UiT The Arctic University of Norway

UiT is a multi-campus research university in Norway and the northernmost university of the world. Our central location in the High North, our broad and diverse research and study portfolio, and our interdisciplinary qualities make us uniquely suited to meet the challenges of the future. At UiT you can explore global issues from a close-up perspective.

Credibility, academic freedom, closeness, creativity and commitment shall be hallmarks of the relationship between our employees, between our employees and our students and between UiT and our partners.

Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics

The position

The Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at The Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics has a position vacant for a Researcher. The position is attached to the Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative and the research group Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology.

The appointment is permanent. The position is funded for a period of four years.

The Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB) includes 5 research groups distributed across several buildings. Research and teaching at AMB has a broad span, from molecular mechanisms at cellular/subcellular levels via studies of adaptations at the organismal level, to ecological interactions in aquatic and terrestrial environments. The institute is an exciting and cutting-edge academic and research unit in biology that addresses professional challenges in basic research, industrial and administrative-oriented research with a strong focus on North. The Institute has extensive national and international research collaboration including regional institutions like Framsenteret, IMR and NIBIO. The staff counts 56 permanent scientists, 25 technicians, 12 administrative positions and 50 temporary employees (researchers, postdocs, PhD research fellows, technicians).

The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø. You must be able to start in the position within six months after receiving the offer.

The research area

The position as ASTI Research Fellow is available in the framework of the Arctic Seasonal Timekeeping Initiative (ASTI), a new UiT-funded Aurora centre which has the aim of establishing an international centre of excellence on seasonal timekeeping in north Norway. As such a general requirement is that the appointee will contribute to the ongoing development of ASTI, department of arctic and marine biology and the university as a whole.

The appointee will be expected to develop their own main line of research to complement and augment parallel research programmes within ASTI, and to align with one or more of the overarching thematic headings: Core seasonal timer mechanisms and outputs; Comparative seasonal chronobiology; One seasonal health. Summaries of ongoing ASTI programmes can be found on the centre web-site. It is expected that the appointee’s research programme will have the potential to reach high international standards of excellence, and to attract substantial independent external financial support.

The appointee will become an integral member of the Arctic Chronobiology and Physiology research group, which is based on the UiT Brevika campus and leads the ASTI programme. This is a young and growing research grouping with a strong collective ethos of interdisciplinarity and collaboration, which will offer excellent opportunities to co-develop collaborative projects under the ASTI umbrella.

Membership of this group will provide excellent further training and career development opportunities, in both research and pedagogical aspects, enabling the appointee to compete for future long-term career positions.

Contact

For further information regarding this position, please contact:

• Professor David G. Hazlerigg, david.hazlerigg@uit.no, phone +47 77 64 48 71

Qualification requirements

Required qualifications:

• The candidate must have successfully completed a Norwegian doctoral (PhD) degree or its international equivalent in a topic area linked to seasonal timekeeping
• The candidate must have a strong early career track record of presentation and communication of research findings through peer reviewed publications. The quality of publication output will be assessed in accordance with the principles of The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
• The candidate must be an excellent scientific communicator, capable of high standards of oral and written communication in English, with a documented record of presentation at scientific meetings and outreach activities.
• The candidate must be able to demonstrate a capacity to lead and develop their own independent research programme.
• The candidate must be able to demonstrate a clear potential to secure external funding in their own specialist research area.
• The candidate must be able to demonstrate a good capacity to work effectively in an in interdisciplinary team environment.

Additional desirable qualifications:

• Experience of master’s / PhD student supervision
• Pedagogic experience of undergraduate teaching, including lectures / symposia and undergraduate project supervision

UiT wishes to increase the proportion of females in academic positions. In cases where two or more applicants are found to be approximately equally qualified, female applicants will be given priority.

Application

The application must include:

• Cover letter including a short description of interests and reasons for applying for the position
• CV containing a complete overview of experience, professional work and references
• Diplomas, diploma supplements and transcripts (all degrees, in original language and translated)
• Written references
• Two references with contact details
• A list of your academic production
• Description of your academic production, stating which works you consider most important
• Academic works, up to ten. The doctoral thesis is regarded as one work.

The documentation has to be in English or a Scandinavian language. The application and submitted documents must be sent electronically via www.jobbnorge.no.

We offer

• Career opportunities: New faculty members are prioritized when assigning internal PhD-positions at the Faculty
• Good welfare arrangements for employees
• Good arrangements for pension, insurance and loans in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund

General information

The appointment is made in accordance with State regulations and guidelines at UiT. At our website, you will find more information for applicants.

The working hours shall be utilised for research, research-related activities, and research administration.

The successful applicant must be willing to engage himself/herself in the ongoing development of his/her discipline and the university as a whole.

The remuneration for researcher is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1109. A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted.

According to the Norwegian Freedom and Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.

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Inclusion and diversity

UiT The Arctic University of Norway is working actively to promote equality, gender balance and diversity among employees and students, and to create an inclusive and safe working environment. We believe that inclusion and diversity are a strength and we want employees with different competencies, professional experience, life experience and perspectives.

If you have a disability, a gap in your CV or immigrant background, we encourage you to tick the box for this in your application. If there are qualified applicants, we invite at least one in each group for an interview. If you get the job, we will adapt the working conditions if you need it. Apart from selecting the right candidates, we will only use the information for anonymous statistics.

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