Director, Library Technology and Digital Strategies

Description

Emory Libraries seek a highly collaborative Director of Library Technology and Digital Strategies to provide leadership and direction for innovative services and technologies.  The Libraries strive for a flexible and dynamic environment that encourages user-centered technology enhancements. The successful candidate will have an inherent desire to develop, manage, and assess services designed to support the Emory University community of users. Candidates must understand the broad landscape of trends in information technology and libraries, and must have a demonstrated track record of successful project management and implementation of technologies and services.  The Libraries are developing a strong program of Core Systems and a Digital Library program.

The Director is a key member of the Emory Libraries’ administration with responsibility for a growing department focused on providing high-quality, robust systems that facilitate search, discovery, preservation, and the delivery of library services and resources to the entire Emory University campus.  The Director provides leadership and vision for the enhancement, extension, and integration of the Libraries’ technology and tools in support of faculty and student teaching, learning, research and scholarship. The Director collaborates with the technology team and the broader Libraries and Information Technology Services (LITS) organization to ensure a flexible, scalable, and sustainable technology infrastructure enabling library services, content management, applications support, repositories, web maintenance and development, and resources for innovation.  The Director is the primary technology strategist for the Emory Libraries and works collaboratively with all library directors and other directors/managers in the LITS organization. Reporting to the University Librarian, the Director serves as a Library Cabinet member, a member of the Libraries/IT Strategy Group, Software Engineering Governance Group, and is an ex-officio member of the Libraries Core Systems Governance Group.