Manager Geomaths Library.1.03 at University of the Witwatersrand

Brief Description        
Qualifications and Required Skills:

• B.Bibl, BInf degree or Bachelor’s Degree plus Postgraduate Diploma in LIS and/or Honours in LIS (Library and Information Science), with 6 years in an academic or research library of which 3 years should be in management.

OR

• Master’s degree in Library and Information Science (LIS), with 5 years in an academic or research library of which 2 years should be in management.
• The person in this post reports to the Associate Director: Research and Learning Services

Skills:

• Subject knowledge
• Information sources in various formats
• Building information retrieval strategies
• Research process and methodology
• Information organisation methods/packages/tools
• Interpersonal skills
• Negotiation skills
• Emotional intelligence
• Communication skills across cultural borders
• Conflict management skills
• Stakeholder engagement

Technical Competencies:

• Relevant information technology (software and hardware)
• Marketing methods/procedures
• Administration systems, policies and processes
• Legal (copyright) requirement with regard to information distribution and information media
• Marketing skills
• Financial management skills
• Project Management skills
• Facilitation and presentation kills
• Spaces management
• Assets management
• Risk management
• Microsoft applications and digital literacy skills
• Scholarly communications advocacy skills

Recommendation:

• It is highly recommended that interested candidates be registered members of the professional body: Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA)

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership to advance research, education and innovation in the faculty library
• Customise the Library services’ strategies for client groupings for current and future developments
• Provide input with regard to tactical and strategic decisions
• Interpret developments within faculties and communicates to the DLS’ strategic plan
• Create and execute strategies that are intended to achieve established goals in an effort to satisfy key organisational goals
• Collaborate with other library stakeholders to ensure that faculties are provided with seamless services
• Enhance and assess the quality of the user experience of the library
• Provide professional leadership and manage the faculty library according to relevant policies and procedures
• Establish direction and clear vision for the faculty library
• Manage staff, resources and services in branches and/or faculty libraries
• Ensure the provision of training for users, both student and academic staff in subject specialities of faculties by utilising the most appropriate methods and technologies
• Provide Faculty support and engagement by ensuring effective communication between the Faculty library and all relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Manage all budgets for the faculty library as well as other related funding
• Notice where the library environment can be improved and make suggestions for improvements accordingly
• Plan, support, participate in the marketing events of the DLS and faculty libraries
• Responsible for Human Resource Management activities for all reporting staff e.g. approval of leave, performance management, training, job descriptions as contracted
• Establish communication channels in faculties for input about information resource management and collection development
• Contribute to the digital curation of archives and special collections materials at the faculty level
• Contribute to the library’s support for ORCiD drive, with a focus on increasing adoption and integration into campus and research support systems.
• Contribute to services in support of research metrics and publication analysis.
• Support, design and deliver instructional workshops and educational materials to increase understanding of open licensing, copyright, and the publishing process
• Management of Technical Services interface.
• Implement the collection development policy.
• Available: As soon as possible