Chico - California State University - Dean Meriam Library

 https://www.csuchico.edu/hr/_assets/documents/empl-mlib-dean-vcacancy-announcement.pdf

Salary

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position includes an attractive benefits/retirement package including 16 hours per month vacation plus holidays. 

Close Date

October 22, 2022

RESPONSIBILITIES

As chief academic and administrative officer for the Library, the Dean is responsible for the library's planning and implementation process in concert with divisional and university strategic plans and managing the full range of day-to-day operational functions and services of all Library departments. This includes developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure effective operations; ensuring compliance with contractual agreements; reviewing, approving, and monitoring expenditures and recommended budgets; providing leadership and managing the personnel activities of the library staff, including hiring, training, and evaluating the work of assigned staff in accordance with contractual agreements; and delivering programs for the benefit of students, staff, and faculty. In collaboration with the library community and others, the Dean shall develop and implement a forward-looking library mission and vision to grow its role and reach at Chico State and throughout the North State.

The Dean is accountable for ensuring that diversity, equity, and inclusion are integrally tied to all actions and decisions in areas of responsibility. The Dean will be a champion of cultivating a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable climate, and will develop and implement strategies to recruit and retain a more diverse student body, staff, and faculty. The Dean will be a dynamic leader who has the ability to consider issues and perspectives of multiple stakeholders and disciplines while working collegially and cooperatively by reaching across unit boundaries to form and advance positive and productive relationships.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

• Master of Library Science (MLS/MILS) degree from an American Library Association accredited program.
• A record of academic achievement that merits tenure with appointment at the rank of Full Librarian.
• Minimum of five years of academic administrative experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of higher education principles, practices, and procedures, and knowledge of trends in
• institutions of higher education and their impact on student-centered library services.
• Working knowledge of current library technologies, trends, and emerging areas of librarianship including
• expertise in assessing and developing library services, collections, copyright domain, and technology
• applications.
• Ability to actively promote and advance the library’s role in integrating information literacy and digital
• fluency skills into the curriculum.
• Demonstrated successful record of collegial/shared governance and leadership supporting faculty, staff,
• students, and the larger community.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and communicate a vision for the Library.
• Demonstrated ability to promote high-quality research, scholarship, service, and professional activities.
• Demonstrated ability to strategically and effectively develop, manage, and report on a complex annual
• budget of over $4.3 million.
• Demonstrated ability to advance the Library’s mission and vision, including the ability to develop
• partnerships with and secure external support for programs, facilities, and personnel.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity and the advancement of multicultural, international, and
• interdisciplinary programs.
• Demonstrated understanding of physical facilities and equipment needs within a Library environment.
• Demonstrated exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate and
• foster trust and respect through partnerships with fellow deans, faculty, staff, and campus administration.
• Demonstrated experience handling personnel matters effectively in accordance with Collective Bargaining
• Agreements (CBAs).
• Experience partnering with centers, museums, institutes, etc. in expanding opportunities and services.