Qualifications And Required Skills
- B.Bibl, BInf degree or Bachelors 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
- Masters degree in Library and Information Science (LIS), with 5 years in an academic or research library of which 2 years should be in management
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
- 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
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 utilizing 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 librarys support for ORCiD, 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
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