Associate Professor - BRAC Institute of Languages

Full time on site
Associate Professor - BRAC Institute of Languages
Job Description

Requirements

Education

Excellent academic credentials: PhD from a highly reputed/accredited foreign university with outstanding performance (for other degrees too) and international academic experience

Additional Requirements
  • Relevant and significant experience in leading educational institutions

  • Portfolio of high-quality and impactful research and scholarly work

  • Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills in English

  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with different stakeholders

  • Excellent organizational skills and professionalism

  • Impeccable ethical standards

Candidates with research publications or specializations in the areas given below will have priority:

  • Transformative language policy and planning

  • Affective language education

  • Curriculum development and evaluation

  • Psycholinguistics and language acquisition and learning

  • EAP and ESP

  • Materials development and evaluation for minoritized learners

  • Critical pedagogy

  • Language testing and assessment

  • Language and class, gender, religion, nation, style, varieties, identity, etc.

  • Linguistic rights of indigenous and minority communities

  • English language education for sustainable development, social justice, and equity

  • Language, space, and mobility

  • English language education, technology, and artificial intelligence

  • Medium of instruction

  • Language, language education and trans-movement

  • Critical Discourse Analysis

  • Pragmatics

  • Language and translation

  • Language education management and leadership

  • Innovation in language education

  • Quantitative research in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics

  • Language education, decoloniality, and Southern epistemologies


Responsibilities & Context

BRAC University (BRACU), a pioneer in liberal arts education in Bangladesh, invites applications from qualified candidates to join its esteemed faculty team. With a commitment to fostering innovation and meeting the demands of contemporary education, BRACU stands as one of the leading private universities in Bangladesh, accredited by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and approved by the Ministry of Education.

BRAC Institute of Languages (BIL), the foremost entity for language education of BRAC University, invites applications for full-time (permanent) faculty positions in the disciplines of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, English language teaching, teaching English to speakers of other languages, or language education management and leadership at the ranks of Associate Professor. The successful candidate is required to have a doctoral degree from a highly reputable university in a field related to the discipline/area of teaching and evidence of potential/actual (commensurate with the rank) scholarship/professional engagement related to that area. All selected candidates will contribute to teaching, research and service.


Compensation & Other Benefits

BRAC University offers an attractive salary and benefits package commensurate with prevailing market standards.

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Dhaka