Manager, Information Resources

Are you looking for a change? Do you have acquisition and/or procurement experience or feel you have an excellent grasp of managing e-resources analysis? Located in downtown Ottawa, the Library and Knowledge Centre (LKC) at Innovation, Science and Economic Development is looking for a talented and experienced person to join our team. The position is to manage the acquisition and cataloging team. Successful candidates will have a secret security clearance and a CBC language profile. This is an anticipatory posting for a start in September 2024. At this point we are looking for persons in pre-existing LS position. SOUGHT EXPERIENCE: - Manager, Information resources

• Management and oversight of staff;
• Experience with acquisitions, circulation, ILL, cataloguing, serials control, news content and digital services;
• Management of the delivery of information resources for the electronic and print resources for library and departmental clients (over $4.3 M annually); this includes review of contract clauses and handling complex or problematic invoices;
• Accounting of subscription costs and monthly spending in a financial database (IFMS-SAP);
• Supporting management of the departmental media monitoring system (Newsdesk) and the Department’s integrated library system (Sierra);
• Attending monthly directorate financial meetings;
• Supporting auditing and quality assurance as required by the Corporate Management Sector (CMS) for contracts;
• Following Government of Canada contracting and procurement rules; follow-up with publishers and providers including reconciling financial transactions monthly with sector IFMS reports and liaise with sectors for their own acquisitions;
• Compiling usage statistics and update user lists;
• Experience in the procurement of information resources for the Government of Canada and contract negotiation and license agreements;
• Experience with reference and research processes, main library tools and databases;

The ideal candidate would have the following:

• Experience managing human resources;
• Experience with Microsoft Forms, Sierra and/or IFMS (SAP);
• 3-5 years experience handling acquisitions and procurement;
• Experience with an integrated library system;
• Fluent in French language (CBC scale);
• Secret clearance

Please contact Alain-Philippe Bruneau at alain-philippe.bruneau@ised-isde.gc.ca by June 30^th 2024 if you are interested.

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