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Fellowship in the area of Dissemination, Communication and Outreach, Newsletter editor at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland The EGEE-II project (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, www.eu-egee.org) is a major international Grid computing project co-funded by the European Union. CERN is the coordinator of this project, which involves more than 90 institutes in 32 countries around the globe, and also leads the Dissemination, Outreach and Communication activity (NA2). Recently, CERN and Open Science Grid (OSG) in the USA, another major Grid project, began producing a joint, international electronic newsletter, based on the successful Science Grid This Week model which has been in operation for 18 months. The new newsletter, international Science Grid This Week (iSGTW for short, see www.isgtw.org), will be a common e-newsletter to increase awareness of the achievements of scientific Grids, aimed at scientists, Grid developers and operators, policy makers and opinion leaders, industry and the press. It has a circulation of over 2000 by email. To support this activity, CERN is looking for an editor who will also write features for the weekly newsletter, sourcing articles, overseeing the layout and producing the newsletter on a weekly basis. This position would be for 12 months, starting in April 2007. It will be co-funded by EGEE and OSG and will involve frequent travel to the United States, as well as to major Grid events and activities in Europe. Qualification Requirements Education: University degree or equivalent in science, science communication or other disciplines relevant to the position. Experience and Knowledge: • Between three and ten years’ relevant professional communication experience in a scientific area; • experience of editing publications (electronic publications a bonus); • excellent written, communication, and organisational skills; • very good knowledge in English; basic knowledge of French of an undertaking to acquire it rapidly Contact To apply, please send your CV and cover letter, by e-mail to: Anna Cook, CERN EGE group Section Leader: [log in to unmask] +41 22 767 14 85 Deadline for applications: 31 January 2007 _________________________________________________________________ Think you're a film buff? Play the Movie Mogul quiz and win fantastic prizes! http://www.msnmoviemogul.com ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk **********************************************************************