Scientific English Writer

The Role:

We are looking for a talented Scientific Writer to join our team! This role involves drafting high-quality content across diverse sectors and verticals, with a strong focus on technical and scientific subjects . Ideally, the candidate will have a background in technical writing and experience dealing with industries such as defence, aviation , and cybersecurity .

The role is fully seconded to one of our top clients, based in Abu Dhabi , offering an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist various client teams in writing news releases, media invites, Q&As, speeches, features, bios and other communication material such as corporate/business presentations in PPT or other such software
• Review, edit and rewrite all written material (to include traditional, digital, and social media content) as required by team members
• Understand the requirements of various teams and convey the client’s key messages adequately and appropriately through effective use of language
• Support teams by providing error-free media-worthy material
• Consult and guide client-handling teams on matters related to media requests
• Interact with team members and support them in building accurate communication measures
• Manage deadline-oriented workflow of releases, invites and requests from various team members on a daily basis
• Contribute to the development of new concepts, techniques or ideas at brainstorming sessions
• Support the project manager in ensuring that resources are in place to cover delivery of all written deliverables

Requirements

• Ideally, a Bachelor’s/master’s degree in English literature/journalism/communications.
• +3 years of experience in communications, public relations or journalism, or equivalent work experience
• Strong news sense and be well aware of global developments. A keen awareness of niche and emerging technologies is an advantage.
• The role requires a high performing, achievement-oriented professional with a keen understanding of the dynamic media environment as well as suitable soft skills to seamlessly navigate a high-pressure client environment
• Excellent grammar, editing, writing and re-writing skills
• A wordsmith who can provide error-free editorial content that is media-ready
• Ability to recognize the key messages of clients and offer effective ways to convey them to the relevant target audience
• Keen interest in writing content for sectors including defence, aviation, cybersecurity
• Capable of rapidly handling industry-specific research to add value to the editorial content and other communication materials for the teams
• Completely thorough with local, regional and global current-affairs
• Proficiency in English
• Ability to commute to Abu Dhabi on a daily basis with a flexibility to work from home on Fridays