Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners is hiring : Open Education Librarian

Open Education Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst)

The Open Education Librarian provides innovative and high-quality programming and services at UMass Amherst. Housed in the division of Data, Digital Strategies, & Scholarly Communication, the Open Education Librarian leads the Libraries’ programs and services supporting the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources, tools, and practices.

Essential Functions

• Provides expertise and guidance across the institution for creating, adapting, and adopting open educational resources (OER), tools, technologies, and practices.
• Leads Libraries’ open education initiatives, including, but not limited to, the Open Education Initiative program.
• Collaborates with library colleagues and campus partners to assess, implement, and maintain platforms and tools that support the creation and use of OER and open pedagogy.
• Oversees the planning, delivery, and evaluation of open education events, workshops, training opportunities, and other outreach internally for library colleagues, across the campus, and with local and regional organizations.
• Collaborates with campus partners and student organizations to strategically align the Libraries’ open education initiatives with campus, state, and national directions in open education.
• Collaborates with library colleagues and campus partners to collect, analyze, assess and report metrics on the Libraries and campus open education initiatives, programming, and tools.
• Aligns planning, priorities, goals, and services with the strategic initiatives of the Libraries and the University.
• Keeps apprised of key issues and trends in open education, open pedagogy, open scholarship and scholarly publishing, information literacy, instructional design, learning support services, online and distance learning, open access, and copyright / authors’ rights.
• Represents the Libraries at specific library or university events to promote Libraries’ services.
• Serves on internal committees as assigned and may be asked to represent the Libraries on campus committees, Five College Committees, and Boston Library Consortium Committees, and / or at other selected professional meetings and conferences.
• Participates in professional development and continuing education activities, including service in professional and scholarly associations, and presenting and publishing on work-related topics.
• Works a flexible schedule, which includes some evening, weekend, and holiday hours.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or required to meet the goals of the department, Libraries, and University.
• May supervise student employees.

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

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