Research Assistant vacancy at Uva Wellassa University

Job Description

VACANCIES Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Development Oriented Research (DOR) Grants Department of Management Sciences Faculty of Management Uva Wellassa University

Department of Management Sciences Faculty of Management Uva Wellassa University

A research group attached to Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Management, Uva Wellassa University has secured a research grant worth LKR 10 million for a research project to investigate how social entrepreneurship leads for sustainable outcomes within Sri Lankan social enterprises. Under this project, we intent to recruit one Research Assistant and the required qualifications are as follows:

Educational and other Qualifications:

Position of Research Assistant(Full time)

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in any management and business related degree
• Completion of a management and business related postgraduate studies would be an added advantage.

Job responsibilities:

• Competent in data analysis techniques (both qualitative and quantitative)
• Fluent in academic writings
• Preparing the progress reports on every month
• Reporting the progress of the project to the internal supervisors, on weekly basis
• Conduct project administrations on daily basis

Salary Particulars:

The Research Assistant will be paid approximately Rs. 63,250.00 (all-inclusive salary) per month for one year period.

Benefits:

Selected candidates for the mentioned position will contribute 8% from their monthly salary to the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) while the AHEAD/DOR grant will make a contribution of 15% of their salary of which 12% will be credited to Employee Provident Fund (EPF) and 3% to the Employee Trust Fund (ETF).

Method of Application:

Self-prepared application along with detailed CV including academic and professional qualifications shall be emailed to janaka@uwu.ac.lk on or before 07th December 2021 (mention email subject as Vacancies for Research Assistant). Please note that the, University reserves the right to shortlist the candidates. Applications, which do not meet the requirements, and applications, which reach after the closing date, will be rejected without intimation.

Contact either Dr. Janaka Siyambalapitiya (Coordinator) or Dr. Kumudu Jayawardhana of the research project for further details.

Contacts: Dr. Janaka Siyambalapitiya

Department of Management Sciences Faculty of Management

 Uva Wellassa University, Badulla

 janaka@uwu.ac.lk