Ningbo University is an institution jointly developed by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Zhejiang provincial government and the Ningbo municipal government. It was selected for the national ‘Double First-Class’ educational initiative, and was one of the first five key universities selected by Zhejiang Province.Ningbo University is ranked among the top 100 Chinese universities for academic excellence.
The university consists of 24 faculties, including economics, laws, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, clinic medicine, management and arts. It has 7 class-A subjects and 6 class-B subjects rated first-class provincially. Its Engineering Science, Clinical Medicine, Chemistry and Material Science are ranked among the world’s top 1% according to ESI subject ranking. Now Ningbo University offers 6 class-one doctoral programs and 3 postdoctoral research stations, as well as 30 class-one master’s programs, 23 professional master’s degree programs and 75 undergraduate programs. The university is qualified to accept master’s students with exam exemption, and to recruit international students funded by Chinese government scholarships, as well as students from Hong Kong, Macao and Tai Wan. Currently, the university has around 16,469 full-time undergraduate students, 6923 masters, 2368 international students (including 1820 students for academic degree programs) and 12431 continuing higher education students.
The University employs over 2826 staff members including 1843 teachers and researchers, 401 have senior professional titles and 783 have associate senior professional titles, and over 1158 staff hold a PhD degree. Moreover, the university has 1 Chinese Academy of Science academician, 1 Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, 2 members of the Academy of Royal Society of Canada and 1 member of The Third World Academy of Sciences. Furthermore, among Ningbo University’s faculty, there are 2 members of the State Council Discipline Appraisal Group,1 selected for the four first batch’ Talents, 3 winners of the National Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars, 15 experts receiving the special government allowance, 3 winners of the Outstanding Youth Science Funds, 14 supported by the Ministry of Education’s Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, 2 teachers supported by the Excellent Young Teachers Program of MOE, 10 for National and provincial prominent contribution experts; 26 for national and 18 provincial superior talents, 1 ‘provincial special grade professor’, 13 Special-Term Professors of Qianjiang Scholars.
With the motto of ‘seeking truth from facts and applying knowledge to the service of the nation’, Ningbo University is working hard to become a comprehensive research university with distinctive features and sincerely invites talented scholars from around the world to join us achieving remarkable things.
Currently we are looking for the following five types of talented scholars at home and abroad to
join Ningbo University.
Job No. 1 Academic Leading Talent
Job No. 2 Academic Leader
Job No. 3 Key Academic Member
Job No. 4 Outstanding PhDs (D1)
Job No. 5 Outstanding PhDs (D2)
Details are presented hereinafter.
If you are interested or have any question, please contact us via phone or email.
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Job No. 1：
Job title：Academic Leading Talent
Job requirements：
(a)For Academic Leading Talent post (A1): Professor or chair professor from a renowned university overseas;
(b) For Academic Leading Talent post (A2): Tenure-track professoror associate professor from an acknowledged university or research institution overseas, and under 40 years of age;
(c) For Academic Director Leading Talent post (A3): Tenure-track associate professoror assistant professor from an acknowledged university or research institution overseas, and below the age of 40.
Disciplines：Any
Qualifications：PhD
Skills needed：The applicants need to have held a teaching post at a recognised university overseas or have held a research post at a research institution.
Number of recruitment：30
Proposed salary and benefits：
(a) Salary and benefits are negotiable for candidates of A1
(b) Candidates of A2will be offered an attractive package including no less than 3 million CNY’s accommodation allowance and 500,000 CNY’s annual subsidies or 800,000 CNY’s annual salary. Candidates in Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines will be offered no less than 1 million CNY’s research start-up fund. Candidates in Natural Sciences will be offered a research start-up fund of no less than 4 million CNY.
(c) Candidates of A3 will be offered no less than 2 million CNY’s accommodation allowance and 300,000CNY’sannual subsidies or 600,000 CNY’s annual salary. Candidates of Humanities and Social Science will be offered no less than 600,000 CNY’s research start-up fund. Candidates of Natural Sciences will be offered a research start-up fund of no less than 2 million CNY’s.
