Health Research Intelligence Librarian

Position Summary
This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement to include a partially remote work location consistent with System Office policy. UNC Chapel Hill employees are generally required to reside within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned duty station. The Health Research Intelligence Librarian works within the Health Research Intelligence unit of the Health Academic and Research Engagement department to generate strategic analytics that guide institutional and unit-level strategy. This work includes conducting research impact assessments analyzing and visualizing collaboration and research networks and performing topic or trend analyses using bibliometric and related data sources. The librarian consults with faculty research groups departments institutes and other campus units to address questions about impact and collaboration strengthen publication and output tracking and communicate research contributions to audiences such as funders administrators and promotion and tenure committees. The role also provides training and guidance on research metrics including responsible and contextualized use of bibliometric indicators. The librarian collaborates closely with related units across the University Library such as scholarly communications library data services and research information management teams to ensure alignment of research impact services and to support coordinated campus-wide research intelligence activities. Principal responsibilities include: * Conduct bibliometric and research impact analyses. * Prepare clear reports visualizations and narrative summaries. * Provide consultations for faculty students research groups departments and institutes on research impact publication tracking researcher profiles and responsible metrics. * Develop and maintain guides templates and training materials * Design and deliver workshops on bibliometric tools research impact methods and related data sources. * Contribute to workflow optimization projects using AI and automation. * Stay current with developments in bibliometrics research assessment responsible metrics research information management and analytics tools. * Document methods decisions workflows and quality assurance practices to ensure transparency reproducibility and continuity. * Participate in library campus and professional committees or communities of practice related to research impact analytics and library-based research support.

Required Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Masters degree from an ALA -accredited library/information science program or an advanced degree in a related field such as public health biomedical informatics or data science. One or more years of experience working in an academic library or research setting. Demonstrated experience conducting bibliometric or research impact analysis using publication citation or research administration data. Experience using Python or R for preparing cleaning and analyzing datasets for research impact or bibliometric purposes and applying automation to improve workflows. Experience producing data visualizations or analytic summaries for non-technical audiences. Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with varied user communities including students faculty researchers colleagues and community members. Excellent oral written analytical and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Experience with network analysis collaboration mapping or graph analytics (e.g. VOSviewer Gephi NetworkX). Experience creating dashboards or interactive visualizations using tools such as Tableau Power BI Plotly or Shiny. Experience working with research information management systems or publication data workflows including author disambiguation and affiliation/department mapping. Experience designing and delivering instruction or training materials such as workshops guides or consultations. Education or work experience in a health discipline. Experience applying AI or machine learning techniques to text metadata classification or data cleaning tasks. Experience using reproducible workflows including version control documentation and quality assurance checks. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple analytic projects in an academic library or research environment (evidenced through portfolio or project descriptions).