Junior Research Fellowship University of Oxford

August 25, 2008

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The Faculty of Oriental Studies has approximately 45 post holders teaching the
language, literature, history, thought, and material cultures of the many civilizations of the
Near and Middle East, South and Inner Asia, and East Asia. The faculty’s physical centre is
the Oriental Institute in Pusey Lane in central Oxford, where many of the teachers and other
academic post holders have their working rooms. It also houses the faculty’s main offices,
seminar and lecture rooms, a common room, and a lending library with open access to about
40,000 volumes, which is administered as a dependent library of the Bodleian.

6.
Applications for this post will be considered by a selection committee containing
representatives both from the University and from the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies. Where suitably qualified individuals are available, selection committees will contain
at least one member of each sex.

Terms and Conditions
7.
The salary will be £27,466, equivalent to the first point on grade 07S G7 Standard for
Academic and Academic-related staff. The Junior Fellow may be offered residential
accommodation by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Yarnton Manor.

8.
The Statutes and Regulations of the University record the extent of the University’s
claims to intellectual property, and the proportions in which exploitation revenues are shared
with researchers. Copies of the relevant extracts are available on request.

9.
The University of Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies are
equal opportunities employers. Subject to statutory provisions, no applicant or member of
staff will be treated less favourably than another because of his or her sex, marital status,
racial group, disability, or sexual orientation.

10.
All data supplied by applicants will be used only for the purposes of determining their
suitability for the post and will be held in accordance with the principles of the Data
Protection Act 1998 and the University’s Data Protection Policy.

11.
Applications should reach the office of:
Sue Forteath
Academic Administrator
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Yarnton Manor
Yarnton
Oxford, OX5 1PY
UK
E-mail: enquiries[at]ochjs.ac.uk
no later than 15 September 2008.
Applications should comprise:
(i) a curriculum vitae.
(ii) a statement of proposed research and its relation to the candidate’s experience and
qualifications.
(iii) the names and contact details of three referees. Candidates could indicate the
capacity in which their referees have gained knowledge of their work and should
ask referees to send their letters of recommendation directly to the above
address by the same date.
It is anticipated that interviews will take place in late September/early October 2008. The
Centre will pay reasonable travel costs for interview where applicable. Initially, candidates
from overseas may be interviewed by telephone or video conference. The appointment will
be subject to satisfactory completion of a medical questionnaire and securing proof of the
right to work in the UK.