Director, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Research, Teaching, and User Services, the Director for the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship (NFCDS) leads a broadly interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and student workers, and manages the NFCDS strategic direction, service portfolio, and operations. The Center Director strengthens the role of the Hesburgh Libraries as a support hub and partner for literacies and fluencies in digital scholarship areas such as data use and visualization, digital humanities, media archaeology, research data management, immersive technologies, digital ethics, and other computationally engaged research and teaching methods and tools. The Director manages the Center budget, builds relationships across campus, and represents the University, the Libraries, and the Center externally through a broad network and a public presence at conferences and across the global digital scholarship community.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership for the development and maintenance of the Center’s portfolio of digital scholarship services, programming, technologies, and spaces
• Provides supervision and mentorship, and fosters collegial teamwork for a team of faculty and staff, postdoctoral associates, and student workers
• Manages the NFCDS operations budget
• Provides leadership for the prioritization of, and training in, digital scholarship tools, methods, and practices within the Libraries
• Alongside the NFCDS team, instructs digital scholarship workshops
• Integrates Center goals and activities into the overall services and strategic directions of the Hesburgh Libraries
• Represents NFCDS priorities within the organization, including as part of the Libraries’ leadership tier
• Collaborates broadly across the Hesburgh Libraries, especially with the Research Services and Scholarly Communications department 
• Builds and maintains strategic partnerships and collaboration within the Libraries, with other campus constituencies (such as the Digital Humanities Steering Committee, the Center for Social Science Research, the Center for Research Computing, the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, the IBM Technology Ethics Center, the Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies Program, the John J. Reilly Center, the Office of Digital Learning, and the Data Science Master’s program, OIT Academic Technologies), and with external peers
• Engages with and contributes to national conversations and communities relating to digital scholarship, maintains strong knowledge of current trends

About the Center Launched in 2013, the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship provides digital scholarship expertise to faculty and students across disciplines via outreach, instruction, collaboration, and research consultation and support. Endowed with a $10 million gift by the Marilyn & Rudolph M. Navari Charitable Foundation, the Navari Family CDS occupies an 8000 square foot facility within the flagship library of the University of Notre Dame. The Navari Family CDS offers access to specialized technologies and technology-enriched spaces, including a legacy technology collection, computer stations with specialized software, 3d printing consultations, virtual reality equipment, and a visualization studio. With established partnerships campus-wide, the Navari Family CDS serves as a hub that enhances the teaching, learning, and research processes across academic disciplines.    Salary and Benefits: Faculty appointment, salary, and rank are nationally competitive with peer Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members and commensurate with experience and qualifications, with a minimum starting salary of $72,000 commensurate with qualifications and experience.  Per the University’s Academic Articles, librarians at Hesburgh Libraries qualify for non-tenure library faculty appointments.  Candidates may learn more about Library faculty status through the University’s “Academic Articles” and the Hesburgh Libraries’ information circular “Criteria for Library Faculty Appointment and Promotion”. Both documents are available in the “Library Faculty Positions” section of Hesburgh Libraries’ Employment Opportunities web page, at https://www.library.nd.edu/employment/ In addition, the University of Notre Dame offers an outstanding benefits package. Candidates can view summaries of benefits at Human Resources’ Benefits Summaries web page, at https://hr.nd.edu/employment/benefit-summaries/. For this role, view the summary entitled “Regular Faculty {Full-Time}.” Finally, the University of Notre Dame supports the needs of dual career couples and has a Dual Career Assistance Program to assist relocating spouses and significant others with their job search. Candidates can view summaries of this program at Human Resources’ Dual Career Assistance Program web page, at https://hr.nd.edu/employment/dual-career-assistance-program/ Environment The University of Notre Dame is a highly selective global Catholic doctoral research university with very high research activity whose idyllic campus is located in northern Indiana’s Michiana region, and about 90 miles east from Chicago. For more information about the University of Notre Dame, please visit the University of Notre Dame homepage at http://nd.edu/. The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame advances institutional priorities by utilizing a talent process that maximizes professional and personal potential, implementing innovative services that further intellectual inquiry, and facilitating access to knowledge across a wide range of scholarly resources in numerous disciplines and formats. As the primary library system on Notre Dame's campus, Hesburgh Libraries is a dynamic organization that features the flagship Hesburgh Library. Hesburgh Library, along with the Main Building and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, is one of three iconic buildings that define the skyline of the Notre Dame campus. It also features the world-famous Word of Life mural (affectionately known as “Touchdown Jesus”). The Hesburgh Library building houses the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, the Medieval Institute Library, Rare Books & Special Collections, University Archives, and the Visual Resources Center. The Hesburgh Libraries organization also includes three specialty libraries located across the Notre Dame campus (Architecture Library, Business Library, and Music Library). In 2022, the Hesburgh Libraries developed a new mission, vision, and strategic framework [pdf] designed to help advance Notre Dame's aspirations to become one of the world's leading research universities while prioritizing human and professional flourishing. Within this new framework, each member of the library community plays a key role in advancing strategic goals and objectives, sustaining critical operations, and defining shared values. The Hesburgh Libraries organization employs nearly 200 people, including more than 50 library faculty members, and has been a longstanding member of several organizations, including Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), HathiTrust, and the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Additional information about Hesburgh Libraries can be found on the Libraries’ website https://www.library.nd.edu/employment/. For additional information about working at the University of Notre Dame and various benefits available to employees, please visit http://hr.nd.edu/why-nd.  Qualifications: Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school or equivalent degree, or other advanced academic degree, such as a disciplinary PhD
• Record of publication and other scholarly achievement
• Supervisory experience within an academic or research setting
• Budget management experience
• Ability to work collaboratively and network with a diverse population, across disciplines and campuses
• Proven project success in digital scholarship fields such as digital humanities, digital science, digital social sciences, digital art, or data science
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Exceptional organizational and team-building skills
• Demonstrated understanding of ethical issues in research generally and digital scholarship specifically
• Demonstrated understanding of the scholarly applications of digital tools, metadata standards and data encoding standards.

