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About this position

Internal reference
03/BIODATA/2025
Education requirements not replaceable by experience
Base salary
€1,389.93
Employment type
Full-time
Job location type
Hybrid
Valid through
Fri 11 Apr 2025 23:59 WEST

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in management, economics, or related areas, with proven knowledge on project and administrative management.

Experience needed

Experience in project management, particularly involving multidisciplinary and international teams;

Skills required

Fluency in Portuguese and English, read, spoken, and written (minimum C1 written and spoken).
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.

Responsibilities

Coordinate the Portuguese Node of ELIXIR and all its duties, including managing its budget;
Manage ELIXIR projects and support the PIs;
Provide technical and financial support to the Association projects, namely tracking deadlines, monitoring task development, and elaborating regular and timely plans and reports;
Administrative support to the Association and Board of Directors.
Prepare the minutes of the Board of Directors and General Meeting.
Support in the management and execution of budgets, render accounts, practice and promote all necessary acts for this purpose;
Carrying out procedures for the acquisition or leasing of goods and services, as well as developing negotiation processes that lead to the rationalization and reduction of charges;
Organize and keep up-to-date the register and inventory of assets;
Support in event preparation and realization;
Report directly to the Executive Director and to the ELIXIR Head of Node

Job Benefits

Meal allowance per workday of 10.20€ (ten euros and twenty cents in card)
Transportation subsidy
Professional development and training opportunities
Hybrid workplace

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:

  1. Detailed Curriculum Vitae
  2. Motivation letter
  3. Certificate of qualifications indicating the degree held by the applicant and final classification
  4. a detailed list of grades
  5. 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.