Director of Teaching and Learning Services

The UCLA Library seeks a highly collaborative leader to serve as unit head for the recently-created Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) department. The director will oversee the department’s programs and services, which include information literacy instruction, core research assistance services, instructional design and assessment, and student engagement. TLS provides direction and leadership for these areas and collaborates with other Library departments for implementation and alignment, including topics such as information literacy related to artificial intelligence, mis/disinformation, and sustainable, scalable, and inclusive pedagogy.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of UCLA Library’s teaching and learning programs and lead a talented, creative team whose collective expertise and commitment to service foster strong partnerships across campus.

Reporting to the AUL for Teaching, Learning, and Research. The incumbent is responsible for the following:

• Develop and lead service strategy for Teaching and Learning Services, including sustainable and scalable information literacy and research help services with focus on: coordination of research help services, foundational and advanced information literacy; student engagement programs, instructional design, and assessment.
• Collaborate with Library colleagues to develop and align teaching and learning services and support with departments outside of the TLR division, including Special Collections, International and Area Studies, and the Film and Television Archive.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with campus partners and entities in support of Library and departmental goals and priorities.
• Oversee unit allocated budgets in accordance with UCLA Library Fund Manager expectations.
• Oversee recruitment, coaching, mentorship, performance management, and retention of ~18 librarians and staff, both as a direct and indirect supervisor. Serve as Review Initiator (RI) for librarians and support other supervisors and team leads in their responsibilities. Ensure librarian and staff responsibilities and goals are in alignment with unit, division, and library-wide goals and priorities.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Library to inform space-related upgrades and modifications to support services and programming priorities.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Library to ensure collections support evolving teaching and research needs.
• Work with AUL to ensure departmental staffing and service models support Library goals and complement Research Services and Access Services foci and service models.
• Serve as an active member of the Library’s Management Council.
• Work closely with Library Development to identify and steward donors, collections, and endowed gift funds.

The successful candidate will be committed to promoting and enhancing diversity through engagement with and promotion of UCLA True Bruin values and the UCLA Principles of Community; able to collaborate across departments and divisions; foster an inclusive and team-oriented work environment; adaptable to change; and able to lead teams through change.

Professional librarians at UCLA are academic appointees. This is a non-represented position. Within the UC System, most librarians are represented by an exclusive bargaining agent, University Council – American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT). As academic appointees, librarians are entitled to appropriate professional leave, two days per month of vacation leave, one day per month of sick leave, and all other benefits granted to non-faculty academic personnel.

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