THE SEARCH
Rutgers University Libraries seeks a strategically minded, operationally sophisticated leader to be its Assistant Vice President for Collections and Digital Strategies (Assistant VP).
The Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) constitute a single university library system that serves Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (Rutgers). Rutgers comprises four distinct chancellor-led units: Rutgers University–New Brunswick, a member of the AAU, is the state land-grant institution and the largest campus, with more than 43,859 students and highly-ranked schools, departments, and doctoral programs. Rutgers University–Newark, with 11,008 students, boasts a diverse urban campus and deep curricular and co-curricular engagement with its city. Rutgers University–Camden serves 5,966 students and is noted for its small class sizes, focus on civic engagement, experiential learning, and cross-disciplinary doctoral programs. Rutgers Health (formerly Biomedical and Health Sciences, or RBHS), with campuses in Newark, New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Blackwood, is one of the nation’s largest academic health centers, preparing nearly 6,787 students for careers as physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other health professionals. It too is a member of the AAU.
RUL supports the work of faculty, students, researchers, and staff in all these locations. With 11 constitutive libraries, 181 library personnel (55 library faculty and 126 library staff), 4.8 million volumes (print and electronic), millions of other materials, over 750,000 square feet of library facilities, and an operating budget of $51 million, the Libraries support excellence in teaching, inspire discovery and research, and further community and cohesion. RUL is among the nation’s top research libraries and is ranked 37th in the ARL Investment Index (18th in total salaries and wages expenditures, 15th in total items loaned). About 63% of RUL personnel are directly serving chancellor led units, with the remainder focused on centralized management functions, such as coordination of the campus libraries, communications and marketing, human resources, information technology, and organizational learning.
The Assistant VP is a critical member of the central team, serving as the primary advocate and strategist for building, refining, and preserving collections and resources of all formats; strengthening and supporting collections and digital services infrastructure; and ensuring that RUL’s investments in collections and digital activities align with the University’s strategic priorities. Reporting directly to the Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian, the Assistant VP will work collaboratively with colleagues within RUL’s central administration and across the libraries, on the campuses of the chancellor-led units, and in external collaborative consortial settings.
TO APPLY
Confidential questions, nominations/referrals, and applications can be submitted electronically to:
Anita Tien, Partner and Andy Marshall, Managing Associate
Isaacson, Miller
Assistant Vice President for Collections and Digital Strategy
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of all pre-employment screenings.
It is university policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law. As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment on the basis of any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms and conditions of employment. For additional information please see the Non-Discrimination Statement at the following web address: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement
The Libraries are strongly and actively committed to diversity and seek candidates who will contribute creatively to the University’s multicultural environment.
