Associate Director for Library Services, The Harry Ransom Center
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The Associate Director for Library Services provides strategic leadership and portfolio direction across physical and digital library services. The role sets long-term priorities, oversees programs across seven units, and guides resource planning, stewardship, risk management, and sustainability. It leads unit Heads, contributes to institution-wide strategy, and represents library services in partnerships and professional networks.
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Strategic leadership and portfolio directionEstablishes the vision and long-term strategy for library services across physical and digital environments.Defines department-wide and portfolio-level priorities and outcomes in alignment with the Ransom Centers strategic plan.Ensures that collection stewardship, access, and service models reflect best practices in archives, libraries, and special collections.Leads the development of multi-year roadmaps for each unit.Program and portfolio oversightDetermines the portfolio of programs and initiatives across the seven units, including which initiatives are launched, continued, paused, or concluded.Ensures alignment and coordination across units.Establishes success measures and performance indicators for the overall portfolio.Monitors progress toward strategic outcomes and addresses portfolio-level risks and dependencies.Organizational capacity and resource strategyLeads staffing and capacity planning for the library services portfolio in partnership with the Executive Director and senior leadership teamMakes resource and investment recommendations related to staffing models, skills development, tools, infrastructure, and facilities.Ensures that resources are aligned with the Ransom Centers highest priorities.Stewardship, risk, and sustainabilityOversees institutional risk related to library services.Ensures appropriate policies and frameworks are in place for collection stewardship, access, and use.Leads long-term planning for all units.Leadership of unit HeadsProvides strategic direction, coaching, and performance leadership to the Heads of units.Reviews and approves division-level program plans and annual priorities.Supports Heads in translating strategy into executable programs while maintaining clear accountability boundaries between strategy and delivery.Institutional and cross-divisional leadershipServes as a senior member of the organizations leadership team and contributes to institution-wide strategy and planning.Leads cross-divisional initiatives that intersect with library services.Represents library services in internal and external partnerships, professional networks, and institutional collaborations.
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