"Research Assistant"

Job Description:

The School of Management and Governance (SoMG) within UNSW Business School aspires to be an internationally recognized scholarly hub for generating cutting-edge, practice-based, impactful, and future-oriented knowledge. Our vision has been to establish ourselves as Australia’s leading management school by producing meaningful research that addresses a broad spectrum of management and governance-related issues, ultimately solving pressing managerial, organizational, and societal problems. We are committed to internationally leading research that adheres to the highest academic standards while allowing for diverse indicators of research excellence and success. Our mission emphasizes the importance of publishing in top-tier academic outlets, ensuring our findings reach a wide global audience and contribute to both scholarly discourse and practical applications. Faculty members engage in interdisciplinary research, bridging gaps across various fields to stimulate innovation and enhance the relevance of their work.

The School is seeking expressions of interest from qualified individuals for research assistant opportunities in the research areas of Human Resource Management (HRM), International Business (IB), Organization Behavior (OB), Organization Theory (OT), and Strategy, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship (SIE).

This role will complete a range of functions which may include:

• Perform data entry.
• Format articles.
• Collect research information.
• Check research data for errors and format data for analysis as required.
• Undertake routine supervised research support tasks consistent with established methodologies
• Cooperate with all health & safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the psychosocial or physical health and safety of yourself or others.

A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience supporting a research project.
• Demonstrated interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated time management skills.
• Proficient level of computer literacy with well-developed skills in Microsoft Office 365, research software and equivalent applications.

For further information about the role, please contact Maree Withers – m.withers@unsw.edu.au