Organisation/Company: Universidade de Coimbra
Department: SGRH - DRGC
Research Field: Other
Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2)
Positions: PhD Positions
Country: Portugal
Application Deadline: 23 Apr 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
Type of Contract: Permanent
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 35
Offer Starting Date: 12 Mar 2025
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? NextGenerationEU
Reference Number: IT074-25-14948
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer DescriptionPUBLIC NOTICE I publicly announce that, by the Rector of the University of Coimbra, Professor Amílcar Falcão, order of 19/01/2025, an international tender to fulfill one vacancy for the position of Assistant Researcher in the scientific area of Earth Sciences | subarea of Earth Observation is hereby open for 30 working days following the publication of the present notice in Diário da República [Official Journal of the Portuguese Republic]. The stated position will be held under a public service employment contract of unspecified duration at the Department of Earth Sciences - Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra.
I – Reference and Place of Work: I.1. Public tender reference: IT074-25-14948
I.2. Place of Work: University of Coimbra - Department of Earth Sciences - Faculty of Science and Technology
I.3. Salary: 3.501,28€, corresponds to the rank and index referred in the table in Annex 3 to Decree-Law nr. 408/89, of November 18, in its current version, without prejudice to legally imposed restrictions.
II - Functional content: The functional content is that corresponding to the stipulations in article 5 paragraph 1 and 4 of the ECIC, and article 7, paragraph 1 and 4 of the RRCPSPICUC.
III – Admission Requirements: III.1. General requirements: Applicants shall be at least 18 years of age or older, not be inhibited to holding a job in the public sector nor forbidden to perform the intended position; applicants shall also be in good health and possess the psychological profile required for the job and shall meet the compulsory vaccination requirements.
III.2. At the time of application, applicants shall fulfill the special admission requirements set forth in article 10, paragraph 1 of the ECIC and article 25, paragraph 1 of the RRCPSPICUC.
III.3. If the candidate's PhD is not in the scientific area of the procedure, nor in the area(s) previously defined as related (if any), the candidate is admitted if he/she presents proof that requested from the Scientific Council of the University of Coimbra a document certifying:
That the scientific area in which he/she has an academic qualification is also considered as a similar area to the one put up for tender procedure; orThat the scientific area in which the candidate provided services is considered to be a related area of the one put up for tender procedure.IV – Application: IV.1. Submission: candidates must access and register on the electronic platform apply.uc.pt, to submit the application, selecting the procedure to which they intend to apply.
The documents included in the application are exclusively in digital portable document format (pdf), with the exception of the documents referred in IV.2.4. and IV.2.6., which can be delivered in other digital formats.
The application submission is carried out by completing the sections available on the Apply UC electronic platform, under "My application".
If the Scientific project or any of the works/papers submitted contains classified information, revealing trade or industrial secrets or literary, artistic or scientific property secrets, candidates must select that option, available on the platform for each document; otherwise, those works/papers can be freely accessed by any of the other applicants when consulting the tender records.
Candidates can highlight in their CV periods of suspension of professional activity for socially protected reasons, namely, for reasons of parental leave, prolonged serious illness, and other legally protected situations of unavailability for work, always attaching supporting documents, and the jury must ensure that their evaluative judgment is not influenced by these pauses.
IV.2 Mandatory documents to be delivered:
Curriculum Vitae duly dated and signedCopy of qualification certificates.Separate copy of the 5 of the candidate's most relevant works/papers.Copy of all works/papers mentioned in the Curriculum Vitae.Scientific project for the next 5 years.Any other information considered relevant by the candidate.Document mentioned in point III.3., if applicable.IV.3. All application documents above indicated in IV.2 shall be submitted in Portuguese or English, exception made to those mentioned in IV.1.2.4 and IV.2.6, which may be submitted in a different language. If the original documents mentioned under IV.2.2 and IV.2.3 are written in a language other than Portuguese or English, candidates are required to include a version in one of those languages. Exception is made to Diplomas, when written in Latin, in which case no translation is required.
IV.4. Applicants, who are non-native speakers of either Portuguese or English, shall attest their proficiency at level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in, at least, one of those languages.
IV.5. Applications that do not comply with the instructions or that fail to meet the tender's formal requirements, pursuant to the applicable laws and to this Public Notice, shall not be accepted.
V – Selection methods and criteria: V.1. The selection methods to be used are approval in absolute merit and evaluation of the candidates' scientific and curricular background.
V.2. Evaluation of Absolute Merit: Approval on Absolute Merit will be given to candidates who hold a curriculum vitae that the jury considers adequate for the position to be filled, namely the merit of their scientific and technical work, as well as their professional experience and training, compatible with the category and scientific area and subarea for which the tender is open, always taking into account, for this evaluation, compliance with at least one of the following minimum criteria:
Be the author or co-author of at least 8 (eight) publications indexed in Web of Science or Scopus and have an h-index equal to or greater than 5 (five);Coordination of at least 1 (one) scientific project with a total amount of funding equal to or greater than 10,000 euros (ten thousand euros);Guidance or co-supervision of at least 2 (two) successfully completed master's and/or doctoral theses.V.3. For the assessment of the scientific and curricular background of the candidates, the following evaluation criteria should be considered: the quality of the candidates' scientific and technical work, professional experience, professional training, contribution to scientific guidance activities, participation in teaching activities and management bodies, community service and the quality of the scientific project, according to the following weighting.
VI– Selection process The Jury draws up a Final Report, signed by all its members, which contains the results of the tender.
IX. Notification of the candidates: The candidate(s) will be notified of the list of admitted and excluded candidates and its approval, of the Draft Final Ranking List, of the Final Report and of the act of approval of the Final Report, by registered letter, by email, by notice or by electronic notification automatically generated.
The University of Coimbra also promotes measures to facilitate work-life balance, recognizing the efforts of workers and promoting motivation.
This tender is financed under the terms of article 137 of Law nr. 82/2023, of 29th December, which approved the 2024 State Budget, within the scope of the Alliance program.
University of Coimbra,
The Chairman, Pedro Miguel Berardo Duarte Pina
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