Global Head of Digital Learning Resource

Please Note: This is a 100% Onsite role and requires 5 days work from office.

ROLE PURPOSE: This role is to coordinate amongst our Higher Education brands and brand librarians to identify digital learning resources required, then to coordinate with digital content providers to ensure we are correctly and efficiently contracted to provide resources to academics and students in a safe, secure manner with good student experiences.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads and promotes the groups digital repository and open access publishing services by managing digital content contracts and other local digital collection services as developed.
• Collaborating with liaison and specialist librarians to support for sharing scholarly outputs, including publications and research data.
• Serving as a resource to liaison librarians and other professionals in their work connecting faculty and students to digitized and born-digital objects held by the Library.
• Working with faculty and students to create new open access journal titles hosted at GEDU Library, in collaboration with liaison librarians and others in the Library.
• Working with members of the Communications team to promote the Library’s digital repository and open access publishing services to the campus community.
• Creating and working with an Open Access Working Group to provide leadership, expertise and support relating to open access.
• Developing methods to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of repository and open access publishing service.
• Provides leadership and guidance, and serves as a resource to library staff and the university community on digital repositories and scholarly communications services.
• Works closely with brand librarians to develop policies, manage change, set future directions, and resolve problems.
• Ensures timely communication, through appropriate media, of developments and projects; also communicates on any related events that have the potential to directly or indirectly impact normal services.
• Leads and coordinates projects with the primary goal being to ensure best possible service can be provided.
• Serves on Gedu Group, and as appropriate, external committees and groups, fostering collaboration, information sharing, partnership and expertise across campus and the broader community as required.
• Works with colleagues at other institutions in collaborative ventures.
• Actively participates on specialized teams or working groups to support the unique needs and strategic goals at GEDU.
• Participation in research projects and grant-funded projects.
• Provision of training as related to areas of subject expertise.
• Ongoing, proactive acquisition, maintenance, and provision of leadership in the development of associated skills and knowledge in areas of expected expertise.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Masters or PhD in Library Science or Equivalent.
• Experience with digital repositories and content management systems (e.g. Islandora, Drupal, Fedora Commons, DSpace, Dataverse).
• Project management experience with complex digital initiatives involving many stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently without direct supervision.

Knowledge / Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to independently, as well as collaboratively, plan, coordinate, and implement effective digital projects, including managing multiple and simultaneous projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of digital preservation standards and best practices.
• Proficiency with well-formed XML; strong, demonstrated facility with standards-based non-MARC metadata (e.g. Dublin Core); ability to investigate and learn new metadata standards as required.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively on projects across a wide range of departments and for varying audiences.
• A strong commitment to high quality service.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written.
• Knowledge of digital library, scholarly communications and research data management trends in academic libraries.

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