Lecturer (NUS College) - Data Reasoning and Honours Supervision

About the role

NUS College, the honours programme of the National University of Singapore, is hiring full-time, renewable lecturer positions. The main responsibility is to teach the core competency course Reasoning with Data (RWD) together with other instructors, and to supervise Impact Experience student teams working on community service learning in Southeast Asia, and/or to teach the Global Experience course in a Southeast Asian country. Candidates from the sciences and quantitative social sciences are welcome, especially those with cross-disciplinary work and ideas on using modern AI systems where appropriate.

Key responsibilities

• Teach Reasoning with Data (RWD), bringing your own expertise so that students share a common curricular experience while each instructor adds creativity to their seminars
• Supervise 3-6 Impact Experience teams in a Southeast Asian country (excluding Singapore) and/or teach the Global Experience course there on a rotational basis
• Offer 2-3 sections of RWD per academic year, design an elective of your own, and take on a small load of independent study supervision

Required profile

• PhD degree
• Ability to teach a course such as RWD
• Community networks in field sites in Southeast Asia are preferred
• Candidates with cross-disciplinary work and ideas on using modern AI systems to address social, environmental and developmental problems in Singaporean and Southeast Asian contexts

Application process

• Submit a cover letter naming the position, an abridged CV (max 5 pages), scanned copies of academic degrees, a teaching statement (preface under 300 words, then up to 2,000 words), teaching evaluations and peer reviews, a syllabus proposal (max 500 words) and a pedagogical innovation statement (max 500 words)
• Four referee letters, one of whom must be the applicant's PhD supervisor
• Interviews are normally held online; only shortlisted applicants are notified

What we offer

• Remuneration and benefits highly competitive on the global research university level
• Expatriate benefits may include travel assistance from overseas and limited housing benefits
• Three-year contract renewable on good performance, with a pathway to promotion to Associate Professor on an open contract and opportunities for pedagogical research funding