Preferred

• Record of achievement and contributions appropriate to an appointment at the associate or full library faculty rank
• Teaching experience in an academic setting, library preferred 

Diversity and Inclusion We expect that the successful candidates will increase the diversity of voices within research libraries, higher education, and cultural heritage institutions. Through their materials, applicants should clearly demonstrate how they have embodied, fostered, or implemented an equitable culture that considers diversity to be a competitive advantage. While the University of Notre Dame welcomes and actively seeks Catholic intellectuals, what the University asks of all its scholars and students is not a particular creedal affiliation, but a respect for the objectives of Notre Dame, and a willingness to enter into the conversation that gives it life and character. Therefore, the University insists upon academic freedom that makes open discussion and inquiry possible. The University of Notre Dame is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). Application Instructions: This position posting and application instructions can be found on the Interfolio website: http://apply.interfolio.com/148513 Review of applications will begin immediately, and the application period ends on July 29, 2024. Interested candidates should assemble four (4) items, in the following sequential order, in a single, unlocked Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file: (1) A formal letter of application (3 pages maximum), addressed to: Director, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship Search Committee Hesburgh Libraries University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 (2) A résumé or curriculum vitae (15 pages maximum); (3) Final, accepted, or complete draft publication or comparable non-confidential writing sample (10 pages maximum); and (4) The name, title, institution, and email address of three (3) professional references. At least one of these references must have been your direct supervisor within the past three years. (Hesburgh Libraries search representatives will begin contacting professional references once selected candidates accept an invitation for a campus visit.) Please name the submitted Acrobat file as follows: hesburghlibraries_DNFCDS_lnamefirstinitial  (Example: hesburghlibraries_DNFCDS_DoeJ) Failure to comply with these directions may disqualify your application from being considered or delay review of your materials.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration.  The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace.  We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity.  Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). Background Check  This appointment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.  Applicants will be asked to identify all felony convictions and/or pending felony charges.  Felony convictions do not automatically bar an individual from employment.  Each case will be examined separately to determine the appropriateness of employment in the particular position.  Failure to be forthcoming or dishonesty with respect to felony disclosures can result in the disqualification of a candidate.  The full procedure can be viewed at https://facultyhandbook.nd.edu/?id=link-73597.

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