External participants

The browser recommended for registration for the Competition for Faculty Positions is Google Chrome.

Prior to filling in an electronic application, please prepare information and document scans necessary for registration. All scans shall be received as multipage files in pdf or tiff format. If you have several documents, you can attach them to the application using the archive format.

When filling in the e-application, you must indicate your preferred vacancy: see the list of vacancies before completing the e-application.

Please fill in the competition application, which is in line with your status: the application “I am an External Applicant” is for persons who are not currently working at HSE University under an employment agreement or an independent contractor’s agreement for the provision of teaching services.

HSE University teachers and staff members shall fill in competition applications via their MyHSE Services Account. Please check if you are authorized to access your account at: lk.hse.ru. You must use your corporate login and password to sign in. 

If you need to interrupt or take a break from filling in the competition application, you may copy the website address from the browser and later return to filling in the application, by following that link.

Before filling in a competition application, please prepare your information and files:

Number of years in a teaching position;

Author identifiers (if available): SPIN РИНЦ, ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus AuthorID, etc.;

Links to your profiles on social networks (USER ID): FACEBOOK, VKONTAKTE, YOUTUBE, TWITTER (we ask for these links to know more about your professional interests);

If you have worked at HSE University as a teaching assistant, you must specify in your application the years of employment and teachers with whom you worked with while in this position at the University;

Information on individual achievements (portfolio): advanced training over the last three years, confirmed in documentation (list of programmes); research projects implemented over the last three years, and grants received during this period; dissertation defence over the last three years or pre-defence stage; academic supervision of defended dissertations/theses over the last three full calendar years; presentations of reports at teaching/methodological, research and professional conferences over the last three years; membership of the editorial boards of academic journals; development of new courses, e.g., e-courses, teaching techniques, control/measurement materials, supervision of student projects, expeditions with learners, and summer schools over the last three years; directorship of academic departments, degree programmes, dissertation committees; governmental and other official awards; involvement in the organization of extra-curricular activities; overseeing student clubs over the last three years; victories in external and internal professional competitions over the last three years, with documents confirming one’s performance; other professional achievements, with documentary evidence;

Information about participation in applied projects commissioned by an outside organization over the last three years, as well as involvement in grant projects received from outside organizations over the last three years;

Documents confirming the absence of restrictions on employment in the educational sphere: medical certificate received no earlier than one year ago, certificate of good conduct and/ or ongoing criminal proceedings or termination thereof on exonerative grounds, received no more than three months prior;

Scan of a degree certificate – submitted in pdf or tiff format;

Scan of employment record (all pages) or a scan of the certificate “Information on labour activities of a registered party (form СЗВ-ТД) – submitted in pdf or tiff format. If you have several documents, you may save them in an archive format;

If applicable – scan of certificate for candidate/doctor of science, PhD, assistant professorship certificate/certificate of professor (if applicable) – submitted in pdf or tiff formats;

CV presented in doc, docx, pdf or tiff formats;

Files with your publications in the years of 2018-2021, which you consider to be your most successful (1, 2 or 3 publications in Russian or English); for applications to positions of teachers of foreign languages, it is allowed to include publications in the language of specialization); you may attach works that are currently in print, indicating their expected publisher and timeframe for publication – submitted in doc, docx, pdf or tiff files; for monographs, it is possible to attach archives; such works will be forwarded for expert review;

A list of academic publications in the years of 2018-2021, including publications that are currently in print, for copying when filling in the application – submitted in doc and docx formats. We kindly ask that you provide a full bibliography entry; For publications currently in print, please indicate their status as (currently in print);

A list of publications in 2018-2021 in journals indexed in WoS or Scopus for copying when filling in the application – submitted in doc and docx files.

List of teaching/methodological publications in 2018-2021, including publications that are currently in print, for copying when filling in the application – submitted in doc or docx formats. For publications in print, please indicate their status as (currently in print);

If applicable – scans of certificates for candidate/doctor of science, PhD, assistant professorship/professorship title (if available) – submitted in pdf or tiff formats;

If applicable – scan of a certificate, confirming proficiency in English, or other documents, confirming your level of English (PhD diploma, confirmation that thesis/dissertation defence was in English) – submitted in pdf or tiff format;

If necessary – scans of certificates from publishers about planned publications – submitted in pdf or tiff formats;

List of courses taught, including those in English (when filling in the application, copy them to the respective field);

Scans of documents, which confirm your professional achievements over the last three years (external confirmation) – submitted in pdf or tiff format;

Text of a motivation letter (no more than 1,200 symbols with spaces, for copying when filling in the application), providing answers to questions: indicate the reasons why you have chosen this vacancy, list your methodological and/or research publications in 2018-2021 which cover the topic related to the relevant vacancy (only names of publications, without bibliography entries); list of courses you have taught which cover the topic related to the relevant vacancy, and indicate when (indicate month and year) you may start working in the selected job position should you successfully pass the Competition for Faculty Positions;

Any additional documents, which you would like to attach to the application, in doc, docx, pdf, or tiff formats.

