Postdoctoral Research Working Contract

**About UIC Barcelona**

UIC Barcelona is home to over 8,000 students and offers 16 bachelor’s degree programmes, 26 international double degrees and a wide range of master's and postgraduate degrees, in addition to continuing education courses in different fields of knowledge. Since 1997, we have been teaching people based on academic rigour, a fulfilling university life and enriching life experiences. The UIC Barcelona team is made up of professionals who are qualified not only in the field of teaching, but also in research, management, administration, communication, services and systems. Beyond the professionalism of each individual, at UIC Barcelona you will find a young and dynamic working atmosphere.

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**About your role**

We are looking for a senior postdoctoral researcher to be working within the UIC School of Architecture, research group on Sustainable Urban Living (Sul), on a Horizon Europe Project titled UP2030, dealing with urban sustainability and resilience. UP2030 is looking to enable sustainable transformations in 10 European cities and UIC Barcelona is aiming at study the cities planning needs for updating planning schemes and capacities in a first stage of the project, and build a capacity building and training program in a second stage.

The senior researcher is expected to lead project tasks, support the team at UIC in new project tenders preparation and be able to teach at the international MSc program in City resilience.

**Key tasks**

The senior researcher will conduct research and coordination tasks in collaboration with other WP leaders of UP2030, respect to:

- Provide a state of the art of the barriers and city needs for upgrading building codes, licences, governance aspects of the green transformation, reviewing the scientific literature and also interviewing tech. partners.
- Create a Benchmarking system able to gather urban sustainability and resilience indicators, developing indicators within a framework.
- Create a training for city practitioners on the above-mentioned topic, in collaboration with other WPs.
- Support the team in the co-writing of research proposals on urban sustainability and resilience
- Lead and co-write deliverables for the UP2030 project, and take part in multi-co-authored papers.
- Teach at the int. MSc in city resilience design and management about urban sustainability
- Contribute to the dissemination and outreach activities of the group, angagin cities practitioners.

**Benefits**:

- A temporary position (1+1 years)
- A full-time contract, supportive working conditions and a dynamic international scientific environment

**Eligibility criteria**

The following aspects of the applicant's CV will be taken into account:

- Professional knowledge and experience (50%)_
- Having worked with or for a city sustainability plan (30%)
- Having being leading WPs of European projects on urban sustainability (20%)
- Experience in supervising and leading team colleagues (20%)
- Having being teaching at university master level (15%)
- Having been writing deliverables and good quality reports for projects’ dissemination (15%)
- Competences (50%)_
- The ability to undertake leading role in both research and interaction with cities’ stakeholders with a high degree of independence (30%)
- To know and share the mission, vision and values of the University (20%)
- Ability to work across silos and in multidisciplinary environments (20%)
- Flexibility and adaptability and high efficiency for working against deadlines (10%)
- Management and organizational skills (10%).
- Proficiency in speaking and writing English (10%)

**Selection process**

The UIC Barcelona selection process, following that which is outlined in the European OTM-R, will be carried out in two phases: a first pre-selection phase and a second interview phase.

The PI of the project will be tasked with carrying out both phases, both the initial evaluation and the subsequent interview. He might partner with other experts inside and outside of UIC Barcelona for completing the two phases of the selection process.

The following criteria will be assessed in the initial phase:

- Research and work experience with cities
- Teaching and supervising potential

In the second phase of interviews, the following will be considered:

- Oral communication skills
- Interpersonal skills

**How to apply**

Required documentation:

- Letter of motivation (max 300 words)
- Full CV with contact details

**Skills/Qualifications**
- PhD degree in Planning or Architecture and at least 5 years of working or research career experience after the PhD is required.
- Previous work and active involvement in empirical research or consulting activities with cities on green plans, sustainability projects in contact with cities’ practitioners is required
- Experience in leading workshops, organizing multi-stakeholders events and be able to synthetize and writing high quality standard s