Join a vibrant academic community at The Claremont Colleges Library as the Associate Dean for Library Operations and Strategy, where your leadership will shape academic excellence across seven prestigious campuses. This is more than just a role; it’s an opportunity to make a lasting impact at the heart of a consortium dedicated to innovation, equity, and collaboration. As a key member of the senior leadership team, you’ll drive strategic initiatives, optimize operations, and foster partnerships that enhance the Library’s role as an essential hub for research, teaching, and student success. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of academic libraries in a dynamic, inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives and empowers you to lead with purpose.
Another Source’s client, The Claremont Colleges Library is recruiting an Associate Dean of Library Operations and Strategy to join their team on-site in Claremont, CA. This is a great opportunity to join the Library—the principal academic support unit of the highly respected Claremont Colleges Services--in a unique role that will make an impact across seven prestigious campuses.
Here’s a little about the Claremont Colleges and the position they are recruiting for:
The Claremont Colleges includes five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions: Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College and Keck Graduate Institute. Located on contiguous campuses in the Southern California city of Claremont, each institution has its own student body, faculty, governance, curricular emphasis, culture, and mission. Intercollegiate cooperation provides university-scale services and facilities.
The Claremont Colleges Library partners with faculty, students, and staff to provide content and services in support of all forms of intellectual engagement and inquiry across The Claremont Colleges consortium. We are focused on creating a dynamic, equitable and welcoming presence for our users, honoring the diverse voices–and varied lived experiences–of our community and constituencies. We have a strong regional and national presence as a member institution of the Oberlin Group of Libraries, the Greater Western Library Alliance, the Center for Research Libraries, the HathiTrust and SCELC.
Learn more about the The Claremont Colleges Library.
What you can expect to be doing:
As the Associate Dean for Library Operations and Strategy you will engage in a broad range of senior administrative leadership, strategic and management functions that support The Claremont Colleges Library: A vibrant, innovative and inclusive center for research, teaching, learning, and scholarship serving students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges (TCC) as part of The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS).
You will bring a deep understanding of the major challenges and trends facing academic libraries today, including rapid changes in: technology and scholarly communication; information literacy and instructional methodologies; collection management and the delivery of analog and digital information; data curation and digital scholarship; creative and efficient use of physical spaces; budget assessment and proof of ROI; issues of open access and diversity, equity, and inclusion; staff retention and succession planning; organizational theory and practice; and the academic library’s role as a campus partner and facilitator of student well-being. The position requires a capacity to thrive, communicate and respond effectively to the changing, and individual, needs of a unique consortium of five undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions.
You will have the opportunity to demonstrate managerial experience—including a leadership role in the management of financial, human, and physical resources in a complex academic or research library setting. Serving as a member of the Library’s senior Library Leadership Team (LLT) this position will need to demonstrate the ability to be a team collaborator and communicator throughout the organization. In addition, part of the position’s portfolio will be focused on working with the Dean on assessment of services to the Claremont Colleges community. You will oversee two direct reports, Library Building Coordinator and Library Technology Coordinator.
The anticipated yearly salary range for this position is: $135,000- 145,000 based on experience.
How you will be spending your time:
Functional Oversight
Library Operations Budget
Library Facilities, Technology and Access
Organizational Strategy and Assessment
Supervisory Responsibility
Required Qualifications:
What’s in it for you:
The Claremont Colleges offers a comprehensive benefits package for fulltime staff. Learn more about the benefits here: https://services.claremont.edu/benefits-administration/benefit-plan-information/
Notices
Disclaimer: This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this position. When duties and responsibilities change, The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS) will review this job description and make changes of business necessity. TCCS reserves the right to modify job duties or assign additional duties as needed.
ADA & OSHA: This job description defines the essential job duties of this position. TCCS expects that employees hired for this position can perform the essential functions of this job without imposing risk of substantial harm to the health or safety of themselves or others. It may also include marginal functions, generally defined within Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Equal Employment Opportunity and Non-Discrimination:
TCCS makes employment decisions on the basis of merit, with the aim of having the best available person in every job. TCCS prohibits discrimination based on all characteristics protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance or regulation. TCCS also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of these characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of these characteristics.
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