The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid offers five positions for full- time tenure-track Assistant Professors (“Profesor Visitante”) in Political Science, beginning September 1st, 2014.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree at that date and have demonstrable research experience in any area of Political Science. They should be able to teach introductory and advanced political science courses during their contract period. In addition, the ability to teach quantitative methods related courses will be valued positively. The ability to teach in Spanish will be mandatory.

The position is offered on a four-plus-two year basis with the last two years conditional on passing an interim assessment after the third year of contract. At the beginning of the sixth year, the candidate can ask for evaluation for tenure as Associate Professor based on the Department’s promotion criteria.

The contract is based on the terms regulated by the regional Government of the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (CAM) for visiting professor contracts. The annual salary is stipulated as equivalent to that of an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular). In 2014, the basic annual salary for this category is 32,218 Euros gross.

Information about Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Department of Social Sciences can be found at

http://www.uc3m.es and http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/dpto_ciencias_sociales, respectively. Interested candidates should send the following documentation by e-mail:

* a cover letter

* a CV

* two letters of reference

* one copy/offprint of their most salient publication or research working paper (“job market paper”) (candidates may include a second piece of written work)

to the Secretary of the Department, Esperanza Castro (ecalonso@pa.uc3m.es).

The deadline for applications is February 21st, 2014. The Search Committee will request those short-listed to be available for the interviews and the presentation of a research paper at the Department personally or virtually as part of the selection process.

For inquiries on documentation, process, promotion criteria, etc., please refer to Dr. Markus Lampe, Academic Secretary of the Department  mlampe@clio.uc3m.es / http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/dpto_ciencias_sociales/home/faculty/Markus%20Lampe