Senior Program Officer, resource Sharing & SHARES

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The job details are as follows:

The Senior Program Officer, Resource Sharing & SHARES provides strategic leadership for OCLC's Research Library Partnership (RLP) in interlibrary loan, collective collections, and resource sharing networks. In this high-profile role, you will lead and grow the RLP's SHARES partnership-an international network of 75+ libraries committed to sharing materials and operational expertise-by setting a clear, future oriented agenda, and making explicit choices about scope and priorities.

You will design and drive a bounded portfolio of initiatives (e.g., 2-4 priority work streams at a time), translating community insight into synthesized recommendations and measurable outcomes that strengthen field practice and inform OCLC's resource sharing product strategy. This includes purposeful programming such as SHARES Town Halls and time-limited working groups that are structured to produce outputs (e.g., recommended practices, trend reports, prioritized areas for action), not just open ended discussion.

Your work will help SHARES members and OCLC anticipate and respond to emerging change, such as evolving e-content models, cross-border sharing, and technology-enabled "smart fulfillment," including AI, so that OCLC continues to lead in a rapidly shifting resource sharing landscape. This position offers a platform for an innovative resource-sharing leader to have global impact by shaping cooperative borrowing, lending, and shared collections across research libraries

Key Responsibilities:

* Lead and Expand the SHARES resource sharing network:
Provide strategic, outcomes‑oriented leadership for SHARES (75+ libraries across North America, the UK, Europe, and beyond). Set the annual/biannual agenda in partnership with the SHARES Executive Group, making explicit choices about priorities and scope. Design and lead SHARES Town Halls and time‑limited working groups with clear charters, deliverables, and decision points, ensuring convenings produce usable outputs (e.g., recommended practices, policy updates, and pilot proposals) rather than open‑ended discussion.

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