From: Ricky Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:39:51 -0700

Please distribute the following AUL for Digital Initiatives and Information
Technology posting to all who may be interested.

The job posting is at the following link:
*https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01893
<https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01893>*

Thank you,
Ricky Brown
UC Berkeley Library

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*Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Information
Technology  *
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley
Salary based on qualifications
This is a full-time appointment available to start as soon as possible

The UC Berkeley Library is embarking on an ambitious new course to rapidly
expand our digital services — and we seek a dynamic leader to manage and
grow this initiative at one of the world’s most iconic teaching and
research institutions. The Associate University Librarian for Digital
Initiatives and Information Technology will lead the Library’s reimagined
and rapidly expanding Digital Lifecycle Program (DLP), the Library IT
department, and Interlibrary Services in support of the University of
California, Berkeley’s world-renowned culture of research and innovation.
The Library is looking for a leader with proven experience, bold ideas, and
the confidence and political acumen to execute them.

Accelerating the Digital Lifecycle Program is a tremendous opportunity for
the right visionary leader. With the addition of several new positions, new
equipment, a new space, a new digital assets management system, and a new
strategic vision, the DLP initiative is expected to advance the UC Berkeley
Library to a leading position among all U.S. research libraries.

In addition to leading the Digital Lifecycle Program, the AUL will oversee
the Library IT team, which provides Library-wide support and leadership for
data, computing, innovative technology spaces, interface design, and
infrastructure services following a user-centric, service-oriented
philosophy. S/he will also oversee the Interlibrary Services unit. The AUL
will lead planning for the delivery of digital information resources in a
highly diverse computing environment.

Joining an intensely collaborative team of Library leaders, the AUL will
help set the Library’s strategic goals, priorities, and policies, and
manage their execution by staff to serve the Library’s mission and achieve
its vision. The Leadership Team identifies and solves the most complex
operational and strategic problems that confront the Library. The AUL will
provide long-range planning and direction for the Library’s digital
strategies to support the Library’s new strategic vision (see:
ucberk.li/our-plan ).

The AUL’s portfolio encompasses both traditional and new systems and
services. The AUL will work closely with other Library leaders on a variety
of services that include building a network of support for innovative
digital scholarship, rapidly expanding digital collections, improving the
findability and usability of scholarly resources, ensuring long-term
preservation of digital materials, and influencing technology-rich spaces
and programs such as those of the Center for Connected Learning.

The AUL has a formal relationship with the Associate Vice Chancellor for
Information Technology (CIO) and the campus IT Leadership Group, and will
participate in the campus’s collaborative IT governance structure. The AUL
actively builds relationships with other research and technology partners —
including those that support research data management and data science — on
campus, within the California Digital Library, and across the other nine
University of California campuses.

*THE ENVIRONMENT*
The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s most iconic
teaching and research institutions. Since 1868 Berkeley has fueled a
perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic, and
social value in California, the United States, and the world. Berkeley’s
culture of openness, freedom, and acceptance — academic and artistic,
political, and cultural — make it a very special place for students,
faculty, and staff. Berkeley is committed to hiring and developing staff
who want to work in a high-performing culture that supports the outstanding
work of our faculty and students. Candidates are encouraged to read more
about the UC Berkeley culture at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/why-berkeley.html
.

In a highly-diverse and intellectually-rich environment, Berkeley serves a
campus community of over 30,000 undergraduate students, 11,000 graduate
students, and 1,500 faculty. The Library also serves the people of
California, and the world through lending to over 35 countries a year, and
making available a rapidly-growing archive of digitized special collections
materials (over 4 million items so far). The UC Berkeley Library has
contributed over 3 million digitized books to HathiTrust.

The Library comprises 25 campus libraries, with a collection of nearly 13
million circulating volumes, almost 1.5 million e-books, and subscriptions
to over 130,000 journals and periodicals. We have about 200 million items
in our special collections still to be digitized and manage close to 10
million files (200 TB) in our digital holdings, including rare materials
held by The Bancroft Library, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, the
Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, the Music Library,
and the Anthropology Library. The UC Berkeley Library actively partners
with the other nine UC campuses and the systemwide California Digital
Library. The Library manages the systemwide off-site Northern Regional
Library Facility (NRLF), which currently houses over 7 million items with a
3.1 million item  expansion scheduled to open in 2020. The Library has a
current operating budget of about $62 million with approximately 325
full-time employees and 600 student employees each year.

*RESPONSIBILITIES*
The AUL for Digital Initiatives will develop and lead Library initiatives
that rapidly increase the digitization of the Library’s collections,
enhance discovery, delivery, accessibility, and usability of resources
within and beyond our collections, and, together with the AUL for Scholarly
Resources, ensure preservation of our digitized collections. The AUL will
partner with fellow members of the Library’s Leadership Team, Library
staff, faculty, students, campus units, the California Digital Library, our
sister UC campuses, and others.

