Description
Characteristics, number and duration of contracts.
For the academic year 2025/2026, up to a total of 8 visiting professors may be hired.
The gross remuneration of the Visiting Professors will be proposed by the Academic Planning Committee and approved by the Governing Council, and will be equivalent to any of the labor contracts provided for in current legislation and will be, at most, equivalent to those established for permanent labor professors/doctoral contracted professors.
Independently of the remuneration corresponding to Visiting Professors, the University of Jaén may call for additional specific grants to cover installation expenses, according to budgetary availability.
The maximum dedication of the Visiting Professor will be eight hours of teaching per week, at the Undergraduate or Postgraduate level, preferably in English, within the Bilingualism Program of the University of Jaén.
The duration of the contract will be six months, and may be extended for an equal period, with the prior agreement of both parties, up to a maximum of two years. In any case, these possible extensions and their corresponding temporary periods will be subject to the processing and granting of the pertinent residence and work permits and the approval of the Governing Council.
Type of visiting faculty
Ordinary: teaching or research staff hired, on an exceptional and temporary basis, on a labor basis and who maintain their civil servant or labor relationship with their centers of origin.
Application procedure
Deadline and submission procedure
Applications will be endorsed and processed by the management of the Department, Research Institute or Center promoting the hiring proposal, and must be approved by the Department in which the teaching is to be carried out.
An application must be submitted (according to the model attached in Annex I) for each candidate, before March 6, 2025 at 00:00 (Spanish time).
Documentation
The application must contain the following documentation:
● Curriculum Vitae of the candidate, in Spanish or English, relating to the last 10 years. CVs that are not presented in the standard template will not be considered.
● Detailed report of the activities to be carried out, in the teaching or teaching and research field.
● Document accrediting the link with the institution of origin (certificate, contract, etc.).
● Authorization from the institution of origin.
- Copy of passport/identity document.
Both the application and the rest of the documentation must be submitted through the Electronic Registry of the University of Jaén.
Hiring Proposals
Proposals for the hiring of Visiting Professors will be made by the Department, Research Institute or Center of the University of Jaén. In accordance with the Regulations for the Hiring of Visiting Professors of the University of Jaén, the proposed candidates must hold the status of employees, in a civil service or labor regime, of other universities or research centers, preferably foreigners.
Selection process
The Departments, Research Institutes or Promoting Centers will send, included in the application itself, a justified evaluation of the teaching, research and internationalization suitability of each candidate they endorse.
Once the applications and evaluations of all the candidates submitted by the Departments, Research Institutes or Promoting Centers have been received, they will be evaluated by a Hiring Committee that will submit a proposal to the Academic Organization Committee.
The Hiring Committee will be made up of the persons responsible for the Vice-Rector's Offices with competence in matters of teaching staff and internationalization, one person representing each of the major areas of knowledge and one person designated by the Works Council.
For the evaluation of the applications, the following will be taken into account:
a) Teaching experience.
b) The research work carried out.
The Academic Organization Committee, after analyzing the proposal prepared by the Hiring Committee, will issue a mandatory and non-binding report. For the preparation of this report, particular consideration will be given to applications that promote the internationalization of the University and, in particular, those that serve as support for teaching in a foreign language, preferably English, within the Bilingualism Program or in international double degrees, bilingual degrees or degrees entirely taught in a foreign language.
The Governing Council of the University of Jaén, in view of the report issued by the Academic Planning Committee, will agree, if appropriate, on the hiring of Visiting Professors.