Assistant Professor

Organisation/Company: Universidade de Coimbra

Department: SGRH - DRGC

Research Field: Other

Researcher Profile: Other Profession Positions

Country: Portugal

Application Deadline: 3 Apr 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: IT136-24-14885

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

PUBLIC NOTICE

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 Management, subfield Marketing and Strategy, 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 Economics 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: IT136-24-14885.

I.2. Place of work: University of Coimbra, Faculty of Economics.

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 area or in any of the disciplinary areas 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.

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 and sub-area for which the tender is open.

III.2.2. Career Development plan up to 10 pages, concerning the research lines in the scientific field and subfield for which this tender is open and which the candidate intends to develop at the University of Coimbra, in the short and medium term. This plan shall meet the following requirements: presentation of the main issues on which the candidate intends to focus his/her future research, based on the current state-of-the-art context; short and summarised description of the research strategies the candidate intends to adopt to develop research and to solve or contribute to the solving of the above-mentioned issues; presentation of the potential contribution to develop the University of Coimbra's Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), aligned with the profile defined in the application to FCT-Tenure Program with Reference 2023.15623.TENURE.046; explanation of reasons and motivations for the presented choices.

III.2.3. Copy of qualification certificates. Opponents of the tender who are selected for the position(s) to be filled and hold a doctoral degree obtained abroad must present recognition or registration (as applicable) of their degree at the time of signing the contract, under the terms of Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16, under penalty of exclusion.

IV – Selection methods and criteria

IV.1. Selection Methods: CV Assessment (50%) + Public Hearing (50%) + Approval on Absolute Merit (qualification criterion).

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.

IV.3. Each member of the jury assigns, in each of the selection methods, Curricular Assessment and Public Hearing, to each candidate admitted and who meets the minimum requirements of absolute merit, a score in accordance with what is defined in IV.2.

The final classification that each member of the jury assigns to each candidate is the weighted average of the overall classification given in each of the selection methods (Curriculum Assessment and Public Hearing).

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.

V.2. Assessment meeting and final ranking of the candidates.

VI – Ranking and voting methods:

VII — Notification of candidates

Chairman: José Manuel de Oliveira Mendes, Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Committee members:

Claúdia Maria Neves Simões, Full Professor, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho

Helena Maria Baptista Alves, Full Professor, University of Beira Interior

Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro, Full Professor, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon

Pedro Manuel dos Santos Quelhas Taumaturgo de Brito, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto

This Public Notice will be published in Portuguese in Diário da República , 2nd Series, and on the website Bolsa de Emprego Público (Governmental Public Employment Portal), as well as in both Portuguese and English at Apply UC (apply.uc.pt) and on the EURAXESS Portugal Portal, at https://www.euraxess.pt/.

Pursuant to subparagraph h) of Article 9 of the Portuguese Constitution, the University of Coimbra, as employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional development and takes action to prevent each and every kind of discrimination, and encouraging underrepresented minorities in each area to apply.