Saeed Jafari Email & Phone Number

Building and maintaining relationships with our stakeholders, partners, and sponsors is a key element of what I do. I engage with external parties to align their goals with WSWA's mission, fostering collaborations that increase our impact in the space community.I represent the organization at industry events and networking opportunities, building valuable space and science industry relationships. I communicate goals and expectations clearly to foster effective interactions that progress space exploration and education.I assist with PR, and social media, and contribute to external communication. I uphold WSWA's beliefs and mission by representing our brand and documenting and reporting our external relations actions to strategize future outreach and collaboration.

I have kept coordinating and developing events and helped the organizers to work more efficient programs. I ran training sessions for World Space Week Iran Coordinating Committee members, provided consultation reports on the developing events, analyzed and provided feedback on their plans for workshops and conferences.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Pitched science stories and episode concepts, as well as developed, reported, and produced stories for new projects across format and genre. Booked and conducted interviews with science journalists, scientists, interdisciplinary experts, and writers. FillCast uses the sword of science to test, fact check and often dispel popular cultural myths and misconceptions. The podcast takes on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between. We have fun drawing surprising connections between the latest science research and science fiction stories.Listen to the podcast here: https://fillcast.ir/

I act as the point of contact for SGAC for the Middle East region whilst documenting and maintaining overall activities and workplans of ME National Points of Contact (NPoCs) within their respective countries (events, sponsorship & fundraising, scholarships, projects, etc.)Executive Secretaries are elected by the Executive Office, RESs constitute the SGAC Executive Council which is responsible for mid-level decision-making within the organisation in the region.The Space Generation Advisory Council is a global non-governmental, non-profit organisation and network which aims to represent university students and young space professionals to the United Nations, space agencies, industry, and academia.

Delivered some lectures on science communication in media and society, discourse analysis in SciComm, psycholinguistics in science education, and public engagement with science at the Linguistics Students' Association of the University of Kurdistan, determined students' research topics, reviewed and providing feedback on students' presentations.

As project manager, I co-chair the project council, which is a working group that considers new project ideas, oversees ongoing projects and maintains an overall strategy for Heritage of the Sky projects.I am also in charge of the strategic approach, planning and coordinating the implementation of the project. I do media relations and media pitching in order to obtain international media coverage. I wrote grant proposals, web news, a weekly newsletter, and coordinated the teams that handle the media campaign and other social media channels.

• Coordinated and supervised the different education and outreach events to ensure the success of our national and local events (> 10 events a year locally– up to 200 participants).• Sustained and boosted the organisation’s external image and impact through proper communication strategies.• Mobilised new partnerships, and in particular pursuing opportunities for funding in order to ensure financial sustainability for the organisation (> 5 new partnerships and doubled the net profit from 2020 to 2021 during leadership period).

Managed international-funded projects, including authoring deliverables and annual reports; coordinating third parties’ work; and liaising with global partners. Assisted in coordinating five initiatives, Saros-led project involving 10 partners and associated partners. Co-organised SciComm workshops and events, including Heritage of the Sky, Yalda's Night and Astronomy E-magazine.

I assisted a small but crack online editorial team and wrote and edited content on science, space technology and exploration for Saros's social media and website. Formats included long-form articles, multimedia interactives, edited interviews, audio slide shows, blog posts, and pod- and vodcasts.

Edited, trained and oversaw growing science and culture news team with a focus on astronomy, space exploration, and languages for ScienceOnline.ir. Provided daily science, launches, and culture news coverage for this pioneering digital news website. Wrote and edited news stories and long-form pieces, collaborated with video and social teams for coverage on other platforms. Covered breaking news events and programs in science and technology in Iran and worldwide. Covered peer-reviewed science communications studies.

I co-managed scientific communication and publishing activities on science online and via @scienceonline on Instagram and Facebook.Activities include:- Writing content, and publishing/promoting it on the above channels - Providing inputs to multimedia products including infographics, videos, media kits, brochures, posters etc- Contributing to communications plans for science online's programmes and workshops- Supporting media events around special events such as launch (e.g. ESA/NASA's missions) or landing (e.g. Rosetta/Philae) - Reporting outreach events and supporting media briefings at science conferences - Participating in Iran sci pops meetings, and science team meetings of scientific organisations

I designed, coordinated and taught space exploration and technology subjects: how space technology improves our lives, societal benefits of space technology and why is space exploration important.

Tehran Province, Iran

During my co-operation as a Head of Education and Public Engagement at Human and Space Museum developed prototype space science engagement activity to be run at one of the museum’s Space Sunday. I developed an activity entitled “NEOs; the Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, which is concerned with the science behind dangerous collision of near-Earth objects. I helped develop The Museum Method and curriculum and led the development, organizational and financial growth of the workshop program that has now trained over 15 space science communicators and reporters nationally. I led the growth of initiatives such as The Wiki Space, an Iranian space science and technology platform, developed the Museum web, social media and outreach strategy and team; and pioneered new workshops, graduate courses, and an annual Yuri's Night program in Tehran.

Wrote and produced news and feature programs about space technology and space science topics for the multimedia SpaceMag.com.

Reported space story and live-tweeted developments about technologies of space travel and exploration and wrote a feature story about how space technology improves our lives.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Theoretical Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Founding Director and Head of Linguistics Students' Association of University of Kurdistan / Editor-In-Chief.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A), Applied Linguistics And Communication

Activities and Societies: Head of Applied Linguistics Students' Association of Ershad University of Damavand