The Scientific Council of the Institute of Hydrometeorology of the Georgian Technical University announces an open competition for the following scientific position:

• In the Department of Monitoring and Forecasting of Natural Environment Pollution: Senior Researcher - 1 staff unit

Applications will be accepted from October 6th, 2025, to October 8th, 2025, inclusive, from 10:00 to 05:00 p.m., at the address: Tbilisi, 150g Davit Agmashenebeli Avenue, Institute of Hydrometeorology, responsible person Naili Kapanadze, tel: 555 48 84 09, 032 295 10 47, 032 265 03 22.

The competition will be held on October 10th, 2025. The preliminary results of the competition will be published no later than October 10th, 2025, by the Competition Commission in a visible place and on the Institute’s website.

Applications/complaints regarding violations of the competition rules will be accepted by the Competition Commission until October 16, 2025.

Additional information to participate in the competition (contestant’s questionnaire, application, time and place of the interview) will be published on the Institute’s website.

II. Competition conditions

Main conditions of the competition:

a) A person who has a doctorate or equivalent academic degree can hold the position of a senior scientist;

A person is elected to the position of a senior scientist for a term of 5 years.

A person wishing to participate in the competition must personally (or through a representative) submit:

a) a duly completed and signed application and questionnaire (forms will be published on the institute’s website), as well as documentation confirming the information presented in them: diploma, certificate, deeds, etc. (original and copy);

b) a document confirming scientific/academic degree (original and copy);

c) a document confirming scientific-research experience (experience) certified by the seal of the relevant organization/institution;

d) List of scientific and educational methodical works, certified by the signature and seal of the competent person of the relevant institution/organization or its structural unit (if any);

e) Identity card (original and photocopy);

f) 2 photographs 3X4;

g) Certificate of conviction for committing a crime against sexual freedom and inviolability and certificate of deprivation of rights.

Note: A person who has already submitted the above-mentioned certificates to the Human Resources and Records Service of the University is exempt from submitting the certificates.

III. Competition Rules

• The competition will be held according to the Law of Georgia “On Higher Education”, the University Charter and the “Rules for Hiring Scientific Personnel of the Institute of Hydrometeorology”, which the contestants will familiarize themselves with in the competition commission, on the university and institute websites;

• The competition commission will consider: the correspondence of the contestant’s qualifications and competence to the competitive position, including scientific research, practical and other activities, achievements, qualifications, experience and merits relevant to the profile of the competitive position; as well as (by decision of the commission) the results of the interview conducted with the contestant(s);

• The results of the competition can be appealed in court, in accordance with the applicable legislation.