We are looking for Regional/Country Coordinators who will be interested to support the ArabUNi initiative in their regions/countries. As a Region/Country Coordinator you will be provided with full support by WASD including all template and letters ready to use with universities, promotional and marketing material and anything else you require.

Regional Coordinators

Duties and responsibilities of the Regional Coordinators includes following:

• Promote ArabUNi in your region and across the world. In doing so please promote ArabUNi scope and focus, the appointment of new Countries Coordinators, relevant conference and promotional opportunities, market insights, and best university nominations. You can also promote ArabUNi by sharing new content alerts with your networks and recommending ArabUNi to your university’s information professional.
• Act as ArabUNi ambassador to help spread the word about the initiative at conferences or in discussions with interested colleagues/contacts, remember social media is an excellent tool particularly during the global lockdown.
• Liaise with your Countries Coordinators in all matters, particularly selection of universities and recommendations for inclusion of any particular research centre and/or individual researcher in the platform.
• Liaise with your Countries Coordinators to compile a list of reviewers and assessors with their particulars: i.e., name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. We will need to acknowledge all reviewers and assessors in all our publications at a later stage.
• Act as a strategy advisor and provides feedback by sharing helpful criticism/information with ArabUNi Executive Team to assist in the development and direction of the initiative:
  • Subject expertise: is ArabUNi meeting the needs of universities and governments.
  • Direction for ArabUNi: ArabUNi Executive Team and the Advisory Board should together define goals for ArabUNi and set strategies.
  • Competition: how are the competitors doing in your region particularly the various ranking and indexing organisations?
  • Ideas and innovations.
  • Assessing ArabUNi situation: what is working or not? What characteristics of ArabUNi should we maintain?

Benefits for successful Regional Coordinators includes but not limited to the followings:

• An official appointment letter from WASD as a Regional Coordinator and Ambassador for ArabUNi.
• Acknowledgement in all publications (online and printed) relating to ArabUNi initiative.
• 50% discount of WASD annual conference registration fee provided that you manage to register at least 10 universities from your region (individual Coordinators) excluding your own country or at least 25 universities excluding your own universities in the case of more than one Regional Coordinator.
• If however, you manage to register more than 20 universities in your region (individual Coordinators) or more than 50 universities (Co-Coordinators) excluding your own countries then we are happy to waive your entire registration fee for the conference.
• Outstanding contribution certificate that can be displayed in your office.

Country Coordinators

Duties and responsibilities of the Country Coordinators includes following:

• Promote ArabUNi in your country and across the world. In doing so please promote ArabUNi scope and focus, the appointment of new University Coordinators (each university will be required to nominate an internal coordinator to liaise with ArabUNi), relevant conference and promotional opportunities, market insights, and best university nominations. You can also promote ArabUNi by sharing new content alerts with your networks and recommending ArabUNi to your university’s information professional.
• Act as ArabUNi ambassador to help spread the word about the initiative at conferences or in discussions with interested colleagues/contacts, remember social media is an excellent tool particularly during the global lockdown.
• Liaise with your Regional Coordinators (where applicable) in all matters, particularly selection of universities and recommendations for inclusion of any particular research centre and/or individual researcher in the platform.
• Develop a list of reviewers and assessors with their particulars: i.e., name, title, institutional affiliation, mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. We will need to acknowledge all reviewers and assessors in all our publications at a later stage.
• Act as a strategy advisor and provides feedback by sharing helpful criticism/information with your Regional Coordinators to assist in the development and direction of the initiative:
  • Subject expertise: is ArabUNi meeting the needs of universities and governments.
  • Direction for ArabUNi: ArabUNi Executive Team and the Advisory Board should together define goals for ArabUNi and set strategies.
  • Competition: how are the competitors doing in your country particularly the various ranking and indexing organisations?
  • Ideas and innovations.
  • Assessing ArabUNi situation: what is working or not? What characteristics of ArabUNi should we maintain?

Benefits for successful Country Coordinators includes but not limited to the followings:

• An official appointment letter from WASD as a Country Coordinator and Ambassador for ArabUNi.
• As a Country Coordinator you will be acknowledge in all publications (online and printed) relating to ArabUNi initiative.
• 50% discount of WASD annual conference registration fee provided that you manage to register at least 3 universities from your country (individual Coordinators) excluding your own university or at least 5 universities excluding your own universities in the case of more than one Country Coordinator.
• If you manage to register more than 5 universities in your country (individual Coordinators) or more than 8 universities (Co-Coordinators) excluding your own universities then we are happy to waive your entire registration fee for the conference.
• Outstanding contribution certificate that can be displayed in your office.