Documents regulating competitive selections for faculty positions at HSE University

Regulations on Procedures for Filling In Faculty Positions, as approved by Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Directive N. 749, dated July 23, 2015

Regulations for Organizing and Holding a Competitive Selection of Applicants for Faculty Positions at HSE University

Procedures for Preliminary Consideration of Selection Documents Submitted by Applicants for Faculty Positions at HSE University  

Regulations for Holding a Competition Selection of Applicants for Faculty Positions at the HSE  School of Foreign Languages 

Guidelines for Expert Assessment of Teaching under a Course in a Foreign Language

HR Committee Conclusion Template

In line with the Regulations on Procedures for Filling in Faculty Positions, as approved by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Directive No. 749, dated July 23, 2015, together with competition documents, an application for participation in the Competition for Faculty Positions should be submitted. This application shall be generated automatically from information inputted to the competition electronic application upon the completion of the registration process, and should be submitted to the respective HSE University office no later than April 19, 2021 (inclusive).

If an application to a competitive selection is not submitted by the aforementioned deadline, as per the legislation of the Russian Federation, we will be forced to decline your application.

The application shall be generated automatically from information inputted in the electronic application upon the completion of the registration process. The application should be then printed out, signed by the candidate and submitted (sent) in its original copy to the following addresses by April 19, 2021.

For Moscow-based vacancies:

Applications may be submitted in person at: HSE University Front Office, 20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow (working hours: Monday – Friday, 9.30am until 7pm) – your application will be processed on the day after the day when it was received by the Front Office; 11 Pokrovsky Bulvar, Moscow, entrance from Dusarosvsky Pereulok (across from the Representative Office of North Ossetia), to the right not going through the turnstiles - Office M120 (Front Office; working hours: Monday – Friday, 10am until 6.30pm) – your application will be processed on the day after the day when it was received by the Front Office;

Alternatively, they may be sent to: 11 Pokrovsky Bulvar, Moscow, 109208, HSE University (re: Competition for Faculty Positions). To confirm whether your application has been received by the University if sent by Russian Post or a courier, please provide the postal identifier or tracking number, respectively.

For Nizhny Novgorod-based vacancies:

Attn.: Larisa A. Lushina, Office 309, HSE University in Nizhny Novgorod, 25/12 Ul. Bolshaya Pechyorskaya, Nizhny Novgorod, 603155;

For Perm-based vacancies:

Attn.: Tatyana A. Andrianova, Office 103, 38 Studenchakaya Ulitsa, Perm, 614070;

For St. Petersburg-based vacancies:

Attn.: Elena Vandysheva, Office 202, 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov Ulitsa, Saint Petersburg, 190121

As per the Regulations on Procedures for Filling in Faculty Positions, as per Directive No. 749 by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, dated July 23, 2015, a candidate’s application should have documents attached, which confirm that he/she has no restrictions with respect to employment at an educational institution, as specified in relevant legislation or other regulatory acts.

Restrictions on employment in the sphere of education are set out in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation (Art. 331 and 351.1).

Candidates shall not be permitted to take part in the competition if they have not submitted the required documentation.

                           Such documents include:

Documents confirming the absence of illnesses/ailments, which would preclude employment in the sphere of education (the list of ailments is determined by Directive No. 302н by Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development, dated April 12, 2011). 

External candidates taking part in the Competition for Faculty Positions must present a certificate confirming the absence of any medical restrictions for working in education.

Such a certificate may include:

a document issued by a medical institution (diagnosis, certificate, etc.) based on the results of medical check-up, and/or laboratory and function tests;

a medical report from an occupational physician, confirming the absence of any restrictions on employment in the sphere of education;

a scan of a medical record with stamps confirming previous medical check-ups;

a certificate confirming no inclusion in the registry for neuropsychiatric or narcological care. 

The time limit for medical reports/certificates cannot exceed one year from the date of its submission to the Competition for Faculty Positions.

External candidates for participation in the Competition for Faculty Positions, who are currently in the City of Moscow, may enquire about receiving a referral to a medical check-up with the HSE University Front Office at the following addresses:

20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow (working hours: Mon – Fri, 9.30am – 7pm);

11 Pokrovsky Bulvar, Moscow, entry from Duraskovsky Pereulok (opposite from the Representative Office of Northern Ossetia), not going through the turnstiles entrance to the right to Office M120 (working hours: Mon-Fri, 10am – 6.30pm).

Information about medical checks can be found at: https://www.hse.ru/medical/medosmotr

A certificate of good conduct (clean criminal record) and/ or that confirming ongoing criminal proceedings or termination thereof on exonerative grounds

The procedures for the issue of the aforementioned certificates are governed by the Administrative Regulations of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the provision of state services in the issue of certificates of good conduct and/or certificates confirming criminal proceedings or the termination thereof, approved by Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Directive No. 1121, dated November 7, 2011. HSE University, in turn, requests such a certificate and determines the term of its validity in line with p. 88 of these Regulations as being no more than three months as at the date of the submission of documents for the Competition.

