Social Sciences Senior Researcher (Ref: DCS)

Education and Training:

The candidate ought to hold a PhD or an equivalent (official) degree in the area of Social Sciences. 

Experience:

The candidate ought to have at least 5 years’ experience in research and development projects.

Project Management:

The candidate ought to have:

• Interest in Tourism.
• Abilities to technically manage a Research and development project.
• Abilities to administratively manage a Research Project.
• Abilities to interoperate and have good relationship with clients and partners.
• Previous experience in general Project Management.
• Experience in international projects, e.g. EU funded projects or similar.

Project Seeking – Research and Scientific development, initiative, problem solving and decision making:

The candidate needs to be very experienced in:

• Writing scientifically and technically excellent project proposals.
• Contacting potential partners to make up a project consortium.
• Using initiative and creativity to identify new project and scientific knowledge areas and methods, potentially interesting for the Centre to extend the research portfolio.
• Translate knowledge of advances in the subject area into research activity.
• Using  new research techniques and methods.
• Contributing to collaborative decision making with colleagues in areas of research.

Work in Team:

The candidate needs to be experienced and skilled to:

• Lead a research working team, as well as to be its scientific leader.
• Work as a team member in order to achieve common objectives.
• Attend and contribute to relevant meetings.
• Show consideration and respect to others.

Scientific expertise - experience:

The candidate needs to have:

• Basic and Strategic research oriented profile and experience.
• Executive skills in order to meet objectives, dates, commitments, etc.
• Solid quantitative methods.
• Skills for data analysis by the use of statistical software.
• Wide experience and skilled to write high quality scientific papers.
• Engagement to continuous professional development and training.
• Experience in student assessment and supervision of final year projects and / or PhD thesis dissertations.
• Strategic vision of technology in general and in particular, of technology applied to tourism.
• Research objectives and proposals for own or joint research.
• Updated knowledge and understanding in his/her field of specification.

Communication:

The candidate must have excellent skills in:

• Dealing with routine communication using a range of media for public presentations.
• Communicating clearly complex information in writing, electronically and orally.

Liaison and networking:

The candidate ought to be able to:

• Liaise with colleagues, partners and clients.
• Build internal contacts and participate in internal networks for the exchange of information and to form relationships for future collaboration.
• Join external networks to share information and identify potential sources of funds, collaborative research and scientifically relevant agents.

Languages:

The candidate must have:

• Excellent English speaking, reading and writing capacities.
• Basic Spanish capacities (for those whose mother tongue is English).
• Another EU language can be an asset.

Other requirements:

The candidate ought to be flexible to:

• Be a frequent traveller.
• Move to another country.
• Understand equal opportunity issues as they may have an impact on areas of research content.

Job Functions:

• Project management.
• Publications.
• Research and Development of new projects.
• Proposal writting .

Workplace:

CICtourGUNE  (Donostia - San Sebastián. Spain)

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