[Rdap] Position Announcement: Director, Research and Informatics at Virginia Tech Libraries

Julie Speer jspeer at vt.edu
Tue Sep 30 17:03:58 EDT 2014


Apologies for multiple postings...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Director, Research and Informatics reports to the Associate Dean for
Research and Informatics and manages operations for library programs,
services, educational opportunities, and campus collaborations that support
the research mission of the university. As a member of the Libraries’
senior leadership team, the Director, Research and Informatics contributes
to library-wide planning and policy making and helps to shape strategic
directions for the Libraries.

The division of Research and Informatics includes scholarly communication,
data curation, and technology development units that oversee consulting,
instruction, digital services, and digital library development activities
in support of the university’s intellectual contributions and research
processes. Strategic priorities for the division emphasize research
environmental assessment, embedding digital curation processes in research
environments, and providing leading digital curation and preservation
solutions for the campus community.

*Responsibilities include:*

   - Directs, manages, and assesses selected research and informatics
   programs and services
   - Fosters positive communications and effective working relationships
   between research and informatics faculty, staff, students, and campus
   partners
   - Coordinates research service activities that include consulting in
   informatics, digital curation, and preservation
   - Leads collaborative development of policies and processes that
   continuously develop and refine digital curation of library stewarded
   collections
   - Leads the evaluation and adoption of new research and digital curation
   tools and approaches
   - Develops and recommends action on memoranda of understanding and
   service level agreements
   - Coordinates with library personnel on public relations and marketing
   activities and to further develop and refine the web presentation of
   research and informatics programs and services
   - Supervises selected research and informatics library faculty and staff
   - Leads teams, projects, and meetings
   - Possibility of serving as the library liaison to the department of
   computer science, developing collections and providing research
   consultations

*QUALIFICATIONS:*

*Required:*

   - Master’s or other advanced degree
   - Three years of progressively responsible management and supervisory
   experience in library or information-related services
   - Knowledge of trends in scholarly communication practices and
   information and data sharing policies; knowledge of trends in research
   administration in higher education
   - Experience with technology management and research consultations
   - Demonstrated capacity to direct research services and activities in an
   academic library
   - Ability to successfully supervise, train, and mentor research and
   informatics faculty and staff; demonstrated leadership qualities to be an
   effective director and member of the Libraries senior leadership team
   - Knowledge of digital curation processes and digital repository and
   publishing platforms
   - Successful experience leading and working with diverse teams across
   departments and disciplines
   - Demonstrated ability to handle multiple complex projects simultaneously
   - Excellent analytical, interpersonal, oral, and written communication
   skills

*Preferred:*

   - Master’s degree or other advanced degree with an emphasis in
   information science, informatics, or computing
   - Professional experience working in an academic library
   - Experience managing or directing research services and activities in
   an academic library
   - Successful teaching experience
   - Successful grant proposal development
   - Successful experience supervising librarians
   - Evidence of creativity or creative solutions in transforming libraries
   in the digital age
   - Experience with campus-wide projects and planning
   - Evidence of professional accomplishments, publications, and experience
   appropriate for continued appointment in the library faculty

*Salary:* $70,000 - $80,000 (Commensurate with credentials and experience).

*Rank:* Administrative and Professional Faculty with Continued
Appointment/Tenure rank.

*Benefits:* University benefit information can be located at
www.hr.vt.edu/benefits/index.html.

*HOW TO APPLY:* Applications must be submitted online at www.jobs.vt.edu,
posting AP0140225. The application package needs to include a resume, cover
letter addressing the candidate’s experience with the responsibilities
associated with the position, and the required and preferred
qualifications, names of three (3) references and their contact
information. Review of applications will begin as received and continue
until the position is filled.

*Virginia Tech has a strong commitment to the principle of diversity, and
in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women,
minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities. Individuals with
disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should
notify the hiring department by the application deadline.*
  Apply for this job <http://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/51705>

-- 
Julie G. Speer
Associate Dean for Research and Informatics
University Libraries
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
t: 540-231-7193
f: 540-231-7808
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kunverj.com/pipermail/rdap/attachments/20140930/d0f9cc67/attachment.html>


More information about the RDAP mailing list