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Internship Description
Job Description:
As the Middle East & North Africa’s 1st & leading brand on chitosan solutions; we value the power of community and the impact of supporting local scientific achievements & talent across the researchers’ community in Egypt. Chitosan Egypt is Establishing Africa’s 1st Chitosan Scholar Hub which fosters a community of support, knowledge transfer and partnerships between science & industry!
Chitosan Egypt is seeking to hire a Scientific Community Coordinator; to connect & foster relationships with chitosan researchers across universities, research centres and institutions across Egypt to document & share their research achievements on chitosan-platforms to the wider world!
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Researching, Collecting data, & profiling top-performing chitosan researchers in Egypt
- Outreaching & connecting with the chitosan researchers to meet them online/offline for interviews on their chitosan research achievements
- Outreach to researchers regarding building potential scientific-Industrial partnerships with Chitosan Egypt utilising tailored chitosan extracts
- Manage all outreach activities with researchers such as phone calls, emails, meetings & interviews
- Outline & build interview scripts
- Support the digital marketing team with articulated content on researchers profiles
- Research scientific content that would complement the researcher’s interview
- Coordinate the Middle East & North Africa’s 1st Chitosan Scholar Hub soft Launch & coordinate all relevant online & offline activities for continuous engagement of community
- Submit the weekly report on week’s progress
The intern will learn:
- Communication skills & techniques
- Community-coordination skills & techniques
- Research projects dynamics
- Scientific-industrial partnerships basics
Application Deadline: 3 June 2021
Internship Start date: 20 June 2021
Duration: 8 Weeks
Internship Requirements
- Basic understanding of community development principles & practice
- Ability to interact effectively with individuals, groups and organisations
- A self-starter with the ability to work independently and efficiently
- Attention to detail, accuracy and the ability to multi-task
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good written & spoken English for communication, research & writing
- Versatile & analytical thinker
- Passionate about scientific research and scientific-industrial synergies
- A graduate Bachelor degree BSc from a scientific faculty [ sciences, agriculture, biotechnology, pharmacy]
