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IBEC is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit based Recruitment principles. For more information, we encourage you to take a look at our Recruitment and Selection policy, based on OTM-R principles.

IBEC, as a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), will consider,  especially for early-stage investigators, much more the scientific content of research outputs, than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it were published.

This is our commitment on equal opportunity:

“Our strength and excellence as an international transdisciplinary Research Institute are based on diversity. Being an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to diversity and inclusion, so that we support employees irrespective of their gender, nationality, religion, disabilities, age, sexual identity or cultural and socioeconomic background.” 

All applications are made electronically in our recruitment online platform.  After you have registered and logged in, you fill in the web form your personal and professional information. You can submit or update your application until midnight on the last application day. Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an email confirming that we have received it.

Selection and interview

When the application period has expired, we make a selection based on the requirements profile for the position. Selection committees are established for all recruitment process and aligned with our Equal Opportunities and Diversity Management Plan are sufficiently gender-balanced. The selection committees evaluate and consider past performance and future potential. Based on who best matches the requirements for education and experience specified in advertisement, the Selection panel will propose shortlisted candidates, who will  be invited  for an  interview.

If you are invited to an interview

During the interview, you usually meet an evaluation panel composed of the recruiting manager and one or two other employees. At IBEC, we work with competence-based recruitment. This means that apart from the questions based on the characteristics and abilities that are requested in the advertisement, you will be asked to describe previous situations and give examples based on them. You can prepare yourself by thinking through situations in your previous work, where you have used the qualities or abilities required in the ad. 

Referees contact details will be requested, but only for shortlisted or final candidates may be contacted.

A guide for interviewees is in place, to support and guide interviewees in preparing for their job interview that will be conducted using the competency-based interview approach.

At the end of the selection process all applicants receive an informative notice of their status in the selection process.

Shortlisted candidates for senior positions (Junior Group Leaders and Senior researchers) who have been interviewed by a selection panel will be informed about the strengths and weaknesses of their application.

All Institutional programmes (International PhD Programme, Senior Researcher call, Postdoctoral programme, Master programme, Junior Group Leader) have an appropriate complaints mechanism in place. The redress procedure will look at procedural shortcomings and into possible errors, not against evaluation panel decisions or experts ratings and comments.

For the rest of the recruitment process, candidates can contact us through a specific email: jobs@ibecbarcelona, concerning complaints and doubts about the recruitment process.

If you get a job at IBEC

When you are about to start working with us, you will receive a letter of commitment with the details of job offer. The HR unit will support you all aspects of your incorporation at our Institute.

Spontaneous applications, internships

How can you start collaborating with us?

For spontaneously applications, you can start choosing a maximum of 3 research groups and write an email to jobs@ibecbarcelona.eu and send us your CV, a cover letter (preferably in English) and to make your application more attractive for our researchers, you can also attach your full record with your marks (or the record you have at the moment, as you are in the middle of the term and won’t have yet the whole year).

Or, if you are looking for an internship agreement (for your final degree project, final master project or just curricular or extracurricular practices) with your university and IBEC, you can also write to the same email address and do the same procedure: send us your spontaneous candidacy, telling us 3 research groups of your interest and attach your record with your marks