Call for full-time lecturer | Professor of the practice
«APPEL À CANDIDATURES PROFESSEUR À TEMPS PLEIN «PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE»
The Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional – Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ESCI-UPF) is looking to recruit a full-time lecturer with extensive professional experience in Business & Management, especially in the areas of International Contracting & Trade and Digital Business & Information Technologies. The selected candidate will teach in the Bachelor's Degree in International Business and Marketing, the Grau en Negocis i Màrqueting Internacionals, as well as in other academic programmes at ESCI-UPF and will promote the new Mention in Francophonie.
The selected candidate is expected to take the position in October 2025. Their responsibilities will include:
- Teaching in the courses offered by ESCI-UPF, with demonstrated capacity in International Trade and Contracting and Digital Transformation courses.
- Academic coordination and organisation of courses and programs offered by ESCI-UPF.
- Promotion and coordination of the new Mention in Francophonie of the Degrees in International Business and Marketing and Negocis i Màrqueting Internacionals.
- Student tutoring.
Basic requirements
- Candidates must have an accredited university degree (or have started the homologation process).
- Candidates must demonstrate a proven ability to teach in English, French, Spanish and Catalan.
- Candidates must be able to demonstrate extensive professional experience in the institution's own teaching fields.
- Candidates must have the level of Catalan required by the Catalan Law on Universities* or commit to acquiring this level within two years after taking the position.
Aspects that will be positively evaluated
- Extensive professional experience in companies’ export departments, franchising and digital consulting.
- Experience in the transfer and integration of professional practice to teaching.
- Experience in administrative and academic coordination tasks.
- Availability to start immediately.
Equal opportunities
ESCI-UPF strongly believes in the importance of diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.
Procedure
Candidates must email their curriculum vitae, letter of application, and copies of relevant documents (degrees, certificates, accreditations, and teaching evaluations) to applications@esci.upf.edu (before 25 September). Candidates must also include in their application letter the names and contact details of two references that ESCI-UPF may contact during the selection process.
The internal selection committee of ESCI-UPF will pre-select candidates based on the fulfilment of the basic requirements and the assessment of the merits provided, duly accredited.
The pre-selected candidates will be invited to an interview at ESCI-UPF, where they will be asked to present, in the required languages, their professional experience and teaching career to the internal selection committee of ESCI-UPF and an external representation of UPF.
Data protection
In accordance with the Organic Law on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD), ESCI-UPF informs all persons who wish to participate in this selection process that the personal data they send to ESCI-UPF related to their application will be stored in a database owned and controlled by ESCI-UPF. This personal data will be used exclusively to evaluate candidates' applications for recruitment purposes. All candidates have the right to request access, modification and/or deletion of their personal data, which they may exercise by writing to ESCI-UPF by post (Passeig Pujades, 1, 08003 Barcelona) or by email (esci@esci.upf.edu).
Administrative appeals
The administrative appeal procedure is established in the ESCI-UPF regulations. Any appeal must be sent to the Managing Director (esci@esci.upf.edu). The resolution of appeals will correspond to the Director of ESCI-UPF and will end the administrative process.
* Decree 128/2010, of 14 September, on the accreditation of the knowledge of languages of the teaching staff at universities within the Catalan university system.