People & Culture

Nova SBE is more than a school: It’s a community open to the world where students, faculty, staff, companies and professionals from many different industries meet every day. Here, we embrace diversity and learn from it. We are a meeting point for curious and restless minds, with a common goal to do different, to do better. We usually say that here... we are all pioneers.

At Nova SBE, we learn to be the best version of ourselves, putting everything we are into everything we do. We are a community focused on entrepreneurship, dedicated to creating talent and solutions capable of transforming the world in a positive way. It's what we call the Nova Way of Life - a new way of living, doing, being and learning.

Here, we focus on our people and our culture, which is unique - we seek individual development, without ever forgetting the well-being of all.

Our purpose is clear: to impact the world in a positive way.  This is the mission that makes us wake up every day with the will and energy to do more and better. Here, we are all pioneers.

Working at Nova SBE is not being afraid to create, propose or dream with new projects. If we fail, we will fail better next time. But if we get it right, we know that we have just built a little piece of the future for all different parties (students, community, corporate world).

Teresa Freitas

Working at Nova is, funny enough, like going back to school - a place where we learn every day. Here, we are challenged daily by innovative projects and disruptive approaches. At Nova SBE, we find an inexhaustible source of professionals with different origins, backgrounds and perspectives that cohabit and collaborate in the creation of an inspiring and unique ecosystem in Portugal. At Nova SBE, the only certainty is that any day will hardly look the same as another.

João Oliveira

I am impressed every day by the enormous will to change the world that moves everyone who works here, from the oldest to the most recent; we all feel that we have a mission that is bigger than ourselves. This is reflected in the creativity, the energy we put into the projects, the persistence, and the collaboration.

Joana Barba

Working at Nova SBE has allowed me to grow personally and professionally, in an environment with an excellent work-life balance, where I have been able to develop personally challenging and innovative projects with an impact on the organization and the community.

Frederico Pinto

Working at Nova SBE gives you a chance to “travel the world” without leaving our Carcavelos campus. You interact with students from all over the world and, hopefully, manage to have a positive impact on their current and future lives. More than a job, working at Nova SBE it is an opportunity to make the world a better place.

Carolina Sales

My work experience at Nova SBE can be described in three concepts: constant learning and development; participation in projects that aim to create impact in society, and immersion in a very dynamic and people-oriented culture.

José Alvim

What sets us apart

Engagement

Engagement

  • 80 % of Nova SBE workers feel engaged;
  • 71 % of employees consider Nova SBE a good place to work;
  • 85 % overall satisfaction rate;
  • 80 % of employees agree that Nova SBE has a clear vision for the future (above the national average of 64%).
Mobility

Mobility

  • 12 Outgoing international mobilities for Staff & Faculty in 2022/2023

- Japan, Turkey, Denmark, Macau, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Czechia, and Finland

  • 2 Incoming international mobilities in 2022/2023

- Swiss and Lithuania

A Sense of Belonging

A Sense of Belonging

  • Interactive gatherings
  • Staff and Faculty-only areas
  • Closeness within all levels of hierarchy
  • Closeness with the Dean
  • Town Hall meetings
  • Breakfast with the Dean
Training & Development

Training & Development

  • 8000 Training hours in 2022
  • 40-Hour Annual training programs in Leadership for middle management
  • Access to Nova SBE Executive Education courses
Flexibility

Flexibility

  • Hybrid and flexible work models
Recruitment And Talent Management

Recruitment And Talent Management

  • 52% of Staff growth over the last two years
  • 54 % of Faculty and Staff has worked at Nova SBE over two years
  • 77.56% Talent retention rate
  • Over 300 spontaneous applications per year
Onboarding

Onboarding

  • Strong onboarding processes
  • Campus tour
  • Close integration sessions with team members
  • Multiple workshops and welcome sessions from the school’s strategic areas for newcomers
  • 82% New hire retention
Well-being

Well-being

  • Annual well-being week

- Well-being at home
- Well-being at work
- Mental well-being
- Food and Nutrition

  • Access to clinical psychologists and family therapists for staff members
  • Several protocols with various companies for discounts on various products and services
  • Breastfeeding rooms
  • Multiple activity groups outside campus.

Open positions

Recruitment Procedure of a Senior Technician for an individual employment contract regime for an open ended term contract. 

Recruitment Procedure of a Technical Assistant for an individual employment contract regime for an uncertain term contract. 

Recruitment Procedure of a Technical Assistant for an individual employment contract regime for an uncertain term contract. 

Recruitment Procedure of a Senior Technician for an individual employment contract regime for an certain contract.

Recruitment Procedure of a Senior Technician for an individual employment contract regime for an undetermined contract.

Recruitment Procedure of 1 st grade middle manager on service commission.

Recruitment Procedure of a Technical Assistant for an individual employment contract regime for an uncertain term contract. 

Recruitment Procedure of a Senior Technician for an individual employment contract regime for an undetermined contract.

Recruitment Procedure of a Senior Technician for an individual employment contract regime for an undetermined contract.

Feeling spontaneous?

If you can't find any available position in your area but identify with our School’s values and feel you could make a difference here, we would love to meet you. Send us a spontaneous application by email, including a cover letter and CV.