Location: OaklandFull Time
Job ID: 51632
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Department Overview
At the core of the California Digital Library (CDL) is a simple idea - by mobilizing the expertise and creativity of our diverse community and engaging in collaborative problem-solving, we can transform the way libraries and scholars work, thus furthering the University of California's mission to educate, illuminate, and serve. Through CDL's commitment to sustainable open scholarship, an ever-wider range of freely available research informs ever-more potent responses to real-world challenges. Together with the UC campus libraries and our other partners, we expand the academy's capacity for innovation, knowledge creation, and research breakthroughs, and enable the University to produce a measurable impact valued by the state, the nation, and the world. The CDL has four core programs: the UC Curation Center (UC3); Shared Collections; Discovery & Delivery; and Publishing, Archives, and Digitization. UC3 supports leading-edge products (Dryad, DMPTool, Merritt, EZID), as well as initiatives in the areas of research data management, data publication, persistent identifiers, and digital preservation. The primary user base for CDL programs and services include UC faculty, students, and library staff.
The CDL is a unit within the Academic Affairs division of the UC Office of the President, has a staff of 75 and is located in downtown Oakland. Applicants who wish to work onsite, hybrid, or remote within California will be considered. This position is not eligible for Visa transfer or sponsorship.
Position Summary
The UC3 Associate Director, reporting to the UC3 Director, will be an enthusiastic member of a dynamic organization applying advanced product management concepts, techniques, and objectives to plan, create, maintain, enhance, and operate robust services responsive to the evolving needs of UC stakeholders. The UC3 Associate Director plays a pivotal role in UC3 by shaping the trajectory for UC3 through the development of long-range strategic plans and roadmaps. The position also leads strategic conversations and engagement with national and international initiatives within the digital library space. He or she will collaborate and consult closely with the UC3 Director and the UC3's Development Manager, as well as with CDL's central services groups (IT, Web programming, UX team, etc.). This position will manage a team of UC3 product and service managers to ensure the continued delivery of high-quality services and project outcomes, the ability to grow these services in accordance with CDL strategic objectives, and the capacity to respond to new opportunities and systemwide mandates. The UC3 Associate Director is responsible for evaluating new opportunities that advance UC3's work, as well as emerging industry trends, to determine if they can be adapted for increased utility for UC3 initiatives in the areas of research data management, data publication, persistent identifiers, and digital preservation. This position will set the direction for the product team across these areas, ensuring that they are leading edge in their design and implementation and that they address the needs of users within UC and across the State of California.
Key Responsibilities

• 25% Planning: Rationalizes service planning and evaluation activities to promote strategic and deliberate product development and to create capacity within the group to take advantage of new opportunities. Leads the product team in developing effective practices for regularly assessing services and projects to recognize when those activities should be modified or ended.

25% Service/Product Quality: Develops and oversees the continued implementation of strategies for consistency, reliability and efficiency across all services and projects. Ensures the creation and use of best practices for operational standards, customer support, stakeholder communication and engagement, product/project development and roll-out activities, documentation, QA, reporting, and assessment.

• 25% Group Priorities: Works with the UC3 Director and UC3's Development Manager to align program activities with organizational priorities maintain an understanding of development team priorities and capacity, and to evaluate strategic opportunities.

• 15% Management and Supervision: Provides guidance to the product and service managers following established policies and management guidance. Ensures that staff activities are aligned with CDL's strategic priorities, and that sufficient time is allocated for professional development opportunities.

• 10% Collaboration: Collaborates with CDL colleagues to develop organizational best practices across programs and services. Participates in groups and initiatives at UC systemwide, national, and international levels.

Experience
Required Qualifications

• Min 10 years of experience with development and delivery of online information services in educational, publishing, library and/or research settings, including experience establishing product development plans; working with technical and non-technical staff; helping users with online information services and/or products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing an Information Technology organization.

Skills and Abilities
Required Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of user-centric software development practices and core digital library technical concepts and issues, including various standards related to research data management, digital preservation, data publishing, data metrics, and persistent identifiers.
• Experience in the oversight and creation of technical and end-user requirements documents and high-level system designs.
• Able to evaluate existing local systems and vendor-supplied systems against requirements, make well-researched recommendations regarding purchasing and modifying third-party systems or building local home-grown solutions, and develop and coordinate product/project implementation plans.
• Experience in ensuring reliable production services; leading implementations of new, enterprise-wide applications; creating and assuring the adherence to best practices that allow for continued development and feature deployment while maintaining expected service levels and user experience.
• Excellent analytical abilities combined with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to create clear and concise documentation, reports, proposals and presentations covering both technical and non-technical topics for audiences with varied levels of technical knowledge.
• Experience in managing scholarly communications systems and services with multiple, distinct stakeholder groups, including experience with both vendor and locally developed applications.
• Commitment to proactively promoting and embracing diversity in ideas, people, and organizations, and to contributing to an inclusive, equitable working and learning environment.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, paired with the demonstrated ability to create and execute product/development plans.
• Demonstrated ability to directly supervise both technical and non-technical staff for product development and for daily operations.
• Ability to provide leadership and create consensus where possible.
• Deep and broad knowledge of trends and current issues related to scholarly communication, data repositories, digital preservation, and other spheres of existing and emerging library activities.

Education
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.

Job Title
Applications Programming Manager 1
Job Code
000649
Salary Grade
Grade 26
Approved/Budgeted Payscale (the salary that University reasonably expects to pay for this position based on experience):
$150,000 - $160,000
Full Salary Range (This range shows the growth potential for this position; New hires will not be brought in at a rate higher than the above listed budgeted payscale of the position):
$112,100 - $216,700
The University of California, Office of the President, is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience. The full salary range shows the growth potential for this position and the pay scale is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position.
HOW TO APPLY
Please be prepared to attach a cover letter and resume with your application.
Applicants who wish to work onsite, hybrid, or remote within California will be considered. This position is not eligible for Visa transfer or sponsorship.
APPLICATION REVIEW DATE
The first review date for this job isApril 28, 2023. The position will be open until filled.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Background Check Process: Successful completion of a background check is required for this critical position. Background check process at UCOP
Smoke Free Work Environment: The University of California, Office of the President, is smoke & tobacco-free as of January 1, 2014. UC Smoke & Tobacco Free Policy
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EEO STATEMENT
The University of California, Office of the President, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. EEO/AA Employer UC Nondiscrimination Policy
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