We seek a proactive Conference Scientific Advisor to enhance our global academic events. Responsibilities include setting event guidelines, monitoring industry updates, engaging with authoritative organizations and forming a scientific advisory board. You’ll conduct interviews, create reports, support PR issue resolution, and develop strategies to drive the growth of our conference team.

As a Conference Scientific Advisor you will: 

• Establish guidelines for company-wide events to enhance a professional image of a global academic publisher.
• Monitor the online news/resources to check the updates on suspicious conference organizations;
• Apply to join key authoritative organizations and advocate for MDPI events.
• Establish scientific advisory board for conferences, composed of external scholars, to provide suggestions and maintain ongoing relationships through regular meetings.
• Conduct interviews with attendees, chairs, speakers, and key opinion leaders (KOLs) involved in the conference, and generate content, including qualitative and quantitative analysis reports on conference-related topics.
• Provide support in resolving regional PR issues, if applicable.
• Develop strategies and propose potential solutions to enhance the growth of the conference team.

Requirements:

• PhD degree holder in a scientific field;
• Published at least 3 research papers is considered a plus;
• Had extensive experience in attending academic conferences;
• Outspoken and easy going;
• Experience in organizing events is preferred;
• Experience in meeting scholars online;
• Strategic thinking.

About MDPI

A pioneer in scholarly Open Access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Our mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. We operate more than 300 diverse, peer-reviewed, Open Access journals supported by over 35,500 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is openly and broadly available.
MDPI is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and North America (Canada). We are committed to ensuring that high quality research is made available as quickly as possible. We also support sustainability projects as key themes in many journals, as well as through the MDPI Sustainability Foundation.
MDPI Romania was opened in 2019 with a first office and headquarters in Cluj-Napoca. Its impressive growth has led to the inauguration of a second office, in Bucharest, in late 2020. With a growing team of over 400 young people, we’re witnessing a continuous development both of our people and services.

Benefits for working at MDPI:

• Public transportation benefits;
  
• Flexible schedule;
  
• Private medical health insurance;
  
• Meal vouchers;
  
• Facilities at the office.