[Jobs] Job opening: Director of the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London

[Leora Lawton]

To see a full description of this position, please got to:
http://www2.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_cityuniversity01.asp?newms=jj&id=77516&aid=14166

scroll down and click on "CCSS Director Job Pack.docx"


Closing date for applications: July 23rd, 2012 by 5pm UK time.


Excerpts from the online job description:

The Director will assume the academic and strategic leadership of the Centre and
will be the Principal Investigator of the ESS prior to the establishment of the ESS
ERIC. Once established, the Director will become the founding Director of the ESS
ERIC, responsible to its General Assembly. This requires advanced, detailed and
practical experience of survey methods and implementation in a cross-national
environment and an established track record of leadership. He or she will provide
overall strategic leadership of the ESS, design and evaluate future rounds of the
ESS and work ‘hands on’ with his or her team on the practical implementation of the
survey life cycle.

The Director will have and expect to develop an academic track record of
publications, including papers on cross-national survey methods, likely to be
assessed as world-leading or internationally-excellent in the forthcoming Research
Excellence Framework. He or she will be expected to promote the widest possible use
of ESS data and methodology.

In addition to line management responsibilities for staff within the Centre the
Director will be required to lead and/or coordinate ESS teams and committees. These
currently include staff from the six other institutions that form the ESS Core
Scientific Team (CST), the sampling expert group, the Questionnaire Design Teams,
the 21-nation ESS ERIC steering committee, the 34-nation ESS National Coordinators
Forum as well as the ESS Scientific Advisory Board and Methods Group.

The Director will be expected to oversee any unresolved stages of the ESS ERIC
application and co-ordinate the detailed operational planning required prior to the
formal start of ESS ERIC operations (anticipated to be from June 2013).

He or she will be expected to oversee the ESS infrastructure’s outreach and training
functions in collaboration with CST partners and represent the Centre within the
University and the ESS more generally at various international conferences and
events.

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Unless otherwise stated, the following attributes are essential.

Academic and Strategic Leadership

• ability to develop and articulate a persuasive vision for the future development
of the Centre and the ESS
• experience of leading and managing a large social science research project or
series of projects
• a proven track record in developing and maintaining effective international
collaborations
• ability to demonstrate a good understanding of the policy relevance of research
based on the ESS
• ability to engage effectively with a range of stakeholders including academics,
collaborators, research funders, policy makers and the wider general public both
nationally and internationally.

Research

• experience of cross-national survey design, methods and implementation
• a track record of world-leading or internationally-excellent research in
substantive and/or methodological areas covered by the ESS; and covering
cross-national survey methods and/or substantive topics
• an appreciation and awareness of the interdisciplinary scientific research that
the ESS can facilitate
• an awareness of the wider research landscape in the UK, Europe and beyond and the
place of the ESS within that
• a good knowledge of ethical, legal and regulatory issues relevant to the
collection, distribution and use of ESS data.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• a doctoral degree in a relevant social science discipline (or equivalent experience)
• management experience, particularly in managing multi-institutional partnerships
• a track record of delivering research projects to schedule and budget
• experience of managing budgets and meeting the reporting requirements of external
funding agencies
• advanced interpersonal, presentation and communications skills
• excellent negotiation, conflict resolution and influencing skills
• foreign language skills (desirable).

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For an informal discussion please contact Professor Howard Tumber, Dean of the
Schools of Arts and Social Sciences, by telephone on +44 (0) 20 7040 8503 or by
email on H.Tumber at city.ac.uk




-- 
Dr. Leora Lawton
Executive Director, Berkeley Population Center
 & Lecturer, Sociology Dept.
112A Survey Research Center
Corner Channing & Bowditch
(510) 643-1270 (office)
(510) 928-7572 (cell)