Assoc Director: Scholarly Comms.2.02

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa University of the Witwatersrand Full time

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
The person in this post reports to the University Librarian.

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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