IIMA seeks to appoint outstanding scholars in all fields of management as faculty members. IIMA is an equal prospect employer. Women, non-Indian nationals, and those belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes are encouraged to apply.
IIMA has about 100 full-time faculty members and an equal number of visiting faculty members engaged in teaching, research and consulting. From its inception the institute has believed in excellence in whatever it does.
IIMA ranks high globally in both academia and management practice thanks to the quality of our faculty, our alumni and our programmes. IIMA provides an excellent ecosystem to its faculty members helping them to grow and take up leadership positions in the academia.
The Institute is generous in funding the participation of its faculty members in national and international conferences every year. The faculty members also receive a faculty development allowance every year. New faculty members are provided a start-up grant.
The Institute has a system in place to offer a variety of research grants internally to its faculty members, including large grants of INR 2 million per annum. The Institute rewards faculty members who publish in top journals.
The Vikram Sarabhai Library at the Institute is considered to be one of the best in Asia in management. The Institute's 40-hectare campus provides a verdant ambience for the campus housing that accommodates faculty members.
The Institute has created a number of Chair professorships through endowments received from industry. Eminent individuals are appointed to these positions through a transparent process, in recognition of their sustained, outstanding and creative contributions to research and/or teaching. The Institute expects its Chair professors to undertake, in consultation with the donor organizations, major research programmes that would embody the Institute's academic contribution to professional management in the Indian context. Chai