The Centre for Water Policy and Governance, SOHS has launched launching a Post-Graduate Diploma in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (PGD-WASH) from academic year 2024-25 in Mumbai Campus of TISS. TISS invites interested scholars located within and outside India to apply for the Two positions of Assistant Professor on a short-term basis. The posts would be on a contract basis and for a duration of One Year 3 months, strictly. The Salary will be as per 7th CPC in the Academic Pay level 10.
Date Posted: 21st April 2025
Hiring Organization: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Organization Profile: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (www.tiss.edu), established in the year 1936 is a Deemed to be University, fully funded by the University Grants Commission, Govt of India. TISS is a Grade I University with NAAC and is ranked 60 under NIRF University Rank Category for 2022. With four campuses at Mumbai (main campus), Hyderabad, Guwahati, and Tuljapur (rural campus), TISS currently offers 05 Undergraduate programmes, 54 Masters’ Degree programmes, and 18 Ph.D. programmes in a range of socially relevant inter-disciplinary areas of applied Social Sciences including 34 Bachelor of Vocational degree programmes.
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Employment Type: Contract basis
Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree with 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point-scale wherever the grading system is followed) in Political Science/ International Relation/ Political Demography & Population Studies/Law-Governance Management, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign university.
- Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC or the CSIR, or a similar test accredited by the UGC, like SET or A master’s degree in civil/mechanical/Environmental Engineering (ME/MTech) with valid GATE scores. OR who are or have been awarded a Ph. D. Degree in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil./Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2009 or 2016 and their amendments from time to time as the case may be exempted from NET/SET :
- Provided the candidates registered for the Ph.D. programme prior to July 11, 2009, shall be governed by the provisions of the then-existing Ordinances / Bye-laws / Regulations of the Institution awarding the degree and such Ph.D. candidates shall be exempted from the requirement of NET/ SET for recruitment and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in Universities/Colleges/Institutions subject to the fulfilment of the following conditions:
- The Ph.D. degree of the candidate has been awarded in regular mode only;
- The Ph.D. thesis has been evaluated by at least two examiners;
- An open Ph.D. viva voce of the candidate has been conducted;
- The candidate has published two research papers from his/her Ph.D. work, out of which at least one is in a refereed journal; and
- The candidate has presented at least two papers, based on his/her Ph.D. work in conferences/seminars, sponsored/ funded/supported by the UGC/ICSSR/CSIR or any similar agency.
Note:
1. The fulfilment of these conditions is to be certified by the Registrar or the Dean (Academic Affairs) of the University concerned.
2. NET/SET shall also not be required for such Masters Programmes in disciplines for which NET/SET is not conducted by the UGC, CSIR or Similar test by the UGC like SLET/ NET
- The Ph.D degree has been obtained from foreign university/ institute with ranking among top 500 in the world university ranking by any one of the following:
i. Quacquarelli Symonds(QS)
ii. the Times Higher Education (THE) or
iii. the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) of the Shanghai Jiao Tong
University (Shanghai).
Job Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Pay Scale: The Salary will be as per 7th CPC in the Academic Pay level 10.
Apply Mode: Online
Last Date: The last date for submission of online applications will be 25th April, 2025
Organization Website: https://tiss.edu/
How to Apply:
- The candidates are requested to apply online through the link (Apply Now) provided along with this advertisement on the Institute’s website at www.tiss.edu.
- The candidates are requested to take a print of the acknowledgement of the online application and keep it for future reference. The last date for submission of online applications will be 25th April, 2025.
- The shortlisted candidates will be sent a call letter and a link for the interview. The online interview in Zoom Platform will be conducted in the Third – Fourth week of May 2025.
- To Apply : https://tiss.ac.in/
Organization Address:
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar,
Mumbai 400088
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