Reminder – Today Deadline – Call for Coordinators for our Working Group

Dear all, dear cooperators 😉 !

Our working group is looking for two new group coordinators. Holly Stephens and me lay down our positions as coordinators due to new professional and / or personal endeavors!

Profile of the coordinator

young scholar (master, PhD or Postdoc) researching at the crossfield of cooperatives and / or cooperation of any discipline
interest in current developments in cooperative research from different perspectives and disciplines
taking leadership, motivating other people, a sense of community spirit and skilled or eager to learn about group coordination and building a community by the principle of "learning by doing"
being a self-reliant but also a good team player
having a spare time of 2-4 hours per week willing to invest
Tasks
You decide what you do to build up the group. Possible tasks may include:

proposing and supporting young scholars to organise a face-to-face meeting / workshop/ conference/ lecture series etc. with advice and support
organise yourself with a group the annual face-to-face meeting / workshop
organising a working group meeting at the annual YSI European meeting in Trento
organise and coordinate a webinar series
Group coordinators are voluntary position. The YSI managers (paid staff) Heske, Thomas and Jay support you in your work.

We hope to have a two coordinators with diverse background (female and male, from different continents).

If you are interested in this voluntary position, please send me your motivation letter (no CV) where you explain your motivation and ideas for the working group as well as who you are at coop@youngscholarsinitiative.org until November, 15 2018.

We will notify you by the end of November/ beginning of December.

Our best,

Holly & Esther