Associate Director for Library Services, Harry Ransom Center

Position: Associate Director for Library Services, The Harry Ransom Center
** Job Posting

Title:

** Associate Director for Library Services, The Harry Ransom Center**---
- **** Hiring Department:
** Harry Ransom Center**---
- **** Position Open To:
** All Applicants**---
- **** Weekly Scheduled

Hours:

** 40**---
- **** FLSA Status:
** Exempt from FLSA**---
- **** Earliest

Start Date:

** Jun 30, 2026**---
- **** Position Duration:
** Expected to Continue**---
- ***
* Location:

** UT MAIN CAMPUS**---
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**** General Notes
*** About the Harry Ransom Center
* The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas  extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of writers and artists, deepening our understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts. Visitors engage with the Center's collections through research and study, exhibitions, publications, and a rich variety of program offerings including readings, talks, symposia, and film screenings.

The Ransom Center encourages discovery, inspires creativity, and advances understanding of the humanities for a broad audience through the preservation and sharing of its extraordinary collections.
** Purpose
* * The Associate Director for Library Services provides strategic leadership for the Ransom Center’s library services portfolio, including Metadata & Discovery, Collection Management, Technology & Database Administration, Digital Projects, Digital Imaging, Reference, and Public Services.

This role is responsible for setting vision, priorities, and long-term direction for how collections are described, accessed, and stored—ensuring that library programs and services are aligned with institutional goals, sustainable over time, and responsive to evolving research and public needs.

The Associate Director primarily leads at the portfolio level, with day-to-day operations led by the Heads of each unit.
** Responsibilities**
* ** Strategic leadership and portfolio direction**  + Establishes the vision and long-term strategy for library services across physical and digital environments.  + Defines department-wide and portfolio-level priorities and outcomes in alignment with the Ransom Center’s strategic plan.  + Ensures that collection stewardship, access, and service models reflect best practices in archives, libraries, and special collections.  + Leads the development of multi-year roadmaps for each unit.
* ** Program and portfolio oversight**  + Determines the portfolio of programs and initiatives across the seven units, including which initiatives are launched, continued, paused, or concluded.  + Ensures alignment and coordination across units.  + Establishes success measures and performance indicators for the overall portfolio.  + Monitors progress toward strategic outcomes and addresses portfolio-level risks and dependencies.
* ** Organizational capacity and resource strategy**  + Leads staffing and capacity planning for the library services portfolio in partnership with the Executive Director and senior leadership team  + Makes resource and investment recommendations related to staffing models, skills development, tools, infrastructure, and facilities.  + Ensures that resources are aligned with the Ransom Center’s highest priorities.
* ** Stewardship, risk, and sustainability**  + Oversees institutional risk related to library services.  + Ensures appropriate policies and frameworks are in place for collection stewardship, access, and use.  + Leads long-term planning for all units.
* ** Leadership of unit Heads**  + Provides strategic direction, coaching, and performance leadership to the Heads of units.  + Reviews and approves division-level program plans and annual priorities.  + Supports Heads in translating strategy into executable programs while maintaining clear accountability boundaries between strategy and delivery.
* ** Institutional and cross-divisional leadership**  + Serves as a senior member of the organization’s leadership team and contributes to institution-wide strategy and planning.  + Leads cross-divisional initiatives that intersect with library services.  + Represents library services in…