Instructions for obtaining a certificate of good conduct and/ or that confirming ongoing criminal proceedings or termination thereof on exonerative grounds:

via the internet portal “gosuslugi.ru” (if registered with this resource);

at any multifunctional state services centre in the city of Moscow (Moi Dokumenty “MFTs”).

HSE University utilizes three types of employment agreements, underpinned by a flexible system of professional (career) trajectories with designated mechanisms for selecting, incentivizing and appraisal of its employees. As the University’s objectives become more complex and diverse, in addition to academic staff with scientific achievements, it needs professionals with non-academic skills and competencies. In addition, we will also require highly qualified teachers, who might not necessarily have academic achievements. That’s why, along with academic trajectory, two types of professional trajectories are being introduced: professional and teaching/methodological.

Career growth within the framework of each of these trajectories may be achieved in three areas: enhancing one’s teaching position; in each trajectory, it is possible to receive honorary awards and titles; it is possible to advance along the administrative line, by taking on managerial responsibilities.

When filling in a competition application, you will need to select the most suitable professional (career) trajectories, where you see your professional development at the University. There will be a choice of three professional trajectories, from among which you will be offered to select your first and second priority:

Academic trajectory, which is defined by regular research activities, a high rate research productivity, participation in academic conferences, working with doctoral students, involvement in the teaching that strongly relies on research outcomes;

Teaching/methodological trajectory, which is defined by the quality characteristics of teaching at a high level, active engagement in teaching/methodological developments and/or project activities with students, methodological and technical support for courses (including e-courses) if one does not have systematic academic achievements (necessary number of publications) and experience in practical/applied work outside of the academic sphere;

Professional trajectory, which is defined by the presence of practical experience in non-academic organizations, organization of project work, related to applied research and expert analysis, as well as the development of new products, along with the ongoing or prior employment outside of the academic sphere, including tat in consultation and expert/analytical work, applied research and R&D activities.

Further, field-specific HR committees shall confirm or dismiss one’s eligibility for a given trajectory, while also giving due consideration to the stated preference of the candidates.

The competition application includes a section about a candidate’s individual achievements (portfolio), where you may place the following information:

• advanced training in the last three years, confirmed with documentation (list of programmes);
• research projects carried out in the last three years;
• grants received in the last three years;
• defense of a dissertation over the last three years or pre-defence stage;
• academic supervision of defended dissertations over the last three full calendar years;
• presentations with reports at academic, methodological and professional conferences over the past three years;
• involvement in the editorial board of academic journals;
• development of new academic courses, e.g., e-courses, new methods of teaching, development of testing materials, etc.;
• winner of a competition held by the Educational Innovation Fund over the last three years in any category;
• supervision of student projects and expeditions with learners, as well as summer schools, over the last three years;
• supervision of subdivisions, degree programmes and dissertation committees;
• successful completion of a two-year HSE University staff development programme;
• participation in the Teach4HSE programme;
• nominations and receipt of ‘Golden HSE Award’ in any category;
• governmental and other official awards;
• any HSE University’s awards;
• leadership of extra-curricular activities;
• supervision of student clubs over the last three years; winner status over the last three years in internal and external professional competitions,
• with accompanying documentation;
• other professional achievements with supporting documentation.

Research productivity is assessed based on the evaluation of available academic and methodological publications using author identifiers, as well as based on an expert review of one’s best works over the last three years.

In your competition application, we request that you provide full bibliography entries for all of the publications you have had over the last three years, with one publication per line.

For the winter competition, the last three years shall include the year when documents were submitted for the Competition for Faculty Positions and the previous two calendar years; for the summer competition – the year when documents were submitted for the Competition for Faculty Positions and the previous three calendar years.

Example of a list of publications:

Article Radaev V. V., Salnikova D., Roshchina Y. The Decline in Alcohol Consumption in Russia from 2006 to 2017: Do Birth Cohorts Matter? // Alcohol and Alcoholism. 2020. Vol. 55. No. 3. P. 323-335

Book Радаев В. В. Миллениалы: Как меняется российское общество. 2-е изд. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2020

If you have articles, which have been accepted for print, they should be indicated as such: (currently in print). To confirm the status of such publications, we request that you attach a document confirming the decision to publish the work in question (confirmation from the publisher), drafted on a letterhead with the signature of the editor-in-chief or another authorized person, in the relevant field of the competition application.

For assessing your publications, we also request that you provide author identifiers (if available):

Your publications will be then subject to a peer review process. To this end, please attach up to three (1, 2 or 3) of your publications, which you consider the best from the past three years. These works will be submitted for expert review.  Publications in Russian and English are accepted, with the exception of publications by candidates vying for vacancies to teach foreign languages, whereby publications in the language of one’s specialization may be submitted.

Originals and multipage scans of your documents can be accepted in doc, docx, pdf and tiff formats. It is possible to submit unpublished works that have been sent to press. A full bibliography entry should be included in the attached files with the published works. For works sent for print, information on the proposed journal/publisher and issue (volume) must be provided. With respect to major publications (i.e., monographs and books), a scan of the page with the publisher’s imprint is acceptable.