Job Summary

The Program Manager for the Orbis Cascade Alliance supervises two staff and reports to the Executive Director, working with member libraries, vendors, consortium staff, and Alliance teams to oversee, coordinate, develop, and assess the Shared Content and Technical Services Program.  The program has these primary activities, conducted with the collaboration of a member team:

• Purchasing or licensing of approximately $14M in commercial databases, ejournals, and ebooks and memberships related to library collections
• Supporting shared practices in technical services workflow and practices
• Supporting shared practices and staffing for library functions (such as collection development, acquisitions, cataloging, serials and related functions) that maximizes the collective efficiency of these operations within Alliance libraries
• Instituting collection development services & policies with appropriate Alliance stakeholders
• Coordinating strategy for managing the Alliance’s central (Network Zone) bibliographic database, including supporting record loading for common package
• Supervising (1) staff member who manages the Alliance’s central (Network Zone) bibliographic database, including supporting record loading for common packages; and (1) staff member who supports the licensing portfolio

The goal is to bring a sense of unity to Alliance collections while creating efficiencies which enable libraries and their staff to focus on expanding and improving library services and discovery.  The incumbent staff supervised by this position are a Licensing Specialist and a Network Zone Manager.

Guided by the consortium’s mission, vision, values, and strategic agenda, work is non-routine and requires a creative approach to program management and leadership.  This position is expected to exercise great latitude in determining organizational process associated with large, complex, distributed, and high-profile projects.

Additional expectations of all program managers include:

• Lead or otherwise participate in new initiatives.
• Lead efforts to standardize workflows and system configuration.
• Maintain an awareness of all Alliance programs and take active steps to communicate with other programs and help coordinate activities across the consortium.
• Propose and monitor program budget.
• Travel frequently within the northwest region and at least twice yearly within the U.S.

Candidates applying before August 25 will receive full consideration.  

https://www.orbiscascade.org/shared-content-and-technical-services-program-manager/