Assoc Director: Scholarly Comms.2.02
2 weeks ago
Qualifications and Required Skills:
- Master's degree in LIS and registration with LIASA as a professional body. A minimum 10 years relevant academic or research library work experience as well as a minimum of 5 years in a senior management role
OR
- Relevant Doctoral degree and registration with LIASA as a professional body. A minimum 8 years relevant academic or research library work experience as well as a minimum of 5 years in a senior management role
Skills:
- Leadership and decision making
- Creativity and conceptualising thinks broadly and strategically
- Adaptability
- Supportive and cooperative
- Communicaiton and networking skills
- Enterprising skills
- Organisational and executing skills
- Analytical and interpreting skills
- Liaison skills with all professional and support departments as well as internal and external stakeholders
Technical competencies:
- Technologically savvy
- Corporate governance
- Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) regulations and other relevant legislation
- Management principles, methodologies and tools
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills
- Acute business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges
- Project management approaches, tools and phases of the project life cycle
- Policy development and implementation
- Knowledge and understanding of the library business (including library systems)
Responsibilities:
- Strategic direction and alignment
- Developing an operational plan and KPI's in support of the departmental strategy and the institution's overall vision and strategy
- Driving and directing the development of the directorate's operational plans and objectives in line with departmental strategy, plans and objectives and in accordance with relevant legislation
- Providing tactical and operational leadership regarding all operations of the directorate from an overall perspective
- Library systems management
- Exploring/researching new opportunities for the enhancement of current library systems
- Managing mobile or digital access for library eresources
- Provide vision and direction to the development, implementation and management of strategic library initiatives, resources, services, policies and procedures in supporting and enhancing University research output
- Champion the promotion of the library's role in the scholarly communication reform process, and maximise access to scholarship in compliance with copyright law
- Guide the deployment of innovative library research support services to the University community and research management entities
- Provide leadership regarding all the operations of the directorate from an overall perspective
- Forecasting, budgeting and financial management, which includes managing the directorate's resources efficiently, effectively, economically and in accordance with the relevant principles and policies of Wits
- Ensuring and monitoring that all staff in the directorate are orientated to the organisation, trained, skilled, retained and that their expertise is optimally applied
- Ensuring a high performance culture in the directorate
- Governance and reporting
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