Post Specification
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Preparing and teaching tutorials for
undergraduate courses;
2. Coordinating student academic
activities;
3. Undertaking other assignment assigned
by the supervisor;
4. Providing research assistance to
professors;
5. Replicating research papers assigned by
the supervisor.
Qualifications and Requirements:
1. Should at least have a Bachelor degree
in economics, finance, mathematics, computer science, or related fields;
2. Should be competent in mathematics,
subject to passing a written test of mathematical skills;
3. Should have good teaching and communication
skills;
4. Should be competent in both written and
spoken English;
5. Must have the ability of working
independently and the spirit of team work;
6. Should honestly demonstrate working
knowledge of software packages, which include but are not limited to
Stata/Matlab/SAS/R/Python;
7. Would be willing to take up extra
responsibilities, if needed.
Salary and Benefits
Salary will be competitive, commensurate
with qualifications and experience. Appointments will be made under the
establishment of CUHK-SZ and statutory benefits will be provided according to
the prevailing labor laws applicable in the PRC. The appointee will be based at
the University campus in Shenzhen, PRC.
Application Procedure
Please send full curriculum vitae together
with copies of qualification documents, and at least three references by email
to: hr@cuhk.edu.cn
The potential benefits of the research
assistant part of this position include accessibility to faculty members who
have successful experience in publishing in top-tier economics journals in
diverse fields in economics[1] and the possibility of collaborative work with
the economics faculty members. All of these are highly valued by the admission
committees in internationally reputable economics/finance Ph.D. programs.[2]
[1] See, for instance, American Economic
Review, Econometrica, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Development
Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of
International Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public
Economics, just to name a few.
[2] In AY21-23, members of this position
accepted offers from reputable PhD programs in Cornell University, The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Connecticut, The
University of Virginia, Université de Lausanne, Università della Svizzera
italiana, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
(Geneva, Switzerland), ESSEC Business School, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, National University of
Singapore, Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), just to name a
few.
