"Head of Teaching, Research, & Outreach for the Marriott Library (Associate or Full Librarian)"

Are you interested in a leadership role that offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of teaching, research, and outreach? The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah seeks a Head of Teaching, Research, & Outreach to lead engagement with the academic programs serving 12 colleges and schools and related disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs across the University of Utah. The ideal candidate will be a pragmatic leader committed to building partnerships, enhancing academic and community engagement, and conducting needs assessments to understand the research, teaching, and learning needs to support the research enterprise and student success initiatives. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication, the position provides leadership for teaching, academic and community engagement, collection building, research support, and student success. As a member of the Dean's Cabinet, the position contributes to divisional and library-wide planning and assessment, and collaborates with peers internally and externally.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads the Teaching, Research, and Outreach unit, ensuring collaboration, active engagement, and alignment of library liaisons within supported academic and research communities.
• Manages, mentors, and develops 13 liaison library faculty. Continually assess and enhance the liaison support model, ensuring liaison portfolios are balanced, strategically aligned, and responsive to the college's needs.
• Works with academic and research communities, department heads, and liaisons to understand teaching and research needs to design educational programs and identify new or expanded collections opportunities.
• Collaborates with liaison librarians, users, and the Collections & Resource Description unit to prioritize information resource acquisitions and support collection management projects as necessary. Monitors scholarly communication trends, consults researchers, and provides support for campus-level initiatives.
• Works with functional specialists and library faculty providing support for the research infrastructure (for example, research data management and systematic reviews) to find points of collaboration to better support academic and research communities.

Required Qualifications:

• ALA-accredited MLS/MLIS or equivalent
• Strong management skills, including experience successfully mentoring, training, coaching, inspiring, and evaluating performance
• Experience delivering library instruction, integrating technology, providing research support, and developing partnerships
• A record of cultivating strong relationships and building consensus within teams
• Demonstrated ability to manage change effectively at both the operational and personnel level
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with assessment tools and strategies
• Knowledge of trends and issues in scholarly communications