A job opening of possible interest to the readers of this list. Help with spreading the news much appreciated.
Cheers,
Salvatore Mele/CERN

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Make Science Work Better
Information Services Manager / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

We want you to come help us make science work better.

How?  By managing the product development and operations of a communication infrastructure for scientific papers and information at http://inspirehep.net  and by analyzing the evolution of the scientific research process in order to plan more effective systems.

What's involved?

 *   Manage a team of 6, consisting of software developers and metadata curators, as we work on INSPIRE, the next-generation article search and discovery engine for High Energy Physics (HEP) at inspirehep.net
 *   Work closely with information managers at other INSPIRE sites to manage the INSPIRE product: setting goals and priorities, envisioning new features, coordinating development activities, planning community outreach
 *   Working in concert with peer managers and developers, do science about science: studying citation networks, peer acceptance and status signalling in scientific networks.  Then ask yourself: how can we make this process smoother?
 *   Leverage insights from INSPIRE to drive revolutionary improvements to research delivery across SLAC's full research portfolio: photon science, biology, accelerator science, and more

What do you need?

 *   To know and care about science.  You should be familiar with academic publishing and with scientific collaboration.  You should have a degree in a quantitative field such as physics, mathematics, or computer science, or similar, and a good knowledge of how HEP or other scientific disciplines work "from the inside".  Having a deep understanding of the academic publishing landscape is a big plus.
 *   Evidence of leadership.  Past management experience, thrilling tales of survival on a desert island, or similar.  You're going to have to work with people from different cultures with varying degrees of technical acumen and even different amounts of English.  Not only that, but you're going to have to get them pulling in the same direction.  Rasputin need not apply.
 *   Programming cred... even if not serious chops.  We're not asking you to build the service with your bare hands, but you will have to look at code now and then.  We love very high-level languages, particularly Python.  If you have background building things in a different language but you think you can pick Python up quickly, we'd still like to talk.  If you think programming stopped being fun after COBOL went out of fashion, consider applying elsewhere.
 *   Curiosity.  We've got a large, structured, and more-or-less complete data set of not only HEP research papers, but the metadata for those papers.  There are a lot of questions that can be answered with this data, and we want you to ask them.  Then answer them.

Where can you find out more?
      To see SLAC's full internal listing and apply, go to:

https://tbe.taleo.net/NA12/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=SLAC&cws=1&rid=702

      To find out more about the INSPIRE collaboration (including presentations!) see:

http://projecthepinspire.net

	INSPIRE production service at

http://inspirehep.net