Head of Assessment Librarian (RESC)

Description

Position Summary

The Head of Assessment will have a leadership role in planning, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive assessment program for Emory Libraries building on existing assessment infrastructure. This position will work collaboratively with leaders and staff across the organization to identify the Libraries' assessment data needs, to create a data-informed assessment strategy, and to support library-wide assessment efforts. The position reports to the Associate University Librarian of the Research, Engagement, and Scholarly Communications Division (RESC) and will manage two team members. The Assessment team includes the Assessment Coordinator supporting library, university, and accreditation reporting and a Collections Analyst supporting data analysis of library collections. The successful candidate will:

• Lead the team and the organization to collect and utilize qualitative and quantitative library data to determine next steps in assessment priorities that will support library and university goals, demonstrate impact on library users, and strengthen organizational performance (e.g the Assessment team will have a role in assessing progress on the Emory Libraries strategic goals.
• Identify data needs and analyze systems and services for continuous improvement.

Essential Responsibilities & Duties

 

      Assessment Team Responsibilities

1. Leads a team and collaborate with colleagues to plan, develop, implement, promote, and assess library services and resources. 

2. Spearheads the library survey of the Emory community, executed every three years, and work with leadership to communicate and act upon findings.

3. Collaborates with the Assessment Coordinator to collect data for annual reporting and operational statistics, as well as ensure proper reporting on statistics on library collections, expenditures, facilities, and services to external organizations (e.g., ARL, ACRL, IPEDS, ASERL) and for university data submissions. Analyzes activities and statistics and tracks institutional trends to facilitate comparison to national trends.  

4. Leads, coordinates, and guides the activities of the Assessment Integration Group, which has representation from across the Libraries.  

5. Communicates findings, datasets, and reports for internal and external audiences through presentations, dashboards, etc., as well as collaborates with the Libraries’ Campus and Community Relations (CCR) division to incorporate appropriate assessment data into library publications and other communication channels. 

6. Analyzes assessment data and presents information to senior library administration to help with decision-making. 

7.  Helps assess Emory Libraries’ engagement with the campus-wide strategic framework, One Emory: Ambition and Heart and the Provost’s major initiatives, such as Student Flourishing and AI.Humanity.  

8. Plans and implements training and professional development opportunities for librarians and staff on methods of assessment, including creating and maintaining assessment tools, aids, guides, webpages, and tutorials as needed. Increases institutional knowledge of best practices for assessment, including ethical considerations related to assessment. 

a.     Visualize Library data on a Fact and Figures dashboard.  

9. Manage and define the data elements, locations and people who report them, for Emory Libraries by by leading Emory’s LibPAS initiative, a secure data warehouse for library assessment data.  

10. Actively advance diversity, anti-racism, equity, and inclusion by engaging with the Emory community to ensure that a full range of voices and perspectives are sought, considered, protected, and respected in the assessment process.

11. Perform other duties related to assessment as needed to accomplish the goals of the department, division, and library.

12. Work closely with other library staff in areas of assigned responsibility and participate in library- wide and university-wide initiatives as appropriate.   

     Managerial Responsibilities

1. Serves as the department head for the Assessment team with programmatic responsibility for functional areas and direct supervision of two FTE paraprofessional staff members.

2. Serves as a member of the leadership team within the Research, Engagement, and ScholarlyCommunications Division.

3. Works with direct reports to coordinate recruitment, hiring, orientation, training, supervision, andevaluation employees. Coaches, mentors, and counsels both direct reports to develop staff in a positiveand proactive manner ensuring individuals have opportunities to develop broad knowledge of libraryoperations and service