General Job Description
The post
Applicants should have experience in international health policy and finance, and are likely to
have a background in economics, policy, statistics or medicine or public health with social science
training.
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An applicant for appointment as a Full Professor should have a strong international
reputation for their research.
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An applicant for appointment as an Associate Professor should have a strong track
record of research and publication in leading international journals.
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An applicant for appointment as an Assistant Professor should be able to show that they
have started to develop such a track record.
The post will be situated within the health management group in the School’s department of
management. The successful applicant will contribute to the growth of the group’s teaching
programme and develop their own research interests within the ambitions of the group. They will
be highly motivated, demonstrating excellent teaching and research skills.
Persons appointed to academic posts in Imperial College Business School will be expected to:
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Enhance the reputation of the Business School by publishing in top journals, attracting
external research funding and supervising PhD students.
Engage in and develop high quality core teaching.
Contribute to administration of the School.
Participate in the School’s intellectual life and foster collegiality.
Applicants will be assessed against the following person specifications:
Requirements
Expertise and research interests in health economics or international health policy /
health systems
A completed PhD in a relevant subject
A proven ability to publish in internationally leading journals
A clear and viable strategy for future outstanding research with the potential to
result in world-leading publications
Evidence of having raised research funds from national, European and / or
international funding bodies or other appropriate sources
Coherent research agenda and plans to raise research funding
Ability to undertake research that has impact and ability and willingness to engage
in knowledge exchange
Willingness to engage in collaborative research
A commitment to high quality teaching and fostering a positive learning
environment for students
Ability to teach health economics or international health policy / systems at
postgraduate level
E/D
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D
(Assistant
Professor)
E
(Associate
and Full
Professor)
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E
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E
Experience in teaching health economics or international health policy / systems at
postgraduate level
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to place one's
specialist work within a broader social science context
A commitment to work as part of a team in assisting the smooth running of the
Group and its research and teaching programmes
D
E
E
E – Essential: Requirements without which the job could not be done.
D – Desirable: Requirements that would enable the candidate to perform the job well.
About the Health Management Group
We are an interdisciplinary research and teaching group working on economic, management and
policy aspects of health systems, including governance, operational, financing and innovation
management issues. The group’s members are highly active in research to inform policy and
practice at global, national and local levels.
Our core teaching programme is the MSc in International Health Management. This is a one-year
programme combining business-focused teaching and cutting-edge research to provide essential
management skills for those seeking a career in global healthcare. The health group’s members
also teach on several other programmes, including the BSc Medicine, Masters in Public Health,
MBA and Executive Education.
The group’s academics and researchers collaborate closely with other Imperial College
healthcare research centres and the Faculty of Medicine in research and teaching.
Imperial College Business School
Imperial College Business School is one of four schools at the prestigious Imperial College
London. The Business School delivers world class business education and research at one of the
world’s leading universities. Imperial College Business School has over 70 academic staff, 40
research staff, and 120 professional support staff. It educates close to 1200 students in a variety
of MBA, MSc, undergraduate and PhD programmes and has a thriving non degree Executive
Education programme portfolio. Its MSc in Management is ranked number one in the UK by the
Financial Times and all its programmes are in the top 10 nationally.
Programmes
Imperial College Business School offers the following programmes.
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A suite of MBA programmes:
– Full-time MBA
– Executive MBA
– Global MBA
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Specialist Masters programmes:
– MSc Management
– MSc Finance
– MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management
– MSc Economics and Strategy for Business
– MSc Strategic Marketing
– MSc International Health Management
– MSc Risk Management and Financial Engineering
– MSc Actuarial Finance
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Doctoral Programmes in Finance and Management
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The Business School offers undergraduate programmes to students of the other schools at
Imperial College:
– Joint Honours programme with selected science departments
– BSc in Management for the Medical School
– Service teaching for undergraduate engineers and scientists.
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Executive Education programmes that are customised to the leading clients in the UK and the
world, and open programmes on the expertise of Imperial College Business School.
Research and faculty composition
Since 2003, Imperial College Business School has grown substantially, with major investment by
Imperial College. Reflecting Imperial strengths in science, technology, and medicine, the
Business School is currently organised into three departments – Finance, Innovation &
Entrepreneurship and Management.
Management
Department
This department is diverse and consists of:
 Strategy
 Applied Economics
 Organizational Behaviour
 Marketing
 Operations Management
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Managerial Accounting
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Health Management
The department’s research covers a number of areas, including radical
innovation in hi-tech contexts such as e-commerce, banking,
pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, and the strategic ramifications of
technology evolution in digital consumer goods. Other researchers focus on
more eclectic topics such as the management of professional service firms
and developing computationally efficient algorithms to enable the use of
optimisation based decision support systems in operational planning and
scheduling of resources. In health, researchers work closely with Imperial’s
faculties of medicine and engineering on health economics and policy,
public health, healthcare informatics, and healthcare infrastructure.
