Senior Lecturer / Lecturer: Financial Risk Management at Stellenbosch University

Duties/Pligte        

• Teaching and developing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Financial Risk Management;
• Participating and taking a leading role in the Department's research activities in Financial Risk Management;
• Supervision of postgraduate students;
• Assisting with the Department's liaising with the financial industry and enhancing and expanding industry ties and collaboration.

 (Lecturer):

• Teaching and developing undergraduate courses in Financial Risk Management.
• Participating and taking in the Department's research activities in Financial Risk Management.
• Study guidance of Honours students.
• Assisting with the Department's liaison with the financial industry and expanding of it    

(Senior Lecturer):

The post of Senior lecturer must fulfill any of (1), (2), or (3) at a minimum.

• A coursework master's degree in the Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, Financial Mathematics), or a quantitative-related degree.
• At least five years' experience and engagement with public or private organisations, consulting activities, or policy that demonstrate management, leadership, expertise and/or thought leadership in the field of Quantitative Financial Risk Management/Analysis; 
• A commitment to commence with a PhD in Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, or Financial Mathematics) within 18 months of appointment.

OR a PhD in the Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, or Financial Mathematics);

OR a recognised fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa with at least a Master's degree.

• For any candidate fulfilling (1) or (2) or (3) - proven practical experience in discrete-time processes ("P quant") and/or proven technical research output within the quantitative Financial Risk Management/Analysis field.  This position is not considering specialists in continuous risk-neutral processes ("Q quant").
• The incumbent fulfilling (1) or (2) or (3) must have the ability to function effectively in a multilingual environment where Afrikaans and English are the dominant languages.

 (Lecturer):

• Completed/submitted (by the time of appointment) at least a Master's degree by coursework in Mathematical Sciences (Financial Risk Management, Mathematical Statistics, Financial Mathematics or a quantitative-related degree);
• The ability to teach Financial Risk Management at undergraduate level
• Proven teaching experience in discrete-time processes ("P quant"), including computer programming competencies therein;
• The ability to function effectively in a multilingual environment where Afrikaans and English are the dominant languages.