Job Opportunity: Social Innovation Faculty Member
The University of Waterloo’s new initiative in social innovation generation is seeking one new tenure track faculty member (level open) to start September 2010. Social Innovation Generation (www.sig.waterloo.ca ) is a new initiative funded by the J.W McConnell Family Foundation that is designed to build knowledge and expertise concerning the dynamics of successful social innovation, including the role of social and institutional entrepreneurs, government policy and social finance. SiG at Waterloo is the think tank associated with a Canada wide initiative to support and build capacity for social innovation in this country.
The right candidate will have a PhD in Business/Management, Entrepreneurship, Economics, System Design or Social Science and a strong research background, with particular emphasis on innovation in complex systems. Other related research areas might include, innovation management, institutional entrepreneurship, transformational leadership, strategy process (as it relates to innovation), organizational design, organizational behaviour, collaborative management, resilience in complex systems or whole system change. The ideal candidates will be interested in being part of problem solving teams, comfortable working in an interdisciplinary research and teaching context and interested in supporting applied projects. Particular evidence of interest in knowledge application and willingness to be involved in change initiatives nationally and in the community will also be valued.
The new faculty member will work with the J.W McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, a team of six graduate students and other associated and full time faculty. He or she will collaborate with researchers across campus in such interdisciplinary centres as the Centre for Science, Technology and Society, Centre for Sustainability in Business, Centre for Knowledge Integration and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He or she will help to launch a new graduate and undergraduate curriculum in social innovation and transformational leadership at the University of Waterloo. The position is associated with Social Innovation Generation and with the department of Communication, Leadership and Social Innovation in the Faculty of Arts. However we welcome cross-department or cross-faculty appointments and the successful candidate will be encouraged to locate part of their position in another department or centre if they so desire.
Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled. Send a letter of application stating the nature of your interest in this position, your curriculum vitae and three letters of reference to: Professor Frances Westley, Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo, 195 King Street, Suite 202, Kitchener, Ontario N3G 1B1, Canada, or email your full application to cmombour@uwaterloo.ca, with the subject line SiG Faculty posiiton. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities.
