Organisation/Company: Universidade de Coimbra
Department: SGRH - DRGC
Research Field: Other
Researcher Profile: Other Profession Positions
PhD Positions
Country: Portugal
Application Deadline: 14 May 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
Type of Contract: Permanent
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 35
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Reference Number: IT136-24-14677
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
I publicly announce that, by my order issued at the date of signature of this notice, an international tender for one position of teaching career statute in the category of Assistant Professor in the field of Earth Sciences, Subarea of Tectonics or Geophysics, 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 Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra.
This international tender shall be conducted pursuant to the Estatuto da Carreira Docente Universitária [University Teaching Career Statute] in its latest version, hereinafter referred to as ECDU, and the Regulamento de Recrutamento e Contratação de Pessoal Docente da Universidade de Coimbra [Regulation on the Recruitment and Hiring of Teaching Staff of the University of Coimbra] hereinafter referred to as RRCPDUC, Regulation Nr. 330/2016, of 29 March, as well as further applicable legislation.
I – Reference and Place of Work:
I.1. Public tender reference: IT136-24-14677.
I.2. Place of work: University of Coimbra, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology.
II – Admission Requirements:
II.1. Applicants shall be at least 18 years old, 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.
II.2. To be, on the date of the deadline for submitting applications, holder of a doctorate degree, in the disciplinary area for which the tender is open, or in a related area that, complemented with the scientific path, show the ability to work centrally the tender is open.
III – Application
III.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 III.2.4. and III.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 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.
III.2. Mandatory documents:
III.2.1. Curriculum Vitae, duly dated and signed, in either Portuguese or English language. Personal data, worthy of protection under the General Data Protection Regulation, must appear on a separate page from the rest of the information in the Curriculum Vitae.
The Curriculum Vitae shall include a foreword with the description, if any, of all the candidate's employment relationships with higher education institutions up to the date of the application and the respective periods, identifying the category held, the nature of the employment relationship, the subject area(s) and the higher education institutions where the candidate has worked, explaining precisely the employment relationship held at the date of the application. It must also include a reasoned synopsis demonstrating that the candidate has the appropriate expertise to the subject area(s) and/or sub-area(s) for which the tender is open.
The candidate’s Curriculum Vitae shall be structured in order to separately respond to the different items listed below in IV.2.
III.2.3. Copy of qualification certificates.
The failure to present the recognition of the degree at the time of contracting, under the terms of Decree-Law nr. 66/2018 of August 16th, is ground for exclusion.
III.2.4. Document in which the candidate identifies the 5 scientific results or activities that they consider to represent their most significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the disciplinary area(s) and/or sub-area(s) the tender is open to.
III.2.5. Separate copy of the documents proving the contributions referred to in the previous point (one PDF file per document).
III.2.6. Copy of other works that the candidate considers relevant.
III.2.7. Any other elements that the candidate considers relevant.
III.3. All application documents above indicated in III.2. shall be submitted in either Portuguese or English, exception made to those mentioned in III.2.6. and III.2.7., which may be submitted in a different language. If the original documents mentioned under III.2.3. and III.2.5. 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.
III.4. 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.
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 – Selection methods and criteria
IV.1. Selection Methods: CV Assessment (50%) + Public Hearing (50%) + Approval on Absolute Merit (qualification criterion), with the assessment being given, in the Curricular Assessment and Public Hearing, on a scale of 0 to 100 points.
IV.2. Selection criteria for both CV Assessment and Public Hearing are scientific performance and pedagogical skills of the candidates, as well as other activities deemed relevant with regard to the mission of a global university, in accordance with the assessment of the parameters mentioned below.
IV.2.1. Scientific performance of the candidate in the disciplinary area(s) and/or sub-area(s) for which the tender is open, with an assessment of up to 80 points being awarded.
IV.2.2. Pedagogical skills of the candidate, with an assessment of up to 20 points.
V – Selection Process
V.1.Preliminary meeting
In the first meeting, which is always preparatory, the jury decides on the admission of applications and on whether or not to hold a Public Hearing, in the latter case justifying its decision in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 27 of the RRCPDUC.
V.2. Assessment meeting and final ranking of the candidates
Candidates will be notified of the draft final decision, which contains the list with the proposed ranking of successful candidates, as well as the list of unsuccessful candidates.
VII – Notification of candidates
All acts of the procedure are published on the Apply UC electronic platform during the course of the procedure. The candidates are notified by public notice of the following acts: the list of approved and excluded candidates; in the event of Public Hearing, the time, place and identification of the candidates admitted to this selection method, as well as, among these, the identification of the candidates to whom the President of the Jury has approved the provision of evidence via teleconference; the draft final decision of the tender; decisions regarding possible allegations made by candidates; the final result of the tender, after approval.
Chairman: Edmundo Heitor da Silva Monteiro, Full Professor and Director of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra
Committee members:
José Carlos Ribeiro Kullberg, Full Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Helena Maria Sant'Ovaia Mendes da Silva, Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto
Susana Inês da Silva Custódio, Associate Professor at the Department of Geographical Engineering, Geophysics and Energy at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon
Rui Miguel Marques Moura, Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Aveiro
Alcides José Sousa Castilho Pereira, Full Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra
Pedro Miguel Berardo Duarte Pina, Associate Professor with Aggregation of the Department of Earth Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra.
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