Role Title: 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.