Please pass on to interested colleagues:

Consult USAJOBS (http://www.usajobs.gov/) for the complete vacancy announcement; in the search boxes at http://www.usajobs.gov/ enter “Supervisory Librarian” and “Maryland.”

Application instructions posted at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/jobs/jobs.html

Applications must be received by 11:59 pm on the closing date of the announcement, Tuesday, April 3, 2012.

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

BETHESDA, MARYLAND

DEPUTY CHIEF, PUBLIC SERVICES DIVISION

The National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, is now recruiting for the position of Deputy Chief of its Public Services Division.. 

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is the world’s largest medical library and a major organizational component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is responsible for collecting, preserving, and promoting the dissemination of information important to the progress of medicine and public health, both nationally and internationally.

The successful candidate for this position will serve as Deputy Chief of the Public Services Division and participate fully with the Chief in directing and managing all activities of the Division.  This position is located within the Division of Library Operations (LO), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). 

PSD is looking for creative leadership in a variety of areas including oversight of digitization activities, web and social media, resource sharing, cooperative internal and external projects, and development of consumer health vocabularies.

This is a Supervisory Librarian, GS-1410-14, position with a salary range from $105,211 to $136,771 including locality pay per annum.          

NIH IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER