🗺️🇪🇸🇲🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 October's here

Hi all! This issue has a wide range of offers, located throughout Europe (and UK), as well as some internships. Egon Soda’s Delta y Estuario was on my speakers while typing. Enjoy your weekend!

🇬🇧 Communications Officer — IN-PART

Who: IN-PART
What: This role involves producing content across a range of channels and formats to communicate the latest academic research to industry and best practices for collaboration between the two. We’re looking for an engaged, proactive individual to join our team which combines talent in digital marketing and science communication with the aim of uniting the research ecosystem, scaling our growth, and establishing us as the gold standard for university-industry matchmaking.
Where: London, Sheffield or remote/hybrid UK-based
When: 01/11/2021
How much: £26000 + competitive depending on the applicant
More info: https://in-part.com/careers

🇪🇸 Marketing and Customer Service Specialist — European Intellectual Property Office

Who: European Intellectual Property Office
What: The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is organising a selection procedure in order to constitute a reserve list from which to fill vacant post(s) of Marketing and Customer Service Specialist. The Office is looking for highly knowledgeable and capable marketing and customer services professionals able to design and implement marketing campaigns and innovative initiatives in view of reaching its strategic goals. The ideal candidate would have a proven track record of providing impeccable customer service solutions. The selection procedure is aimed to fill vacant posts in the Customer Department. The ensuing reserve list may also be used for recruitment to similar posts in other departments depending on the EUIPO’s needs.
Where: Alicante, Spain
When: 26/10/2021 23:59 Alicante time (CET)
How much: AD 6 (please look into their salary scales)
More info: https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/vacancies

🇲🇹 Comms and engagement officer — JUSTNature H2020

Who: H2020 project JUSTNature H2020

What: We are working with the Gzira Local Council to setup a city learning lab and implement nature based solutions to improve the area. We are looking for people with excellent project management, communications and marketing experience.

Where: Malta

When: Tuesday, 12th October 2021

How much: €24,960 per annum

More info: https://bit.ly/JUSTNatureUM1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Science Media Centre Internship programme — Science Media Centre

Who: Science Media Centre Internship

What: The Science Media Centre (SMC) is an independent press office for science, which works on some of the most controversial topics around. We have a very popular internship programme and many of our interns have gone on to work in science communications or media. Applications are now open for internships from January 2022 – July 2022.

We’re a small team of nine permanent staff, and our interns provide invaluable support and get to see everything that we work on and do. The internship mainly involves research and administrative tasks, and is most suitable for final-year undergrads, postgrad students or those looking for an early-stage career change. We have interns with us all year, with each working for four weeks. Our interns work full-time 35-hour weeks, and we pay the London Living Wage (currently £10.85/hour).

Where: London, England

When: doesn’t say

How much: London Living Wage (currently £10.85/hour)

More info: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/interns/ and https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Role-Profile-SMC-Interns.pdf

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Head of Sustainable Futures — We The Curious

Who: We The Curious

What: We The Curious’ sustainability work began in 2011 and has grown so that we are now recognised as the world leader in the fast-developing field of sustainability in science centres. As part of the Leadership Team, you will lead on We The Curious’ Sustainable Futures work and strategy, embedding sustainability into the culture of the organisation and being a spokesperson for sustainability for the organisation, city and sector. You will champion action on the climate and ecology emergency within We The Curious and with its audiences. You’ll partner and lead a programme of organisational change and training to engage all staff and ensure environmental sustainability is embedded into the culture of the organisation.

Where: Bristol, England

When: 17th October 2021, Midnight

How much: £44,000-£50,000 per annum, pro rata, dependent on experience

More info: https://wethecurious.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=958a93aa-8845-4d1a-b923-487939026d8a

🗺️ Freelance Scientific Social Media Officer — eLife

Who: eLife

What: eLife is looking for a freelance Scientific Social Media Officer to work with our new Communities team and help support eLife’s efforts to reoptimize peer review. Motivated to help improve how research is reported and evaluated, you will have primary responsibility for using social media to help bring the “publish, then review” model to life in a way that benefits the broader research community.

Where: The post holder may work remotely within or outside of the UK. The eLife offices are based in Cambridge, UK.

When: October 18, 2021.

How much: hourly rate of £15 to £20 (dependent on experience)

More info: https://elifesciences.org/jobs/df5149f2/freelance-scientific-social-media-officer

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Space Expert — National Space Centre

Who: Space Expert

What: We are looking to recruit a confident, outgoing individual to join the National Space Centre and provide in-house space expertise and knowledge for the Discovery and Marketing teams. The varied and interesting role includes: providing monthly space updates, fact checking, supporting outreach events and activities, and acting as an space spokesperson for media requests and an expert speaker for corporate events where necessary. The successful candidate will be conduit between industry and academia, help answer online space questions and booking guest speakers.
The successful candidate will ideally have a MPhys / Masters / PhD in science, experience in a role that includes science communication / public engagement, and have expertise in exploration, astronomy or satellite applications, with a good general knowledge across the space science field. They will be passionate about communicating space related news and information, be able to produce factually accurate and well written work, suitable for a range of audiences, and be confident when presenting to a live audience and media interviews.