IT074-25-14952 - 1 Principal Researcher - Social Sciences - Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra Coimbra

IT074-25-14952 - 1 Principal Researcher - Social Sciences - Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra
Coimbra
Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal

Organisation/Company: Universidade de Coimbra

Department: SGRH - DRGC

Research Field: Other

Researcher Profile: Established Researcher (R3)

Positions: Ph
D Positions

Country: Portugal

Application Deadline: 28 May 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Status: Full-time

Hours Per Week: 35

Offer Starting Date: 14 Apr 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? European Union / Next Generation EU

Reference Number: ALIANÇA

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

Offer Description

I publicly announce that, by the Rector of the University of Coimbra, Prof. Doctor Amílcar Falcão, order of 07/02/2025, an international tender to fulfill 1 (one) vacancy for the position of Principal Researcher in the scientific area of Social Sciences is hereby open for 30 (thirty) 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 Law of the University of Coimbra.

This international tender shall be conducted pursuant to the Estatuto da Carreira de Investigação Científica [Career of Scientific Research Statute] in its latest version, hereinafter referred to as ECIC, and Regulamento de Recrutamento, Contratação e Prestação de Serviço de Pessoal de Investigação Científica da Universidade de Coimbra [Regulation on the Recruitment, Hiring and Service Providing of Scientific Staff of the University of Coimbra], Regulation Nr. 810/2021, of 30 August, hereinafter referred to as RRCPSPICUC, as well as further applicable legislation.

I – Reference and Place of Work:

I. 1. Public tender reference: IT074-25-14952

I. 2. Place of Work: Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra

I. 3. Salary: 3. 950, 17 €, corresponding 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, paragraphs 2 and 4 of the ECIC, and article 7, paragraphs 2, 4, 5 and 6 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 11, paragraph 1 of the ECIC and article 25, paragraph 2 of the RRCPSPICUC:

1. Be an assistant researcher, from the same or another institution, in the scientific area of the tender, and have a minimum of three years of effective service in that category or have passed a public qualification or aggregation test.
2. Be an assistant researcher at the same or another institution, in a different area, but with a relevant scientific curriculum in the area for which the competition is open, and have a minimum of three years’ effective service in that category or have passed a public qualification or aggregation exam.
3. Be a principal researcher at another institution in the scientific area of the tender.
4. Be a principal researcher at another institution in a different area, but have a relevant scientific curriculum in the area for which the tender is open.
5. Hold a doctoral degree in the scientific area of the tender, and have a minimum of three years' professional experience in this area after obtaining their doctorate, or have passed a public qualification or aggregation exam.
6. Hold a doctoral degree in a different area, but have a relevant scientific curriculum in the scientific area of the tender, and have a minimum of three years' professional experience in these areas after obtaining their doctorate degree or having passed a public qualification or aggregation exam.

III. 3. If the candidate's Ph
D is not in the scientific area of the procedure, the candidate is admitted if he/she presents proof that requested from the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law 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; or
• That 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, reveal 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 file.

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:

1. Curriculum Vitae duly dated and signed.
2. Copy of qualification certificates. Opponents selected for the position(s) to be filled who hold a foreign doctoral degree must present the recognition or registration (as applicable) of their degree at the time of contract signing, in accordance with Decree-Law No. 66/2018, dated August 16th, under penalty of exclusion.
3. Separate copy of the 3 (three) of the candidate's most relevant works/papers that have contributed to the development of the scientific area for which this tender is open, and justified, in a separate document, the reasons for this choice.
4. Copy of all works/papers mentioned in the Curriculum Vitae.
5. Scientific project for the next 5 years, with a limit of 5 pages, related to the research lines in the scientific area for which this tender is open to which the candidate proposes to dedicate himself in the UC, obeying the following requirements: presentation of the main problems to which the candidate intend to dedicate the future research, contextualizing them in the current state of the art in these field; systematic and succinct description of the research strategies that the candidate proposes to adopt in order to develop his research and solve or contribute to the resolution of the problems he has mentioned; explanation of the reasons and motivations for his choices.
6. Any other information considered relevant by the candidate.
7. Document mentioned in point III. 3. , if applicable.
8. Report of the activities developed by the candidates.
9. Copy of the certificate of approval in public examinations of qualification or academic title – Agregação - when applicable under the terms of point III. 2.