Job No.2：
Job title：Academic Leader
Job requirements：
Applicants who meet either of the following conditions will be eligible:
(a) Applicants must have held the position of assistant professor (or equivalent) in a recognised overseas university;
(b) Applicants must hold a doctorate degree or higher from a recognised overseas university, and in the past 5 years, have published at least4 papers in journals of SSCI and/or A&HCI; or 6 papers in journals of SCI Q1 or on equivalent TOP journals of the related field.
Disciplines：Any
Qualifications：PhD
Skills needed：The applicants need to have held a teaching post at a recognised university overseas or have held a research post at a research institution.
Number of recruitment：30
Proposed salary and benefits：The successful candidates will be offered an annual salary of 300,000 CNY and 1.5 million CNY’s accommodation allowance. , Candidates of Humanities and Social Science will be offered 400,000 CNY’s research start-up fund; while those of Natural Sciences will be offered 1 million CNY’s research start-up fund.
Job No.3：
Job title：Key Academic Member
Job requirements：
(a) Applicants must hold a doctoral degree from a recognised overseas university or institution and should have at least 2 years’ consecutive research experience overseas; Applicants with a doctoral degree issued by a Chinese university should have at least 3 years’ consecutive teaching or research experience overseas in the related fields.
(b) Applicants should have, in the past 5 years, published at least 4 papers in core academic journals (at least 2 indexed by SSCI or A&HCI); or 4 papers in journals indexed by SCI Q2 or TOP journals.
Disciplines：Any
Qualifications：PhD
Number of recruitment：30
Proposed salary and benefits：The successful candidates will be offered an accommodation of600,000 CNY. Candidates who complete their tasks by the end of the contract will be provided a bonus of400,000CNY. Those in Humanities and Social Sciences will be offered 100,000 CNY’s research start-up fund, while those in Natural Sciences will be offered 500,000 CNY’s research start-up fund. The successful candidates will have 250,000 CNY per annum.
Job No.4：
Job title：Outstanding PhDs (D1)
Job requirements：
(a)Applicants must be under 35 years old.
(b) Applicants must hold a doctoral degree.
(c) Applicants in Humanity & Social Sciences need to have, in the past 3 years, authored or co-authored at least 2 published papers in second class core academic journals (at least 1 of these should be published in a first class core academic journal, or 1 paper in a leading journal). It is acceptable if the applicant is the second author, with his/her supervisor being the first author when the paper is related to his/her PhD dissertation topic). For applicants in Natural Sciences, they should have, within the past 3 years, published at least 2 papers in SCI journals (one of them can be an EI journal for those in the Engineering field) or 1 paper in a journal indexed by SCI Q1.
(d) Applicants with a doctoral degree in Humanity & Social Sciences from a renowned overseas university who cannot meet term (c) may be considered if they have authored 2 papers published in relevant peer-reviewed journals or 1 academic monograph published by a reputable international press.,
Disciplines：Any
Qualifications：PhD
Number of recruitment：100
Proposed salary and benefits：Successful candidates will be offered 60,000 CNY’s accommodation allowance per annum during the first 3 years of the contract. Candidates who complete their tasks with excellence by the end of the contract term will be awarded a bonus of 570,000 CNY, while those who finish the tasks will be awarded a bonus of 420,000 CNY. A research start-up fund of 50,000CNY will be provided for candidates in Humanities and Social Sciences and a start-up fund of 100,000 CNY for candidates in Natural Sciences.
Job No.5：
Job title：Outstanding PhDs (D2)
Job requirements：
(a)Applicants must be under 35 years old.
(b) Applicants must hold a doctoral degree in special subjects such as arts, sports, Architecture，accounting, project management, minority language, maritime transport, basic education, etc.
Disciplines：Any
Qualifications：PhD
Number of recruitment：10
Proposed salary and benefits：The successful candidates will be offered 60,000 CNY’s accommodation allowance per annum for the first 3 years of the contract term and a research start-up fund of 50,000 CNY. Candidates who finish the tasks with excellence will be awarded a bonus of 570,000 CNY at the end of the contract, while those who finish the tasks will be awarded a bonus of 420,000 CNY.
