Senior Grant Program Specialist, National Digital Platform 
United States Institute of Museum and Library Services
Washington, D.C.

This is the position of Senior Grant Program Specialist with responsibility
for priorities within the national digital platform portfolio development
within the Office of Library Services and common applications across the
agency. Incumbent provides expert advice on significant
aspects of digital infrastructure, services and policy matters, including
issues relating to research, practice, and professional
education.

  
This includes advising program staff and others on related issues and
developments that affect libraries and archives. S/he represents the agency to
external constituents, especially libraries, archives, and higher education
institutions of library and information science, on issues relating to a
national digital platform related to scholarly communications, digital
humanities, arts and sciences, open access publishing and digital
scholarship. This includes attending meetings and making
presentations about relevant IMLS grants and grant programs including grants
for research, practice, and professional education; advising prospective and
current IMLS grantees and promoting the role of libraries and archives in
providing broad access to digital services and resources.
One in this position serves in the capacity of an expert team member,
providing expertise in national digital platform matters in general and in the
assigned grant priorities in particular.

  
The incumbent serves as a technical advisor for the Office of Library Services
in providing leadership in performing or directing advisory and project-
oriented assignments, the effect of which is to impact the core program(s) and
administrative operations throughout OLS and the success of the agency's
mission. The incumbent has a wide range of existing
contacts who work on digital library matters in libraries, and deep knowledge
of the existing professional field including relevant initiatives, people and
developing areas of interest. One cultivates contacts with representatives of
the institutions affected by the National Leadership Grants for Libraries and
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian programs, including but not limited to
building a network of relationships that attracts grant applications to
address the full range of funding opportunities in the program, recruiting
professionals with specialized expertise to review grant applications across
the range of funding opportunities in the program, and advising on agency
programs.



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