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Research Associate

Number of positions available: 0

Your work profile and job requirements will include, but not be limited to:

  • Writing a minimum of 2 opinion pieces, 1 Insight and 1 Issue Brief for ORCA a month (this will change as our publications expand).
  • Commissioning at least 4 articles from young scholars for ORCA in a month with focus given to international scholars.
  • Coordinating outreach for ORCA via MoU collaborations with institutes across the world.
  • Ideating projects and ventures that ORCA could undertake.
  • Coordinating our social media outreach and handling interns assigned to you.
  • Publishing outside of ORCA with your designation to promote outreach.
  • Reviewing a book once every two months.
  • Assisting in administrative tasks, organising webinars and ideating conferences to engage scholarship.
  • Guiding outreach to research and educational institutions in a bid to further ORCA’s marketing.
  • Liasoning over official channels on behalf of ORCA with concerned authorities.

Pay Scale:
As per industry standards and experience (Starting from 30,000/- PM)

Eligibility Criteria:
1. Degree qualifications: B.A. (with adequate work experience/knowledge), M.A. or Ph.D. in International Studies/ Area Studies -Asia / China focused scholarship
2. Publication experience
3. Good communication skills, exceptional command over written and spoken English, writing and copy-editing skills.
4. Interest in learning, publishing and taking on self-driven research projects
 
Interested scholars should send their resume (with links to any publications) and a one-page cover letter (focused on answering “Why ORCA is right for you and why you are right for ORCA”) to writetous.orca@gmail.com. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to submit a small writeup on a topic provided by us, followed by an in-personal interview.

Digital Marketing Intern

Number of positions available: 2

  • ORCA is looking to provide 2 internships to Digital Marketing students in their BA/MA.
  • The key role will be to manage the Twitter account of ORCA.
  • The duration is 3 months.
  • The internship is WFH and unpaid.Intern deliverables will be: A letter of recommendation LoR Certificate; Exposure with possibility of PPO based on performance.

Interested applicants should send their resume to writetous.orca@gmail.com.

Research Intern

Number of positions available: 2

Your work profile and job requirements will include, but not be limited to:

  • The most primary task of the intern will be working on our daily newsletter, which will be published with their name to aid their by line exposures as well.
  • Writing a minimum of 1 opinion pieces or 1 Insight or 1 Issue Brief for ORCA during tenure of internship.
  • Commissioning at least an article from young scholars for ORCA.
  • Ideating projects and ventures that ORCA could undertake.
  • Assisting in administrative tasks,  webinars and  conferences.

Pay Scale: Unpaid

Eligibility Criteria:
1. Degree qualifications: B.A./M.A. in International Studies/ Area Studies -Asia / China focused scholarship / Social Media Marketing
2. Good communication skills, exceptional command over written and spoken English, writing and copy-editing skills.
3. Interest in learning, publishing and taking on self-driven research projects
 
Interested applicants should send their resume and a one-page cover letter (focused on answering “Why ORCA is right for you and why you are right for ORCA”) to writetous.orca@gmail.com.

SEO Specialist

Number of positions available: 1

Your work profile and job requirements will include, but not be limited to:

  • Conducting SEO analysis; analysing and adding key phrase; ensuring  readability and track SEO performance
  • Performing ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimisation
  • Collecting and analysing data and results, identifying trends and insights
  • Researching and implementing search engine optimisation recommendations
  • Optimising copy and landing pages for search engine marketing
  • Working with editorial and marketing teams to drive SEO in content creation and content programming
  • Recommending changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions for target keywords
  • Working closely with the other team members to meet defined goals

Pay Scale: As per industry standard
Type: Contractual basis

Eligibility Criteria:
1. Proven SEO experience
2. Knowledge of ranking factors and search engine algorithms
3. Experience with WordPress, content management systems (CMS) and plugins.
4. In-depth experience with website analytics tools (e.g, Google Analytics)
5. Interest in learning and taking on self-driven research projects
 
Interested applicants should send their resume, along with their rate cards and a one-page cover letter to writetous.orca@gmail.com.