Associate Director, Data Management Program

Description

The University of California Davis Library is seeking an Associate Director to launch and lead a brand new Data Management Program. 

When you see a reference to a dataset, do you immediately start thinking about how to visualize it? Or how it might be accessed by other researchers and students? Do you want to help figure out how to model data schema for an entire research university? Come work with us!

The Data Management unit is a greenfield opportunity to build a team, situated within the library, that will develop cutting edge services for the UC Davis campus, with visibility extending across the entire University of California system. This unit will work closely with another new data unit dedicated to advance analysis and visualization, known as the Data Science Initiative. 

The Associate Director, Data Management Program develops, implements, and leads a program that enables the Library to contribute to the management and accessibility of the university’s research, including support of funding agency requirements. Develops, coordinates, delivers, promotes, and evaluates data management services. Data services includes consultation for faculty, students, and research personnel on a broad range of data use and management issues, including data description, discovery, citation and reuse, ownership and sharing, visualization, preservation, and archiving. The position leads and manages a small professional group of curators and GIS specialists.

This position reports to the Director, Online Strategy, and the salary range for this career appointment is $5,966.67 - $13,125.00 monthly.

UC Davis has been named one of the greenest campuses in America by the Sierra Club, and lies within easy commuting distance of the San Francisco Bay Area.

For additional details and information on how to submit an online application, please visit see www.employment.ucdavis.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=71478.

The position will remain open until filled.

UC Davis is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
UC Davis is a smoke and tobacco free campus effective July 1, 2014