Tata Institute of Social Sciences invites applications for the following posts via direct recruitment:

Post Name: Assistant Professor (Finance)

Essential Qualification:

(A) (i) A master degree with 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-scale wherever the grading system is followed) in a concerned/relevant /allied subject from an Indian University, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign University. (ii) Besides fulfilling the above qualifications the candidate must have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) Conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC like SLET/ SET or who are or have been awarded a Ph.D. Degree in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil /Ph.D. degree) Regulations, 2009 or 2016 and their amendments form time to time as the case may be, are exempted from NET/SLET/SET: OR

(B) The Ph.D. degree has been obtained from a foreign university/institution with a ranking among top 500 in the World University Ranking (at any time) by any one of the following:

(i) Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)

(ii) the times Higher Education (THE) or

(iii) the Academic Ranking of world Universities (ARWU) of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai).

Desirable:

• Candidates with experience of research and teaching in subjects related to finance, public policy, governance, or regulation will be preferred. A proven track record of research and teaching in quantitative methods will be an advantage. The candidate should be familiar with regulatory policies and governance with focus on financial regulation, regulatory finance, economic regulation, infrastructure policy and regulation, urban policies, environment policies, and their interface with societal realities and the preparedness to work with an interdisciplinary team and participate in theory as well as field-based teaching is a must.

• The selected incumbent is expected to teach courses linked to basic finance (basic accounts, project finance, corporate finance), regulatory finance (financial analysis with focus on regulation of public utilities and other corporates), infrastructure regulation, financial sector regulation (especially focussing on social sector finance like micro-finance, public finance), cross-cutting themes (like research methodology, quantitative methods, climate finance, urban finance) and other related courses to post-graduate students of various programmes of the School and the Institute. For candidates with degree in economics may also be expected to teach economics related courses. The candidate is also expected to guide post-graduate students for their final year dissertation thesis.

• Apart from the School-wide contribution, the selected incumbent is expected to focus on research and development of the Regulatory Policy and Governance Programme. The candidate should be able to actively contribute in developing and implementation of research in different themes of regulatory policy and governance. The candidate should be able to contribute in programme and course development. The candidate is expected to actively contribute and undertake extension work in form of professional trainings, community-based action-research projects, field-action projects, partnerships and collaboration building with regulatory professionals/ government agencies/ regulatory agencies/ industries/ national & international academic institutions.

For more details related to eligibility criteria, fee, pattern, annexure, place of posting etc. refer to the attachments below.