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About the Role
The Open Education Librarian leads the Libraries’ programs and services supporting the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources, tools, and practices. This role collaborates with colleagues, campus partners, faculty, and graduate students to develop high-impact, affordable course materials for learners.
Responsibilities
- Provides expertise and guidance for creating, adapting, and adopting open educational resources (OER), tools, technologies, and practices.
- Leads Libraries’ open education initiatives, including the Open Education Initiative program.
- Collaborates with library colleagues and campus partners to support OER and open pedagogy platforms and tools.
- Oversees the planning, delivery, and evaluation of open education events, workshops, training, and outreach.
- Collaborates with campus partners and student organizations to align open education initiatives with campus, state, and national directions.
- Collects, analyzes, assesses, and reports metrics on open education initiatives, programming, and tools.
- Aligns planning, priorities, goals, and services with the strategic initiatives of the Libraries and the University.
- Stays informed about key issues and trends in open education, open pedagogy, open scholarship, and related areas, incorporating this knowledge into planning and information sharing.
- Represents the Libraries at events to promote services.
- Serves on internal and external committees as assigned.
- Participates in professional development, continuing education, and scholarly associations, including presenting and publishing.
- May supervise student employees.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Graduate degree in librarianship (from a program accredited by the American Library Association) or related field by time of hire, or combination of an advanced degree in a relevant subject area and experience in libraries, archives, museums, or similar institutions.
- For Librarian II, minimum of 2 years of experience in an academic library, archives, museum, or similar institution.
- For Librarian III, minimum of 5 years of experience in and academic library, archives, museum, or similar institution.
- Experience providing library instruction and outreach programming in an academic library setting.
- Evidence of commitment to user-centered service to students and faculty in an academic institution contributing to student success.
- Participates in professional development, continuing education activities, professional and scholarly associations, and demonstrates potential for active contributions.
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, problem-solve, and demonstrate a commitment to inclusion, service excellence, innovation, and creativity.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain effective working relationships and work collaboratively in a diverse and fast-paced environment.
- Strong organizational, project, and time management skills to lead or coordinate multiple projects and work with minimal supervision.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
Skills
- Open educational resources (OER)
- Open pedagogy
- Open scholarship
- Scholarly publishing
- Information literacy
- Instructional design
- Learning support services
- Online and distance learning
- Open access
- Copyright/authors' rights
- Project management tools and/or techniques
- Academic publishing
- Editorial experience
Location
- Amherst
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Librarian I
- Librarian II
- Librarian III
Education Level
- Graduate degree in librarianship (from a program accredited by the American Library Association) or related field
- Advanced degree in a relevant subject area
Salary/Compensations
- $63,250 - $90,500
About the Company
- UMass Amherst Libraries