University Library Director

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Planning

• Develop implement and regularly assess a multiyear library strategic plan aligned with KCUs mission academic goals and institutional strategic initiatives.
• Lead the library in adopting emerging trends in medical librarianship instructional technology AIenhanced search and discovery digital collections data services and clinical information systems.
• Use data-driven assessment to improve services inform decision-making and demonstrate library impact.

Operations Administration & Budget

• Oversee day-to-day library operations ensuring effective inclusive and user-focused services across campuses.
• Prepare justify and manage the annual operating budget ensuring responsible fiscal stewardship and alignment with institutional priorities.
• Oversee collection development for print electronic archival and multimedia resources including licensing vendor relations and evidence-based acquisitions.
• Ensure compliance with accreditation standards related to library services and learning resources.

Staff Leadership & Development

• Recruit supervise mentor and evaluate library faculty and staff; foster a collaborative growth-oriented workplace culture.
• Support ongoing professional development encouraging engagement with emerging technologies evidence-based practice and trends in health sciences librarianship.

Teaching Research & Academic Support

• Lead the development of programs and policies supporting information literacy scholarly communication research support and data management.
• Partner with faculty to integrate library instruction evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills and information literacy across the curriculum.
• Support student faculty and clinical research by ensuring access to high-quality information resources and expert librarian guidance.

User Engagement Outreach & Communication

• Promote library services through effective communication marketing strategies and relationship-building across departments and campuses.
• Serve as a visible and trusted representative of the library within KCU and across professional networks.
• Ensure an inclusive welcoming environment for all users.

Other Responsibilities

• Participate in institutional committees university planning efforts and cross-unit collaborations.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support institutional priorities and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters degree in Library Science Information Science or related field from an ALA-accredited program.
• 57 years of progressive responsibility in an academic or health sciences library including supervisory and administrative experience.
• Expertise in collection development digital resource management information discovery instructional services and library technologies.
• Demonstrated understanding of medical education faculty needs student learning clinical practice and the information services that support them.
• Strong leadership communication consensus-building and project management skills.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies library systems and digital scholarship tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment while maintaining professionalism and a positive solutions-focused approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) certification additional masters degree (biological sciences preferred) or doctoral degree preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer

KCU is committed to promoting an equal employment opportunity workplace. Equal opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex age national origin genetic information (GINA) physical or mental disability pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status ancestry military and/or veteran status and/or any other status protected by applicable Federal state or local law.

Annual Security Report

KCU is committed to providing a safe campus for students faculty and staff. Our annual campus security report lists campus crimes and statistics for the campus and public areas around campus for the last three years in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

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