Hi everyone,

We are hiring! Please consider this opportunity to lead the UConn Library’s reimagined Digital Infrastructure Services unit. Deadline for applications is February 9.

Job ID: 494214
Title:     Head of Digital Infrastructure Services
Rank:    Assistant Computer Manager (UCP 10)
Area:     Library Administration

The UConn Library seeks a highly collaborative Head for the reimagined Digital Infrastructure Services (DIS) unit. The Head of Digital Infrastructure Services reports to the Associate Dean and will provide creative, collaborative, and forward-looking leadership for innovative technology services in the UConn Library. The successful candidate will proactively assess, develop, and manage technologies that support the University’s various communities of users. They will work with content and service experts to create an integrated information environment by developing and extending the Library’s technology resources in support of faculty and student teaching, learning, research, and scholarship.

Candidates must understand the broad landscape of trends in information technology and libraries, and must have a demonstrated track record of successful project management and implementation of technologies and services. The Head of DIS leads a unit poised for new growth that will focus on providing high-quality, robust, and interoperable systems that facilitate discovery, preservation, and the delivery of library services and resources to the entire University and, in some cases, to the State of Connecticut. This will include communicating and collaborating across stakeholders, contributing to digital strategies, and advancing collective capacities.  

A highly collaborative leader, the Head of DIS contributes to the development of a compelling vision for how digital technology can strengthen existing workflows for collections management; contribute to outstanding digital scholarship; support resource acquisition and discovery; expose scholarship through an outstanding repository platform; and promote the UConn Library programs, services, and expert staff through a state-of-the-art, user-centered, and accessible website aligned with University web standards.

The Head of DIS supervises three full time staff members and contributes to the advancement of the unit and the UConn Library through collaboration and engagement with Library-wide initiatives.  Along with all UConn Library personnel, the successful candidate makes a positive contribution to a culture of inclusion and respect in all interactions within the Library and across the University and exemplifies the UConn Library values of kindness and trust, curiosity and inquiry, equity and inclusion, and having fun.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Systems, or related field.
2. Minimum of five years’ professional experience working with library systems and digital library development with evidence of broad, in-depth technology and systems knowledge and skills.
3. Minimum of two continuous years demonstrated supervisory experience, including proven team success and progressive leadership and management responsibilities.
4. Demonstrated commitment to a data driven approach to continuous assessment and improvement of programs and services.
5. Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
6. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
7. Direct experience with integrated library systems and related search and discovery products (such as Ex Libris, Alma, Primo) and digital repositories (such as Fedora, Islandora) and demonstrated understanding of the ongoing development of such systems and of emerging library systems and digital preservation technologies.
8. Demonstrated knowledge of accessibility standards and current best practices in information delivery.
9. Evidence of ability to articulate a system perspective for a multi-library campus and effectively implement a collaboratively-developed vision for library technology in a research library environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Master’s Degree in Library Science, Computer Sciences, Information Technology or Systems, or related field.
2. Demonstrated experience with the implementation and maintenance of open source applications.
3. Minimum of two years’ experience working in WordPress environments.
4. Demonstrated success with project management.
5. Demonstrated working knowledge of Google Analytics.

TO APPLY

Please apply online at www.jobs.uconn.edu, Staff Positions, Search #494214. For full consideration, please submit a cover letter, detailed resume, and contact information for three professional references.

Nominations and inquiries should be sent in confidence to [log in to unmask]. To ensure full consideration, inquiries and applications should be submitted by February 9, 2020.

Employment of the successful candidate will be contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check. (Search # 494214).

This job posting is scheduled to be removed at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on February 9, 2020.

All employees are subject to adherence to the State Code of Ethics, which may be found at http://www.ct.gov/ethics/site/default.asp.

The University of Connecticut is committed to building and supporting a multicultural and diverse community of students, faculty and staff. The diversity of students, faculty and staff continues to increase, as does the number of honors students, valedictorians and salutatorians who consistently make UConn their top choice. More than 100 research centers and institutes serve the University’s teaching, research, diversity, and outreach missions, leading to UConn’s ranking as one of the nation’s top research universities. UConn’s faculty and staff are the critical link to fostering and expanding our vibrant, multicultural and diverse University community. As an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity employer, UConn encourages applications from women, veterans, people with disabilities and members of traditionally underrepresented populations.

 

Regards,

 

Michael Rodriguez
Collections Strategist

 

UConn Library
369 Fairfield Way, Unit 1005
Storrs, CT 06269-1005
Phone: 860-486-9325

lib.uconn.edu  

 

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