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Public Programme Manager, Salary: circa £30k (negotiable), Vacancy Type: Full-Time Position, Permanent Contract The Royal Institution (Ri) is an independent charity dedicated to increasing knowledge of, excitement for and involvement in science and technology for current and future generations through its public and young peoples' programmes, history of science activities and scientific research. As part of our commitment to life-long education, the Ri organises an events programme for the general public. With speakers ranging from popular faces such as Prof Brian Cox and Lord Robert Winston, and subjects as diverse as genetics and nanotechnology, these events capture the imagination of people from all walks of life. There is now a requirement for a managerial position to support the Director of Science and Education in delivering this programme. The position will hold financial and operational responsibility for managing and delivering the Ri public programme, which will include the development and delivery of events (both funded and income generating), ensuring that funding and sponsorship of events is achieved, marketing and promoting events and providing effective external and internal customer services. The successful applicant will be educated to degree level or equivalent (science degree desirable) and have experience in organising science events for the public, as well as the creative ability to enable the creation of new and engaging events. Excellent organisation and communication skills will be essential, as will general familiarity with science and technology. The job description and person specification for this position, as well as information on how to apply, can be downloaded from our website: http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000003480. ********************************************************************** 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 You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptible Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************