International selection procedure for hiring an Assistant Researcher under the program contract for support to the development of R&D activities, signed between FCT, I.P., and UNL (Notice no. IA/GC/01/2022)

Notice No. IA/GC/01/2022

Pursuant to articles 7 and 9 of Regulation no. 393/2018, of 28 June, which approved the Regulation on Careers, Recruitment and Employment Contracts for Researchers under an employment contract at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, published in the Diário da República, 2nd series, n.º 123, of 28 June 2018, by delegation of powers, the Director of the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Professor Helena Cristina de Matos Canhão, makes it known that the recruitment procedure is open, for a period of 15 working days, counting from the day immediately following the publication of this Notice in a means of communication with national expansion , to fill one (1) vacancy in the category of Assistant Researcher, under private law, for the Science Management Area, with relevant professional experience in Innovation and Technology Transfer at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School of Universidade Nova from Lisbon.

The opening of this recruitment procedure was authorized through Rectoral Dispatch n.º 80/2022 of May 5, under which the competence for appointing the Selection Committee was also delegated to the Director of the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School. As a result, the Selection Committee was appointed through the order of the Director of the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School, dated November 24, 2022.

This recruitment procedure is opened under the contract program to support the development of R&D activities, signed between FCT, IP, and UNL and in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 28 of the Regulation of the Scientific Employment (REC), published in the Diário da República, by Regulation no. 607-A/2017, of November 22.

This recruitment procedure is documental, has an international character and is governed by provisions constant From articles 10th to 12th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 20th paragraphs 1 and 2, 21st to 23rd, 24th, 26th and 27th of Scientific Research Career Statute, as well as the Careers, Recruitment and Employment Contracts for Researchers  under an employment contract at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, published through Regulation no. 393/2018, of 28 June (DR, 2nd series, no. 123, of 28 June ).

In compliance with paragraph h ) of article 9th of the Constitution, the Public Administration, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities between men and women in access to employment and professional progression, scrupulously providing for the avoidance of any and any form of discrimination.

I - Functional Content:

The functional content of the Assistant Researcher is described in subparagraphs a) to e) of paragraph 1 and paragraph 4 of article 5 of the Scientific Research Career Statute, and shall contribute to innovation and value creation at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School, namely:

·        Pro-active identification of projects and researchers at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School who may benefit from support on innovation and value creation in their scientific research activities;

·        Identification of technologies or other ways of knowledge valorisation with high innovative level and commercialization potential, such as applications on biotechnology, medicine, in vitro diagnostics, medical devices and digital health technologies;

·        Favouring interactions between researchers and national and international industry, including startups; negotiation of collaboration opportunities and support in the preparation of joint applications for funding programs;

·        Active identification of national and international funding opportunities tailored to the development and maturation of technologies with a high degree of innovation and market potential;

·        Creation and implementation of actions and mechanisms to stimulate innovation that allow the creation of value and impact, based on the knowledge generated at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School, in its three pillars of action: education, research and community;

·        Establishment of strategic relationships with national and international innovation agents (organisations, companies, collaborative laboratories, institutes and research units, health care providers, among others);

·        Support in the preparation and implementation of the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School strategy for Research and Innovation, which includes preparing institutional applications for funding programs;

·        Management and organization of events to promote innovation at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas|NOVA Medical School.

·        Representation of the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | Nova Medical School in national and international networks in areas of interest, as well as in events and meetings to promote the articulation of the different organic units of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

II - General admission requirements:
1.     Meet the requirements contained in Article 10 of Decree-Law No. 124/1999 of April 20, which approved the Scientific Research Career Statute;

2.    Candidates must also have a significant curriculum in Innovation and Technology Transfer.

III – Special requirements:
1.       Hold a doctor's degree in Health Sciences or Life Sciences for more than 5 (five) years;

2.      Candidates must have Post-Doctoral experience in Scientific Research and Innovation with high merit;

3.      Candidates must master the Portuguese language (spoken and written), without any communication limitations in this language.

4.   The approval on absolute merit of candidates is dependent on having a global curriculum that the Selection Committee fundamentally considers to have scientific merit, research capacity and developed activity compatible with the area for which the recruitment procedure was opened, appropriate to the respective category, as documented in the respective information presented to this procedure.

5.    For the purposes of the evaluation referred to in the previous number, approval based on the absolute merit of the candidates will depend on the fulfillment of the following requirements, cumulatively:

i) Applicants must have experience in coordinating scientific research projects and participation at Post-Doctoral level in research projects funded by the pharmaceutical industry, for more than 3 (three) years;

ii ) Applicants must have an h index value ( Scopus ) equal to or greater than 10 (ten);

iii ) Applicants must be co-inventors of an active international patent.

iv ) Applicants must have proven knowledge of the technology enhancement process;

v) Applicants must have more than 4 years of professional experience in innovation management;

vi) Candidates must have experience representing entities in international innovation networks.

IV – Relative merit evaluation criteria

The criteria, indicators and weightings for the evaluation and ranking of candidates are as follows:

1.          Quality of Scientific Work /Scientific Production (50%) - Quality and quantity of scientific production (extended articles in scientific journals of the First Quartile (Q1) and high impact with FI greater than 10 (ten)), expressed by the number and type of publications, due to the recognition given to them by the scientific community (translated into the quality of scientific journals and the references made to them by other authors). Index value of h ( Scopus ) equal to or greater than 10 (ten). Co-inventor of an active international patent;

2.         Experience and Professional Training/Scientific Activity (30%): Quality and quantity of research projects, with emphasis on project coordination and participation in projects financed by industry. Recognition and awarding of prizes in the field of research and innovation. Coordination of events to promote innovation in international networks.

3.         Participation in management bodies (15%): Management of innovation in an academic and start-up/ spin-off environment in the Health area;

4.         Services to the Community provision (5%): Pedagogical experience at the level of the Regency of Curricular Units in the area of Health Sciences.

In all evaluation components, the area of activities of the candidates will always be taken into account, with preference given to health.

V - Workplace:
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School |Universidade Nova de Lisboa located at Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon – Portugal.

VI – Submission of application:
1.       Candidates will submit applications, preferably in digital format, to the email: rh.recrutamento@nms.unl.pt 

2.    The documents instructing the application must be submitted by the 15th working day, counting from the day following the date of publication of this Notice in the national expansion newspaper.

VII – Instruction of the application:
1.       The application must be instructed by filling in the respective application form, which is available online at https://www.nms.unl.pt/pt-pt/nms/junte-se-a-nms/recrutamento/detalhe/recruitmentid/7144 with the candidate expressing their consent for communications and notifications, within the scope of this recruitment procedure, to take place by email, indicating the respective address;

2.    The application process must be accompanied by the documentation indicated below, which must be presented in Portuguese or English:

a)  Certificate proving the Doctor's Degree obtained more than 5 years ago;

b)  Curriculum vitae of the candidate, with an indication of the work carried out and published and the activities carried out by him, with regard to all the functions that are incumbent on Researchers, with regard to his contribution to the development and evolution of the research areas for which he is open the recruitment procedure;

c)   Declaration, under oath, that if the Selection Committee chooses to request the documentation indicated in the previous paragraphs or any other scientific documentation mentioned in the candidate's curriculum vitae, in paper form, it must be delivered within 10 workings days;

d)  Candidates must organize their Curriculum vitae in accordance with the system in point IV of this Notice.

3.    Applications accompanied by the aforementioned documents mentioned in point 2 must be delivered within a period of 15 working days, counting from the day immediately following the publication of this Notice in a means of communication with national expansion.

4.   The lack of any supporting documents that cannot be officially supplied will determine the rejection of the application.

VIII - Duration of the Contract
Employment contract for an indefinite period under private law.

IX - Compensation
Value corresponding to the 1st position, level 54A, corresponding to the base pay amount of €3,248.27 (three thousand, two hundred and forty-eight euros and twenty-seven cents), for the category of Assistant Researcher in the Scientific Research Career, in accordance with Annex I and II to Regulation No. 393/2018, of 28 June.

X – Selection Committee
President

Professor Helena Cristina Matos Canhão – Full Professor, Director of the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa 

Members

Doctor Patrícia Calado – Advisor, Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa; 

Professor Conceição Calhau, Full Professor, Vice-Dean for Community Services at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa;

Professor Nuno Neuparth, Full Professor, Vice-Dean and President of the Pedagogical Council of the the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa;

Doctor Paulo de Carvalho Pereira, Coordinating Researcher at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa;

Professor Pedro Oliveira, Invited Full Professor at the School of Business and Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa;

Doctor Ana Rita Londral , Executive Director of the Value4Health Collaborative Laboratory.

XI - Evaluation of Applications
1.     After the deadline for applications, the Selection Committee meets to evaluate and rank the candidates.

2.    If there are no grounds for rejecting applications in view of the admission requirements set out in point II of this Notice, the Selection Committee will deliberate on the approval or rejection on absolute merit, by justified nominal vote, taking into account the special requirements set out in point III.

3.    Candidates who have a favorable admission proposal from the majority of the members of the Selection Committee, expressed by the Rejected or Approved formulas, are admitted to the recruitment procedure , under the terms of paragraph 1 of article 27 of the Statute for the Career of Scientific investigation.

4.   If any candidate is not admitted, he will be notified, in order to give his opinion, in accordance with the Code of Administrative Procedure.

5.    Once the candidates approved on absolute merit have been definitively identified, they will be ranked in relative merit, based on the aspects and ranking criteria and respective weighting provided for in point IV of this Notice, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of article 27 of the Scientific Research Career Statute, and the result of the competition will be included in the final report, signed by all the members of the jury, with the ranking of the admitted candidates, assigning a classification to each aspect, in the scale of 0 and 100, and a final classification also on a scale of 0 to 100, resulting from the sum of the classifications attributed to the weighted aspects as stipulated in point IV of this Notice.

6.   The ordering of the admitted candidates is carried out by vote of the members of the Committee, respecting the ordering presented in the report referred to in the previous number, under the terms of article 27 of the Statute for Scientific Research Careers.

7.   All notifications to candidates will be made by email, pursuant to paragraph c) of paragraph 1 of article 112 and paragraph 5 of article 113, both of the CPA, including notification of the list of admitted candidates and excluded and final ranking list.

Faculdade de Ciências Médicas | NOVA Medical School of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa of the NOVA University of Lisbon,

November 28, 2022, The Director, Professor Helena Cristina de Matos Canhão.