Researchers’ career and professional development
We are now recruiting core contributors
Vitae is recruiting core contributors for their research staff blog, which will be launched in October 2009. The remit of the blog will be career, professional and personal development of researchers. To ensure a lively multi-author site we are looking for a team of bloggers to post on:
- career, professional and personal development
- up and coming events and news related to career, professional and personal development
- policy developments relevant to research staff e.g. the Concordat
- feature articles such as interviews, career histories, academics talking about their time as a member of research staff etc.
- useful resources for research staff
Job description:
You’d be required to
- submit a minimum of three posts per month
- a minimum of ten comments on other articles per month
- publicise the blog
- solicite articles from others
You should ensure that your posts are regular and spread across the month.
Person specification:
- current member of research staff
- excellent written communication skills
- needs to be available for training/ team building day on the 8th of October
In your application please include:
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an explanation of why you want to be a Vitae research staff blogger
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your CV
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an example of a post you might want to publish on our blog (300 words maximum)
to reach us by Monday 28th of September
Remuneration
Will be £100 per month. Initial contract will be for 6 months.
Please send you application to Dr Tennie Videler at tennie.videler@vitae.ac.uk.
for more information or an informal chat please contact Tennie Videler at tennie.videler@vitae.ac.uk



