Assoc Director: Info Resources.2.02

1 week 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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