‘Miquel Crusafont’ Predoctoral Researcher

Minimum requirements:

• Academic degree: MSc in Paleobiology, Biodiversity, or similar (when applying)
• Languages: Good level of spoken and written English (no diploma required)
• Experience:
  • Be registered in a Doctoral Program of the UAB or fulfilling all the prerequisites for doing so before signing the contract
  • PhD project draft
  • Lacking a predoctoral grant or contract
• Other:
  • Agreement with an ICP R3 researcher to become main supervisor of the PhD
  • Approval of the research group leader to the PhD project draft

Desirable competences:

• Expertise: Vertebrate paleontology or paleoanthropology
• Experience:
  • Participation in paleontological fieldwork
  • Previous work with the ICP collections or the fossil record from Catalonia
  • Contributions to meetings and scientific publications

• Full time job (37.5 h/week; 1605 h/year)
• Teleworking opportunities (up to 30% working time)

Selection Criteria. The weight of the various selection criteria (in %) is specified in the table below. During the shortlisting phase, each eligible applicant will be assigned a 0-10 score to each criterion. During the evaluation phase, shortlisted candidates will be assigned a 0-10 score to each merit included in the selection criteria (as specified on the ICP recruitment protocol), each with a corresponding percentage determined by the Selection Committee before the call is closed. Final scores will be modulated by the results of an interview and career duration.

OTM-R. The ICP endorses the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers that define the EU Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R), and since 2018 holds the HR Excellence Award of the EU. Therefore, the ICP is fully committed to open, transparent, and merit-based recruitment (OTM-R), in order to ensure that the best person for a job is recruitment as well as to guarantee equal opportunities among candidates. The internal regulations that apply to this job description are available on the document entitled “ICP Protocol for the Evaluation, Internal Promotion and Recruitment of Researchers and Technicians”, which is publicly available from the ICP website (http://www.icp.cat/attachments/transparencia/ICP_Recruitment_Protocol.pdf).

Non-discrimination. The Non-Discrimination Committee of the ICP will oversee the recruitment process to prevent any kind of discrimination by reason of gender, sexual preference, language, ethnicity, geographic origin, functional diversity, or any other reason unrelated to scientific-technical merits. Applicants are responsible to provide the necessary personal information related to career breaks (due to parental and medical leaves, unemployment, part-time contracts, etc.) if any of the provisos included in the recruitment protocol apply to the computation of career duration. The ICP aims to guarantee equal opportunities to all candidates and intends to promote a balanced sex ratio. Therefore, the application by female candidates is strongly encouraged.

Confidentiality. The ICP complies with applicable laws of personal data protection and guarantees the confidentiality of all the personal data provided by the candidate, which will solely be used for the purposes of the current recruitment process.