Head of Outreach, APS

The American Physical Society (APS) seeks a PhD Physicist with solid public outreach experience to lead our public outreach department. Qualified candidates will have a creative, self starting and interactive personality, excellent communication and organizational skills; the ability to work with deadlines; and strong proficiency in utilizing the Internet in the area of web page maintenance. Responsibilities include maintaining the APS public outreach website, ¿PhysicsCentral¿; overseeing the APS middle school outreach activity, ¿PhysicsQuest'; collaborating on other APS outreach initiatives; and supervision of a public outreach specialist. This position is based at APS headquarters in College Park, MD (within walking distance of the College Park Metro station). More information about current and recent APS outreach programs can be obtained from www.physicscentral.com (click on physics projects). Competitive starting salary and outstanding benefits package offered. Visit our website at www.aps.org. To apply, send cover letter (include salary requirement), résumé and reference contact information to: Director of Human Resources at personnel@aps.org.