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Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Real Estate Finance and Sustainability
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s [MIT] Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE), both located in MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), seek applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in: Real Estate Finance and Sustainability.
With a faculty appointment based in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning (DUSP), the MIT Center for Real Estate is seeking to appoint a full-time, tenure-track faculty member, at the rank of assistant professor or associate professor (pre-tenure), to teach and conduct research in real estate finance, economics, sustainability and related fields. The ideal candidate will have conducted research in one or more areas of the real estate field. The candidate should have a scholarly sensibility to engage in team teaching and team research with scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds including economics and finance, urban planning and design, engineering, technology and innovation, business and management, and law. The person hired will be expected to teach master degree students, as well as undergraduate and PhD students.
Three substantive areas of research and teaching expertise of particular interest to CRE include:
- Interdisciplinary approaches to incorporate environmental sustainability and social justice into the traditional real estate finance and economics framework.
- Real estate finance and investment with a particular interest in commercial property and/or the real estate development process;
- Urban and real estate economics with a particular strength at the intersection of real estate space and capital markets.
Assistant Director, Center for Real Estate (CRE) MIT and Sustainable Urbanization Lab (SUL)
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Will report directly to SUL’s principal investigator Professor Siqi Zheng, collaborate with its senior researchers, and work under the general guidance of CRE’s associate director. Will ensure the day-to-day management of the lab and research team; the personnel resources of the lab’s research group; and its administrative, operational, and financial operations. Responsibilities will include research project management and research proposal development, serving as the main point-of-contact for the lab’s sponsors/partners and MIT’s main central offices (e.g., Research Administrative Services, HR, VP of Finance, VP of Research, etc.) and all lab vendors; team member recruitment and administrative management; academic seminar planning, coordination, and execution; communications, presentation and social media content creation and management; data management, including acquisition of datasets, management, and security; financial management, including procurement, processing reimbursements and honoraria, and expense reconciliation; arranging local and international travel; coordinating and executing all logistics for meetings with visitors to the lab, including researching and assembling briefing information, preparing meeting summaries and related materials, and facilitating teleconferencing as needed; designing and implementing standard operating procedures for the research group; and assessing and implementing systems that will ensure research team has a roadmap to guide them on the entire project life-cycle from initial award to publishing, etc.