Senior Project Associate (Senior PAT)

Advt. No.: MNPB/PBS/2026/2

Project No. HCP0024 (III), WP-7

Post Name: Senior Project Associate (Senior PAT) One post

Qualifications:

Masters in Natural / Pharmaceutical Sciences with specialization in Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Phytochemistry / Organic Chemistry /Natural Products / Pharmacognosy / Microbiology /Biotechnology

and

3 year experience in Research and Development in Industrial and Academic Institutions or Science and Technology Organizations and Scientific activities and services

OR

Doctoral Degree in Science / Pharma with specialization in Phytochemistry / Natural Products / Pharmacognosy / Organic Chemistry / Medicinal Chemistry / Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Microbiology / Biotechnology

Monthly Emoluments:

Rs 42000 + HRA as admissible

Age:

The upper age limit for Senior Project Associate (Senior PAT) is 40 years as on the last date of receipt of applications. Age relaxation as per rules.

Job requirements:

The selected candidate will work on the project entitled “Bioprospecting of Seaweeds and Employing Forward Genetic Approaches to Target Identification of Bio-actives Derived from Seaweeds”. Candidates having experience with extraction, chromatographic separation, dereplication, and structure elucidation of small molecules from natural sources using UV, IR, NMR, MS techniques will be preferred.

Application procedure: Application form can be downloaded from https://www.csmcri.res.in/jobs/temp. Interested candidates may submit their applications through email to [email protected]. The last date for receipt of the application is 31st October 2026. The application package should be a single PDF file consisting application form, recent CV, certificates supporting educational qualifications and experience, and publications if any. Applications received in the prescribed format and by e-mail will be scrutinized based on the candidate’s academic background with a certain criteria and shortlisted candidates who are eligible as per the criteria will be asked to attend the online interview. The details of the interview will be sent to shortlisted candidates by e-mail only.

This post is purely temporary and co-terminus with the project. The engagement of a project staff in different projects either in the CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar or different Lab./Instt. of CSIR taken together shall not exceed 06 years in any case. It would, therefore, not confer any right/claim implicit or explicit for any candidate for claiming extension or absorption in CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar. No TA/DA is admissible for attending the interview.

Terms and conditions

1. The decision of Director, CSIR-CSMCRI in all matters relating to eligibility, acceptance or rejection of applications, mode of selection, conduct of interview, cancellation of advertisement etc. will be final and binding on the candidates and no enquiry or correspondence will be entertained in this connection from any individual or person or agency.

2. The number of vacancies is provisional and may vary. The Director, CSIR-CSMCRI reserves the right to cancel all or part of the advertised vacancies at any stage of recruitment process without giving any reason thereof.

3. Age relaxation for candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/PwBD/Women categories shall be as per Government of India/CSIR instructions issued from time to time.

4. In case of Universities/Institutes awarding CGPA/SGPA/OGPA Grades etc., candidates are requested to convert the same into percentage based on the formula as per their University/Institute and attached accordingly.

5. If it is found at any stage of the process or thereafter that the candidate does not fulfill the eligibility criteria their candidature shall be cancelled without assigning any reason whatsoever.

6. Experience certificates must clearly indicate the duration of experience, place of work, and position held. Contractual work experience will not be considered as part of experience.