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
- 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. In the same way, if the required documents or papers are submitted outside the established timeframe, the application shall not be accepted.

IV. 6. The present tender ceases with the occupation of the position, or, when the position cannot be totally occupied, due to the inexistence or insufficiency of candidates to continue this tender.

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

1. 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 for which the tender is open, always taking into account, for this evaluation, the following reference criteria:

1. To have participated in the design, development and execution of at least 4 (four) internationally funded research projects;
2. To have participated in the development of training activities in the field of research and development in the last 3 (three) years;
3. To have proven experience in the national or international scientific and technological system in research management, namely holding leadership positions in research organizations for a minimum of 2 (two) years.
4. To have (certified) postgraduate training in research management.

V. 2. 2. The Jury shall decide on admission or exclusion on absolute merit by
- call vote, based on compliance or noncompliance with the requirements set out in paragraph V. 2. 1, and by an absolute majority of votes in favour from among the members present at the meeting.

V. 3. Assessment of the scientific and curricular background 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.

V. 3. 1. Quality of the scientific and technical work, with a weighting of 30%, considering the following evaluation parameters:

1. Scientific production, taking into account the books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals and international conference proceedings of which the candidate has authored or
   - authored, considering their nature and impact, the scientific/technological level and innovation, diversity and multidisciplinarity, international collaboration, the importance of contributions to the advancement of the current state of knowledge and the importance of the works that were selected by the candidate as the most representative, namely in the regarding its contribution to the development and evolution of the scientific field for which the competition is open;
2. Co-ordination and participation in scientific projects and in science and technology management: the candidate's potential and previous experience in participating and coordinating activities and projects subject to competition on a competitive basis, as well as in research teams, in the area for which the tender is open, namely taking into account the territorial scope and its dimension, the technological level, the interdisciplinary dimension, and the importance of contributions, innovation and diversity;
3. Creation and reinforcement of laboratory facilities, taking into account the participation and coordination of initiatives by the candidate that have resulted in the creation or reinforcement of laboratory infrastructures of an experimental and/or computational nature to support research;
4. Promotion of scientific activity and in science and technology management: taking into account the ability to coordinate and lead research teams demonstrated by the candidate;
5. Impact and national and international recognition of scientific production, taking into account awards from scientific societies, editorial activities in scientific journals, participation in editorial bodies of scientific journals, coordination and participation in program committees of scientific events, holding invited lectures at scientific meetings or in other institutions, participation as member of scientific societies for competitive admission and other similar distinctions.

V. 3. 2. Professional experience and training, with a weighting of 15%, considering the following evaluation parameters:

1. Level and adequacy of academic degrees and diplomas or professional qualifications, in the area for which the tender is open;
2. Professional experience of the candidate to carry out duties as a Principal Researcher in the area for which the tender is open;
3. Experience in a leadership position in national or international research organizations, taking into account their role, duration and responsibility.

V. 3. 3. Involvement in scientific advisory activities and participation in teaching activities, with a weighting of 10%, considering the following evaluation parameters:

1. Activities of
   - up and advising of research work developed by scholarship holders, research interns and research assistants, participating in their training, as well as of supervision of students' theses, namely undergraduate, postgraduate, master's and doctoral students;
2. Collaboration in professional training sessions, namely participation and coordination of training sessions aimed at researchers and the development of research careers, according to their characteristics and the results achieved;
3. Pedagogical content: publications, computer applications and experimental prototypes of a pedagogical nature that the candidate has produced or participated in, and their impact on the national and international community should be considered;
4. Participation in teaching activities: publications, reports or other materials of a pedagogical nature that the candidate has produced or participated in the production of should be taken into account, and their impact on the national and international community should be considered.

V. 3. 4. Participation in management bodies, with a weighting of 10%, considering the following evaluation parameters:

1. Holding positions or duties in bodies of Higher Education Institutions, and in Research Units, taking into consideration their nature, duration, impact and responsibility;
2. Holding temporary positions and tasks, namely editorial activities in international journals, evaluation in scientific programmes, juries of academic tests, juries of competitions and others that have been assigned by the competent management bodies;
3. Performance in other positions, namely those legally considered equivalent to the effective exercise of teaching activities and those carried out in national and international scientific organizations.

V. 3. 5. Community service, with a weighting of 15%, considering the following assessment parameters