Assistant Director of Electronic Resources Management

Job Description

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) invites applications for the position of Assistant Director of Electronic Resources Management to join the Hunt Library. This position provides strategic oversight of the library's electronic resources program, supporting the teaching, learning, and research mission of Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach, Prescott, and Worldwide campuses. Reporting to the Senior Associate Director for Collection Strategy & Technical Services, the Assistant Director of Electronic Resources Management leads the planning, acquisition, licensing, assessment, and lifecycle management of the library's electronic resources.

The position manages more than $2 million in annual electronic resource expenditures, supervises the Access & Discovery Librarian, and collaborates with colleagues across the Hunt and Hazy Libraries to ensure seamless, sustainable access to electronic resources. The successful candidate will join the Hunt Library ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).) on the Daytona Beach campus working regular business hours. Hunt Library is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable workplace and a collegial culture of belonging for our employees and students.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

• Provide strategic leadership for the planning, acquisition, licensing, implementation, assessment, renewal, and lifecycle management of the library's electronic resources.
• Manage the library's electronic resources budget, currently exceeding $2 million annually, including budget monitoring, financial analysis, expenditure tracking, and long-term planning.
• Negotiate electronic resource licenses and vendor agreements while maintaining productive relationships with publishers, vendors, and university stakeholders.
• Lead the assessment of electronic resource collections using usage statistics, cost-per-use analysis, financial data, and other assessment measures to support evidence-based collection development.
• Supervise, mentor, and support the Access & Discovery Librarian, providing leadership for the Electronic Resources Unit through workflow coordination, goal setting, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with the Access & Discovery Librarian to support authentication, discovery services, electronic resource access, and management of the Hunt and Hazy Libraries' A–Z database lists.
• Oversee electronic resource reporting, usage statistics, and data management using COUNTER/SUSHI standards, library analytics tools, and library management systems.
• Participate in library planning, committee work, professional development, and other initiatives that advance library services and the university's mission.

For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.

Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.

Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.

• Generous Time Off:
  Enjoy up to 18 days of paid leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15 days accrued throughout the year. You'll also receive 9+ paid holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
• Tuition Coverage:
  Get 100% tuition coverage for yourself for one undergraduate and one graduate degree, and discounted rates…