Fulbright Israel Community

The Fulbright commission in Israel is currently seeking qualified candidates to fill the following position:
 

Office Manager

80% -Full-time work in Tel Aviv, flexible hours. To support the administrative activities of the commission by providing high-level administrative support, managing the Office, help planning special events and other matters assigned by the Director.

Duties and Responsibilities
• To answer telephone, and provide adequate information to callers.
• Coordinate appointments& meetings, maintain calendar (manually and electronically).
• Perform general office and administrative tasks 
• Establish and update files, records, accounts and other information as needed to support and document functional operations and activities.
• Keep office space organized and friendly to staff and guests.
• Assist the staff in special event operations.
• Other duties as assigned by the director.

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree (in all fields) 
• 3 year work experience
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• High energy and commitment.

Qualifications
• English and Hebrew at the mother tongue level - speech, reading and writing !
• Must possess good interpersonal skills/human relations 
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suites and applications to include Excel.

Applications are submitted through the following link:

http://www.tfaforms.com/359754?tfa_1=01817&tfa_16=MTM

Only appropriate applications will be answered!

A new exhibition has opened at Bay College by Terri Warpinski, Fulbright Senior Scholar 2000 to the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.

Surface Tension will be open till September 18, including an Artist Talk and a reception on September 3rd.

For more details click here.

Professor Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Fulbright Post-Doctoral Alumni 2001 to Harvard University, together with a group of researchers from Tel Aviv University, published a new article at Nature Nanotechnology magazine about a nano-vaccine for melanoma. Until now the vaccine has been proven effective in mice in preventing the development of melanoma and in treating primary tumors and metastases that result from the disease.
For the full article.

Photo by Ronit Satchi-Fainaro.

The call for applications for the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowships to the US is now open. Full details are on our website. 

Submission deadline is December 2nd, 2019. Good luck to everyone!

Israeli alumnus, Professor Yuval Feldman, has won the 2019 Bruno Memorial Award, presented by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) to scholars and scientists who display exceptional potential and whose achievements indicate future breakthroughs in their fields. The Mori Lazarof Professor of Legal Research at Bar-Ilan U.'s Law Faculty, Feldman was a Fulbright fellow at UC-Berkeley in '99. Read more on the IIAS site HERE.