Social Incubation Centre is a civic centre under Istanbul Bilgi University Civil Society Studies Unit in Istanbul. It’s a co-working space for NGO’s and grassroots civic initiatives which working on human rights area. Main aim of Bilgi Social Incubation Center support empowerment of the organisational capacities of the NGO’s and grassroots civic initiatives by providing opportunities in mentorship, trainings, workshops, office space, study visits as well as horizontal learning spaces. So fellow will find the opportunity to meet lots of local and national NGO’s working in different theme and topics. And also will have an opportunity to meet lots of experts working on civil society in Turkey.

Main activities of Social Incubation Center are coordinating the Mentorship program, determine the needs of the NGO’s and civic initiatives and arrange the trainings and workshops, matching NGO’s with law organisations in pro-bono law network and supporting NGO’s in general. 

The fellow will be mainly responsible with digitalisation of the workshops and trainings. Fellow will record the trainings and workshops and will edit records and create short or full length videos of the trainings and workshops. Fellow will also help the Social Incubation team to coordinating the workshops and trainings. 

Fellow will meet lots of different type of organisations that working on different topics. If fellow has a knowledge in civil society and civil work Social Incubation Centre also will ask help in supporting the NGO’s and Civic Initiatives and creating possible networks between Turkish and Armenian NGO’s.

EXPECTED PROFILE

  • Know to use camera and shooting videos.
  • Know to edit and creating videos.
  • Know Turkish.
  • Familiar to NGO’s and civil society.
  • Ability to work in teams and also individually according to the task at hand,
  • Having motivation to cooperate with grassroot NGO’s

CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

We are making one training or workshop each week. That means we are expecting to be in the office at least training day for shooting the workshop. Although fellowship activity days can be flexible we are willing that fellow to be in the Center at least 3 days of the week to meet and be in touch with  NGO’s.

Fellowship will be implemented at Bilgi University Santral Campus in Istanbul, Turkey.

PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP 

5 months between September 2017 and May 2018