Finance
Department
The department is very active in finance research and has particular
strengths in derivative pricing, capital markets research, credit risk
modelling, risk management and financial econometrics.
The Group aims to build highly active research groups in:
 Asset Pricing
 Risk Management and Financial Engineering
 Corporate Finance
 Banking and Financial Policy
Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
Department
It hosts the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis, newly established
with a donation of £20 million and the Risk Management Laboratory.
This department provides the focus for our work on innovation and
entrepreneurship. The core research of the Centre focuses on technological
innovation with a particular emphasis on engineering, design, sciencebased industries, health-care technology and on the built environment.
Much of the research is organized around centers of excellence including:
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Enterprise Research Centre
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UK Innovation Research Centre
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Rajiv Gandhi Centre on UK-India Business
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Entrepreneurial Family Research Centre
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Digital City Exchange
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Digital Economy Lab
Imperial College
Imperial College London consistently achieves one of the highest rankings nationally and
internationally, being placed in the top 10 by the Times Higher QS World University Rankings
2012-2013. The President, Professor Alice P Gast, is the College’s academic head and chief
executive officer. Academic affairs of Imperial College are managed by the Provost, James
Stirling FRS. The Chair of the Court, which is the College’s executive body, and Council is
currently Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller.
Mission
Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in
science, engineering, medicine, and business with particular regard to their application in
industry, commerce and healthcare. We foster interdisciplinary working within the College, and
collaborate widely externally.
The academic structure of Imperial College is divided into four schools:
 Engineering
 Natural Sciences
 Medicine
 Business
Strategic intent
 To remain a world-leading institution for scientific research and education
 To harness the quality, breadth and depth of our research capabilities to address the difficult
challenges of today and the future
 To develop the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics
 To provide an education for students from around the world that equips them with the
knowledge and skills they require to pursue their ambitions
 To make a demonstrable economic and social impact through the translation of our work into
practice worldwide
 To engage with the world and communicate the importance and benefits of science to society
Formation and history
Imperial College was established in 1907 in London’s scientific and cultural heartland in South
Kensington, as a merger of the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the
Royal School of Mines. St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and the National Heart and Lung
Institute merged with the College in 1988 and 1995 respectively.
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School
merged with the College on 1 August 1997 to form, with the existing departments on the St
Mary’s and Royal Brompton campuses, the Faculty of Medicine. In 2007, the Imperial College
Healthcare NHS Trust, was formed by merging Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals’ NHS
Trusts with the College, forming the country’s largest NHS Trust. This also established the UK’s
first Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) bringing together healthcare services, teaching
and research for maximum synergistic benefits.
Imperial College was an independent constituent part of the University of London until July 2007,
when it was granted a new royal charter declaring it an independent university in its own right.
Staff and students
The academic and research staff of 3,397 includes 72 Fellows of the Royal Society, 83 Fellows of
the Royal Academy of Engineering, 81 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences, three
Fellows of the British Academy, four Crafoord Prize winners and two Fields Medalists. Fourteen
Nobel Laureates have been members of the College either as staff or students.
The College has 14,414 students, of whom 39% are postgraduate. 31% of students come from
outside the European Union. External assessment of the College’s teaching quality in many
different subject areas has been judged to be of high standard. The proportion of women
students is 37% of the total.
Research
The quality of the College’s research has been judged consistently to be of the highest
international standard and the proportion of income from research grants and contracts is one of
the highest of any UK university. The strength of research in science, engineering, medicine and
business gives the College a unique and internationally distinctive research presence.
Generous support for the College’s work comes from a wide variety of sources. From industry
there are donations towards certain senior academic posts, advanced courses, bursaries and
scholarships. The single largest contribution to the College from industrial concerns is in the form
of contracts to carry out research. The College also gains considerable research support from
research councils and charities.
Teaching and learning
The College’s overall educational aim is to ensure a stretching and exhilarating learning
experience and, while maintaining its traditional emphasis on single honours degree courses, it
also aims to give students the opportunity to broaden their experience through courses relevant
to student and employer needs.
In its MSc course provision, the College seeks to provide a wide range of specialist courses in
areas in which it has particular expertise. In addition, the College’s wide range of PhD
programmes reflect its aim of pursuing research at the frontiers of scientific, engineering,
management and medical knowledge and the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of this
research.
The Centre for Educational Development raises and consolidates the profile of learning, teaching
and educational development throughout the College. Newly-appointed non-clinical lecturers
must enroll on the Certificate of Advanced Study for Learning and Teaching, and there are many
learning and teaching activities for more experienced staff.
The Graduate School is the focus of postgraduate education and research and maintains,
enhances and monitors quality, disseminates best practice, while initiating and developing new
programmes, particularly those with an interdisciplinary slant. The College’s teaching quality is
audited regularly, both internally and externally. Recent external audit found teaching quality to
be of a high standard.