The phrase "external role" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a role or position that exists outside or beyond a particular organization, institution, or group. Example: The company's CEO has taken on an external role as a board member for a non-profit organization.
The school brought in external role models including a black lesbian rapper and a gay Muslim group.
Ironically, proposals in the much-criticised Lisbon treaty, including the merging of the two foreign affairs posts, would help provide greater coherence to the EU's external role.
Our external role models were our teachers, both in school and university, who taught us to be inquisitive, analytical, articulate, and team-oriented.
Often it's easier to find an external role than an internal one, because outside companies don't come with red tape or rules of engagement.
Jyll F. Holzman, 48, senior vice president for advertising, will assume part of the external role previously filled by Ms. Robinson as representative of the newspaper in publishing industry groups and will take on some of Ms. Robinson's speaking engagements.
While the external role a brand plays in building trust with stakeholders is fairly obvious, the internal role is less so.
A single managerial job cannot be arbitrarily split, for example, into internal and external roles, for information from both sources must be brought to bear on the same decisions.
Of course, there are external roles being played, but such roles only grow in proportion to the local willingness to accept and implement them.
All 15 proteins were predicted to contain secretory signal sequences, suggesting they have secretory pathway or external roles.
America, we all know, played that external referee role in Iraq — hugely ineptly at first.
The TCIO has already said that it plans to split the job into two, with the CEO having an external facing role and a deputy CEO acting as more of an event organizer.
