Your responsibilities

Are you passionate about developing innovative experiences for visitors?

Join the CERN Exhibition team as an Exhibition Developer!

CERN has an opening for an Experienced Project Graduate in the Exhibitions (EXH) section in the Education, Communications and Outreach (ECO) group in the International Relations (IR) sector.

The post offers an exciting opportunity to develop content for multiple projects including new visit itineraries, a redesign of CERN's travelling exhibition, and exhibitions marking CERN's 70th anniversary.

CERN's exhibition team (IR-ECO-EXH) curates three permanent exhibitions at Science Gateway, taking visitors behind the scenes at CERN and telling the story of our universe, with hands-on experimentation for ages 8 and up. The team also develops exhibits for guided visit itineraries at 10 locations across the CERN site and also CERN's travelling exhibitions.

The team is the focal point for exchanges with external museums working on CERN-related content, and regularly offers objects for loan from CERN's Heritage Collection.

Sustainability is built into the tendering process for all new projects, and accessibility is at the heart of what we do.

As a member of CERN's Exhibitions team, you will carry out the following tasks:

• Develop creative content for CERN's exhibitions: researching stories through interaction with the scientific community;
• Contribute to the conception, prototyping, testing and production of exhibits for integration throughout CERN exhibition spaces, participate in evaluation of exhibit content with relevant audience groups;
• Write texts for the interactive labels, objects, multimedia, and hands-on experiments;
• Prepare design and build specifications for tendering and coordinate supply for the creation of new exhibition spaces;
• Collaborate with other science centres across member states on CERN-related exhibitions;
• Document and collect objects for CERN's Heritage collection.

More information at: https://visit.cern/exhibitions

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Experience in Museum Studies, science communication or relevant scientific field, or experience working in a science centre;
• Excellent command of English or French, especially in writing and editing. Good knowledge of the other language (both spoken and written) or the undertaking to acquire it rapidly;
• An initial physics degree would be an advantage. 

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Museum Studies, Science Comm, STEM (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Job closing date: 10 August 2023 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: IR-ECO-EXH-2023-49-GRAP

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-October-2023

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6194 and 6808 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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