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Description
BioData.pt (Associação BIP4DAB) is opening an expression of interest period for one fixed-term work contract for Administrative Management.
The candidate selected for this position will be mainly responsible for administrative support to the Association and Board of Directors, and managing projects.
Requisites:
- Bachelor's degree in management, economics, or related areas;
- Fluency in Portuguese and English, read, spoken, and written (minimum C1 written and spoken).
- Experience in project management, particularly involving multidisciplinary and international teams;
- Familiarity with Office tools: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
- Familiarity with project management software and financial tools
- Excellent communication skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to help each other, proactivity, flexibility;
- Project management experience: National and European Projects.
Applications are made by sending an email to careers@biodata.pt, with a subject named BioData.pt Bioinformatician Application 03/BIODATA/2025, with the documents stated below compiled in a single PDF file:
- Detailed Curriculum Vitae
- Motivation letter
- Certificate of qualifications indicating the degree held by the applicant and final classification
- a detailed list of grades
- Name and contacts (phone and email) of two personal references
For candidates with degrees granted by foreign higher education institutions, it is mandatory to have a degree or diploma recognition.
The monthly pay, meal allowance, vacation, and Christmas payments shall be paid by bank transfer.
Eligibility criteria
The candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in management, economics, or related areas, with proven knowledge on project and administrative management. Required language skills: proficiency in English (minimum C1 written and spoken).
Availability to travel in the country and abroad.
Selection process
The selection will be based on the following criteria:
- 70% academic profile and proven experience record
- 30% motivation letter
An interview will be conducted with shortlisted candidates. The punctuation proposed by each member of the jury is obtained by assigning a weighting factor of 70% to the first phase of the application, and a weighting factor of 30% to the interview. The jury may also decide not to assign the position if none of the candidates meets the required conditions.
Candidates with an average score below 70%, are not recommended for hiring.
The Jury is composed of:
President: Inês Chaves
Member: Ana Teresa Correia de Freitas
Member: Luciana Peixoto
Substitute Member: Sergio Matos
Each member of the jury assigns a classification to each of the candidates on a scale of 0 to 100 points, ranking the candidates according to their classification consisting of the sum of the partial classifications assigned in each evaluation criterion, and considering the weighting factor given to each parameter. In this process, abstentions are not allowed.
Candidates shall be ordered by applying the successive voting method. The jury has the faculty not to select a candidate if the above-mentioned requirements are not fulfilled. Minutes of the jury meeting are drawn up, which contain a summary of what has taken place in the meeting. The final deliberation of the jury is approved by the Board of BIP4DAB, and it is their responsibility to establish the respective contract.
About the employer
BioData.pt is the Portuguese Infrastructure of Biological Data, with the mission of providing the research community in Portugal with resources and expertise in data management, bioinformatics, and computing. To accomplish its mission, BioData.pt participates in several national and international projects, organizes training and dissemination events, and nourishes domain-specific communities and technical platforms.
BioData.pt is a consortium of fifteen Portuguese research institutions, part of the national biological information network, BioData.pt. Like ELIXIR, the Portuguese Node is organised as a decentralised network of specialised centres, under a common hardware and software infrastructure, and shared training and industry/entrepreneurship programmes.