Manager, Digital Services
Florida Virtual Campus
Gainesville, Florida

 ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION:

The Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) is a statewide academic support. As a joint
service of the Florida College System and the State University System, FLVC
supports the distance learning, degree completion, and research needs of the
students, faculty, and staff of Florida's public colleges and universities.
FLVC has office locations in Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Tampa. FLVC
contracts with the University of Florida to provide its employees eligibility
to participate in the benefit programs offered by both the University of
Florida and the State of Florida. For more information on FLVC, visit
https://www.flvc.org.

  
POSITION SUMMARY:

This position reports to the Director of Library Services of the Florida
Virtual Campus (FLVC) and leads the Digital Services
workgroup. This position is located at the Gainesville
office. The primary responsibilities for this position
include managing the Digital Services workgroup, which helps the libraries of
the public university and college systems of Florida create, manage, maintain
and preserve digital information resources.

  
The Digital Services workgroup:

• provides applications to support digital special collections and archives,
electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), archival finding aids (EADs),
electronic journals, and/or other born-digital and retrospectively digitized
materials;

• runs the Florida Digital Archive, a long-term preservation repository for
digital materials;

• provides training, documentation, and technical support for these
applications, and works with CSUL MCLS committees as appropriate to ensure the
needs of the libraries are met;

• manages statewide resources, including Florida on Florida.

  
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Provides direction and oversight for the staff of the Digital Services
workgroup. Works in conjunction with the Director of
Library Services to plan, develop and direct the work of this group. Ensure
that staff has the training and resources they need to provide current and
prospective services to the libraries in the areas of digital content
management and digital preservation. Set strategic
directions and prioritize work among many competing
demands. Help staff develop goals and objectives, and
monitor their completion. (25%)

2. Provides leadership and coordination for planning, implementing, and
training for the adoption and integration of new digital technologies and
standards. (20%)

3. Provide project management for large and medium-scale development and
implementation projects. Ensure project-wide communication
and coordination. (15%)

4. Plans, develops, recommends and implements effective technological
responses; conducts technology research and identifies solutions to existing
technical issues; analyses data, processes and procedures relevant to library
customer service and operations to ensure the delivery of high-quality,
customer focused digital services; assists in ensuring the Library's digital
services appropriately meet the needs of the community. (15%)

5. Keep abreast of regional and national trends and initiatives related to
technology for digital library services to students and
faculty. Evaluate new technologies and applications for
possible use by libraries, and evaluate the feasibility of providing new
services requested by the libraries. Identifies innovative
and effective approaches and solutions to system and service needs. (10%)

6. Seeks mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations with appropriate
partners in the digital library domain. Engages in national and consortia
efforts in the digital library domain. Contributes to
developments in the field of digital librarianship through active professional
engagement, research, presentation, and publishing in appropriate venues. (5%)

7. Performs work in support of business processes and projects. Performs time-
sensitive tasks and meets established deadlines; maintains effective
communications with appropriate FLVC staff; maintains effective working
relationships to ensure the success of the business processes and projects.
Utilization of troubleshooting and diagnostic skills. Oversees/leads project
teams as required. (5%)

8. Other duties as assigned. (5%)

  
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization; or a bachelor's
degree an appropriate area of specialization and two years of appropriate
experience.

  
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• ALA-
accredited (or foreign equivalent) master's in library or
information science and/or advanced or other terminal degree;

• Minimum of five
years of professional experience in digital initiatives, digital collections,
or direct experience in digital publishing;

• Experience managing
the day-to-day work of technical staff in digital services

• Demonstrated
experience of digital library/archives metadata standards and technologies

• Experience working
with an institutional repository platform/software (e.g. Fedora Commons,
DSpace, Eprints, Digital Commons, Islandora);

• Significant
experience of digital standards and best practices for digital capture,
scanning, metadata creation, digital preservation, and copyright
laws.

  
Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Strong oral and
written communication skills

• Outstanding
analytical, organizational, project and time management skills

• Ability to set
priorities, meet deadlines, and complete tasks and projects on-time and within
budget by leveraging demonstrated creative and innovative problem-solving
skills;

• Knowledge of
current metadata schemas and standards such as MODS, MARC, METS, and Dublin
Core including demonstrated competence with XML, and understanding of metadata
principles and practices such as those found in AACR2, RDA, and other emerging
metadata schemes;

• Demonstrated
knowledge of digital initiatives and scholarly communication issues in
academic libraries including the issues surrounding collecting, hosting and
preserving born-digital material.

• Working knowledge
of Linux

• Working knowledge
of programming (Ruby, Solr, Java, PHP)

  
SALARY RANGE:

Minimum starting salary range is $65,000 to $75,000, commensurate with
training and experience.

  
CLOSING DATE:

10/20/14 (11:59 p.m.)

  
HOW TO APPLY:

Navigate to https://jobs.ufl.edu/. Create an account and
complete the online application form. Requisition #0906625
(Position #00029255). Directly apply for
this position at https://jobs.ufl.edu/postings/57906.



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