: [email protected]