Assoc Director: Info Resources.2.02

2 days ago

Johannesburg, 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 or 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 or 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 co-operative
- Communication 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 and executing an operational plan and KPI's in support of the departmental strategy and the institution's overall vision and strategy
- Identify new business opportunities for accessing information resources using up to date information
- 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
- 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
- Lead the enhancement of research collections and develops new strategies that will identify new, innovative and productive partnerships and collaborations
- Develop and manage the Information Resources budget
- 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
- Available: as soon as possible

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