School for Environmental and Social Studies is accepting applications for the open-rank faculty positions

 The School for Environmental and Social Studies (AnthropoSchool) at the University of Tyumen (Russia, West Siberia) is accepting applications for the open-rank faculty positions (6 vacancies). The workload includes research on the interactions between society and the environment, teaching mandatory  disciplines in the university core, undergraduate and/or graduate programs. The contracts are for 2 years and renewable. The funding comes from the federal Priority 2030academic excellence program operative until 2030. All labor contracts require relocation to Tyumen.

Salary Range (after taxes):

senior researcher - starting from 100 K RUB per month,

researcher - from 70 K RUB per months,

junior (pre-doctoral) researcher - from 50 K RUB per month.

While our ranges may seem low in international currencies, the cost of living (50% of the one in Prague and 35% of Kansas city) needs to be taken into consideration. For details, please, consult the cost of living calculator at Numbeo. Our faculty also supplement the income with Russian grants which allow to deduce money towards the salary of investigators. In addition, successful applicants will participate in the UTMN-wide program of partial reimbursement of housing rent for incoming faculty.

Positions are open in both Natural Sciences and Humanities.

Particularly, we are looking for faculty in:

Social and Cultural Anthropology

Human Geography

Digital Humanities: the Big Data specialists and GIS

Climatology

Sociology

Environmental Humanities and the Anthropocene Studies

Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage, Tourism

Environmental Management

Requirements for applicants:

Academic degree (Candidate / Doctor of Science or PhD) or late ABD,

Min. 2 publications in journals indexed by Scopus or Web of Science in the last 3 years

Min. one year of teaching experience (including TA-ships),

Experience in organizing academic events,

Experience of working in projects supported by grant funding, and readiness to apply for grants

Fluency in Russian and English is expected for professional communication and teaching.

When selecting candidates, the School highly respects gender diversity and assumes the obligation of non-discrimination on the basis of gender, national, sexual, racial and religious identity.

Selected candidates are expected to participate in the School's sub-project within the Priority 2030 academic excellence program  Sustainable Development of the Macro-Region: "Smart" Areas offering a High Quality of Life.

We also expect selected candidates to participate in the development of new educational programs of the School: the joint "Society and the Environment" undergraduate program, at an MA in the Anthropocene Studies and Environmental Humanities.

To apply for this position, please, send by March 10, 2022to the email address AnthropoSchool@utmn.ru the following items:

academic CV (1-2 pages),

a brief description of how your current or future study will fit into the Priority 2030 subproject Sustainable Development of the Macro-Region: "Smart" Territories offering a High Quality of Life" or other projects of the School.

Interviews can be conducted in both face-to-face or online formats, in Russian and English.

Before submitting an application, we recommend you to consider the following information:

School of Environmental and Social Studies website: http://anthropo.school/

The organization of the university core at Tyumen: https://www.utmn.ru/obrazovanie/iot,

The Priority 2030 Program: https://www.utmn.ru/priority2030 .