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About the Faculty of Business, Communication Studies and Aviation

The Faculty of Business, Communication Studies & Aviation comprises the Bissett School of Business, the School of Communication Studies and the Aviation Program. The Bissett School of Business offers a four-year Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with majors in accounting, human resources, and general management (with concentrations in innovation and entrepreneurship, social innovation). The Aviation Program is housed in the Department of International Business, Supply Chain and Aviation and offers a two-year Aviation Diploma and the newly launched four-year Bachelor of Aviation Management. Students in the School of Communications Studies take a four-year Bachelor of Communication Studies (BComms) and can pursue majors in Broadcast Media Studies, Information Design, Journalism, and Public Relations. In addition to the two degrees and their majors, students are offered a variety of minors, concentrations, and certificates to complement their major.

The Bissett School of Business is an accredited member of EFMD, a global, non-profit, membership-driven organization dedicated to management development.

About the Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Social Innovation

The Department currently offers a degree program in Business Administration with a major, minor, and certificate in Marketing, and minors and concentrations in both Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation.

The Bachelor of Business Administration – Marketing program develops marketing professionals who can effectively blend insight, strategy, and creativity to bring extraordinary products, services, and campaigns to the marketplace. Students are exposed to marketing in many experiential learning settings and work with real-life clients including non-profit organizations, marketing agencies, start-ups, large corporations, and in-house marketing teams across a variety of industries.

The Department has undergone an intensive review for the BBA – Marketing program with the aim to revamp the program towards enhancing the creative and strategic strengths of our learning community, developing robust and rich connections between students and our professional community through work-integrated learning, and improving the focus on delivering applied skills to augment students’ job market readiness and to align the program with the university’s commitment to providing enriched learning opportunities beyond the traditional curriculum.

About the Role

The Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Social Innovation at Mount Royal University invites applications for a 3-year limited-term position which will commence on August 15, 2025, and ends on August 14, 2028, subject to final budgetary approval, at the Rank of Assistant Professor.

A terminal degree, PhD or DBA, in Marketing or closely related fields is required. The committee considers those who will complete their degree within a year. The successful candidate should have professional experience in marketing in addition to teaching experience at the post-secondary level.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a history of teaching excellence, a commitment to MRU values, and:

• Demonstrated experience and commitment to undergraduate teaching with specific emphasis on marketing.
• Demonstrated capacity for curriculum development with the ability to initiate and develop new course material and other curricular content at the undergraduate level.
• Demonstrated expertise and currency in marketing fundamentals. Additional expertise in areas such as the impact of technology and AI, emerging trends in marketing, marketing strategy, sustainable marketing, and/or marketing research methods would be an asset.
• Capacity to initiate and actively collaborate with community partners in work-integrated and experiential learning approaches to teaching at the undergraduate level.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with colleagues and industry partners to develop local network connections in support of student learning.

New faculty are hired into one of two work patterns. The teaching/scholarship/service pattern (TSS) focuses on teaching with the requirement that the faculty member be involved in a research program as well as service to the Mount Royal community. The teaching/service pattern (TS) focuses on teaching and service only. Faculty are expected to teach six 3-credit courses per academic year on the TSS pattern or eight 3-credit courses per academic year on the TS pattern.

For further information, contact: Dr. Amir Bahman Radnejad Interim Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Social Innovation at bradnejad@mtroyal.ca