Reporting to the University Librarian, the AUL will:

*Lead and design support for the digital lifecycle program*
The Digital Lifecycle Program is one of the Library’s key strategic
initiatives and the Library is embarking upon a redesign and vast expansion
of its digital program. More broadly, the AUL provides campus-wide
leadership and serves as the primary spokesperson for the Library’s digital
strategies and services to faculty, students, and other Library patrons.
The AUL, collaboratively with the AUL for Scholarly Resources, designs,
develops, and sets best practices in areas such as digitization, digital
curation, digital preservation, metadata, and the design and development of
discovery services. The position will represent the UC Berkeley Library in
projects with the California Digital Library and other partner institutions
as we explore new ways to strengthen collaborative services and
co-investments of resources to support research, teaching, and learning.

It is expected that the AUL will have substantive knowledge of digital
assets and the technical infrastructure required for their lifecycle
management, including metadata requirements, migration strategies, best
practices in digital preservation, and relevant national and international
standards. The AUL must have knowledge of issues and trends related to
digital scholarship, discoverability, accessibility, and usability of
information resources.

*Lead and design support for current and emerging digital scholarship*
The AUL will provide leadership for Library services related to data and
digital scholarship across disciplines. The AUL will design and develop
best practices for areas and units in her/his portfolio, including IT
system requirements and priorities, and set Library-wide policy and
protocols related to technology support for the work of subject liaisons,
metadata, access, and technology specialists, and Library support personnel.

*Provide leadership for departments in collaboration with Library
leadership*
The AUL will supervise and lead the Digital Lifecycle Program, Library IT,
and Interlibrary Services, comprising 50 FTE in a variety of academic and
professional staff classifications including classifications represented by
collective bargaining units. In addition, due to the highly-matrixed nature
of our Library’s leadership, the AUL will also lead project teams that
include staff who report to other AULs and other units. The AUL will share
decision-making authority with the Library Leadership Team for personnel
actions, resource management of the Library’s budget, and development of
policies for all Library operations and services. In our team-led,
interconnected organization, the AUL will work closely with other members
of the Leadership Team on shared planning, prioritization, problem solving,
and vision for supporting Library staff, faculty, students, and campus
partners from a wide range of departments, disciplines, and specializations
.

*Minimum basic qualification at time of application:*

Advanced degree (Masters or PhD or equivalent international degree) by
application date

*Preferred qualifications:*

• Minimum of five years’ experience in academic research libraries or
archives leading, supervising, and/or directing academic, professional, and
technical library staff.
• Minimum of five years’ experience in positions of increasing
responsibility and leadership for current and emerging information
technology in academic libraries, including experience designing and/or
managing library systems, digital asset management systems, discovery
systems, and digitization services.
• Demonstrated capability to function as a collaborative leader and partner.
• Demonstrated strong commitment to user-centered services for all
constituencies.
• Superior analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, and communication
skills.
• Demonstrated project management and organizational skills, including
change management skills for an adaptive learning organization.
• Demonstrated effective fiscal management.
• Substantive knowledge of digital assets and the technical infrastructure
required for their lifecycle management, including metadata requirements,
migration strategies, best practices in digital preservation, and relevant
national and international standards.
• Demonstrated knowledge of policies, best practices, and strategies for
opening access to and use of digital assets and scholarly content.
• A strong commitment to equity and inclusion in supporting a diverse
workforce and serving the needs of a diverse population.
• Experience and success with fundraising and grant writing, and in
managing grant-funded projects.

The University has an excellent retirement system and sponsors a variety of
group health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans in addition to other
benefits. Associate University
Librarians are entitled to two days per month of vacation leave, and one
day per month of sick leave.

The Library at the University of California, Berkeley, is committed to the
support and encouragement of a multicultural environment and seeks
candidates who can make positive and imaginative contributions in a context
of ethnic and cultural diversity.

This associate university librarian position is covered by the UC Academic
Personnel Manual (APM).

This is a designated position requiring fingerprinting and a background
check due to the nature of the job responsibilities. Berkeley does hire
people with conviction histories and reviews
information received in the context of the job responsibilities. The
University reserves the right to make employment contingent upon successful
completion of the background check.

This recruitment will remain open until filled.

Berkeley has retained Isaacson, Miller, a higher education executive search
firm, to assist in this search.

Applicants should submit a resume; submittal of a cover letter is optional.

Submit applications online at: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01893

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age
or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California
nondiscrimination and affirmative action
policy see:

http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct

Inquiries:

Search Firm Contact:
Deborah Hodson [log in to unmask] and Brett Barbour [log in to unmask]
,
Isaacson, Miller, 1000 Sansome Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94111
University Library Contact:
Susan E. Wong, Director, Library Human Resources, [log in to unmask]
berkeley.edu


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*Ricky Brown*

*Administrative and Recruitment Assistant*

*110 Doe Library*

University of California, Berkeley

Phone: 510-664-7650