Director of Learning Initiatives

The River Campus Libraries (RCL) of University of Rochester (UR) seeks a creative, collaborative, and forward-looking leader to direct the dynamic portfolio of Learning Initiatives. Reporting to the Assistant Dean level, the incumbent is a member of the Leadership Team and has an organization-wide scope. The Director leads a highly-talented and increasingly diverse professional team of primarily humanities and social science librarians (a team of approximately 9) but also collaborates with and drives learning initiatives among instructional partners across RCL. The incumbent brings, and imparts to the team, a passion to understand and creatively address the needs of all those involved in UR’s entire life cycle of learning-to-research (undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students, faculty, and those designing the learning platforms/environments and materials). They will ensure that RCL’s teaching and learning programs, projects, and spaces are agile, flexible, sustainable, welcoming, and grounded in rich insights of faculty, researcher, and student academic needs. In close collaboration with RCL and UR colleagues, the Director designs and implements enriching teaching and learning programs and activities that engage the UR community to deepen support for user learning and research that enhance the university’s profile and reputation. Areas of responsibility include: setting and implementing a forward-thinking and high-impact strategy for infusing current, emerging, and inclusive pedagogies into UR’s teaching and learning landscape that engage users in a blend of information, data, and digital literacies; identifying, guiding, and championing opportunities for collaborative teaching across RCL departments, on campus, and in the greater community; working with the portfolio’s Assistant Dean to scale experiential learning programs across the UR Libraries; serving as a key partner to Leadership Team peers to enhance and support a cohesive learning and service-delivery model across RCL; devising a system of continuous assessment that tracks both quantitative and qualitative impact within teaching, learning, and research; and contributing toward a departmental, portfolio, and library-wide culture of care, well-being, belonging, collaboration, communication, creativity, and innovation.

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