Team Leader for Processing and the Center for Primary Research and Training

Position Overview

Salary range: $68,885 - $108,349

Application Window

Open date: July 24, 2024

Next review date: Friday, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Friday, Oct 25, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position Description

Team Leader for Processing and the Center for Primary Research and Training

Department: Library Special Collections
Rank and Salary: Assistant Librarian - Librarian ($68,885 - $108,349)
Position Availability: Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: August 30, 2024

The UCLA Library seeks a creative and collaborative professional to lead its innovative user-centered and mentorship focused processing program.

The Processing/Center for Primary Research and Training Team Leader oversees the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) and Library Special Collections' processing program (LSC). The Lead collaborates across LSC and the Library to enhance, develop, and implement a flexible and iterative user-centered processing program that incorporates mentorship opportunities for students through the CFPRT. The CFPRT recruits UCLA students with subject and language expertise into a team-based approach to archival processing and provides them with valuable hands-on experience, training, and mentorship through archival and primary source theory and practice.

The Team Leader oversees a nimble processing team responsible for the arrangement and description of archival materials in all formats across LSC's collecting areas. The incumbent develops and supervises a team of professional processing staff and leads the daily work of undergraduate and graduate students to complete projects that enhance their academic experience and advance the goals of the department and the Library.

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

1. Develops and leads a team of professional processing staff and CFPRT scholars; overseeing work, providing feedback, and developing staff specializations as appropriate.
2. Collaborates with staff to create processing plans, determine appropriate levels of processing, set goals, establish timelines, and evaluate outcomes.
3. Identifies, develops, and applies strategies that facilitate an access-driven approach to the arrangement, description, and preservation of special collections materials across formats.
4. Collaborates to develop procedures and workflows and to set priorities that support an efficient, user-centered processing program.
5. Collaborates to develop techniques, training, and strategies that enable a sustainable approach to processing digital archives.
6. Reviews finding aids, catalog records for archival collections, and other descriptions to ensure quality and compliance with national and local standards and practices.
7. Works closely with other LSC staff to establish processing priorities and to increase processing capacity.
8. Works with campus and community partners to envision, plan, and carry out collaborative projects that ensure ethical and responsible description and processing.
9. Coordinates public programming and outreach activities featuring students and their work, and organizes relevant learning opportunities for the students.
10. Collaborates with Development and the LSC Director to identify priorities for philanthropic funding and on donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship; and participates in the development and execution of grant funded projects.
11. Contributes to outreach efforts such as events, exhibits, social media, and other programming.
12. Participates in departmental and library-wide committees.
13. Other responsibilities as assigned.

General Information

Professional librarians at UCLA are academic appointees. Librarians at UCLA are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council - American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). This is a represented position. They are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• ALA-accredited Master's Degree in Library or Information Science required at the time of hire; OR Master's degree (or other advanced degree) in Information Sciences or related field at the time of hire and work experience in a library setting.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience overseeing and reviewing processing staff work.
• Demonstrated experience applying efficient and iterative processing techniques in arranging, describing, and preserving archival collections of varying size and complexity, with consideration of holistic stewardship frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience processing digital archives.
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated experience applying library and archival standards and vocabularies, including EAD, MARC, DACS, RDA, and LCSH.
• Experience managing databases and archival content management systems, such as ArchivesSpace.
• Knowledge of preservation and conservation needs of and interventions for special collection materials and spaces.
• Understanding and ability to stay abreast of privacy, confidentiality, copyright and use policies associated with special collections materials.
• Demonstrated experience in generating reports to track and assess processing, user and community engagement, and curatorial goals and priorities.
• Ability to initiate and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, and managers, and to represent LSC in a professional manner to relevant constituencies.
• Strong project management skills, with an ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational skills, and time management skills.

Application Requirements

Document requirements

• Cover Letter - Describing qualifications and experience.
• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. detailing education and relevant experience.
• References - Names and contact information for three professional references, including current or previous supervisor; contact information only.
• Librarian EDI Statement - Statement of Contributions to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

Job Location

Los Angeles, California