STEM Librarian

About the role

Established in 1964 as the first public university in southeast Florida, Florida Atlantic University serves 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students on six campuses along Florida's beautiful southeast coast in Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie counties. Florida Atlantic has ten distinguished colleges that offer more than 180-degree programs, including the Schmidt College of Medicine, and is home to one of the world's preeminent marine science education and research centers, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Florida Atlantic University is taking its place among the world's great research centers and has been given the designation of a "High Research Activity" university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and advance opportunities for the Libraries to enhance research and instructional productivity and improve student learning by embedding new or existing services into teaching, learning, and research workflows, with particular emphasis on STEM units.
• Engage with faculty, students, and staff in assigned STEM subject areas, developing strong working relationships and partnerships.
• Plan and implement sustainable outreach and engagement strategies to connect library resources, services, and instruction to needs on campus.
• Promote the use of emerging research and STEM-related technologies while assisting students and faculty in locating and effectively using information resources through current research, reading strategies, and instructional methods.
• Support research workflows related to data management, open science, reproducibility, and scholarly communication, in collaboration with campus partners.
• Aid faculty and students with citation management tools, research metrics, and discovery platforms.
• Contribute to institutional repository initiatives, open access publishing, and research visibility efforts, as appropriate.
• Use and support discipline-specific databases and tools in science, engineering, or technology (e.g., Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed).
• Identify opportunities for collaborative workshops, seminars, and research that connect MPFI scientists with FAU faculty and students.
• Participate in outreach services to promote faculty, student, researchers, and staff engagement with Open Educational Resources, Scholarly Publishing, Open Pedagogy, and Digital Commons initiatives.
• Participate in Libraries’ liaison program including development and review of research guides in assigned discipline.
• Support the Libraries’ Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other strategic initiatives.
• Develop an annual professional development plan.
• Investigate opportunities to carry out, publish, and present original scholarship, research, and scholarly projects related to the area of expertise or responsibility.
• Serve on appropriate Libraries, University, regional, state or national committees including professional committees, and actively participate in Libraries’ and campus faculty governance.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• ALA-accredited Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in academic or special libraries as a STEM librarian.
• Experience conducting scoping reviews.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates ability to work both independently and collaboratively as a team member and team leader where consultation, flexibility, creativity, collaboration, and cooperation are essential.
• Demonstrates strong organization skills and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates initiative and strong interpersonal skills with a high level of professionalism and exceptional work ethic.
• Ability to analyze and adapt to change in an ever-evolving and rapidly growing institution.

Skills

• Experience using learning management systems.
• Demonstrates service commitment in leadership roles on committees, contributing to the profession through significant professional service.
• Demonstrates sustained scholarship, research, and creative endeavors, contributing to the profession through peer-reviewed publications in librarianship and presentations at regional or national library-related conferences.
• Demonstrates initiative and strong project management skills in leading significant projects.
• Demonstrates commitment to actively participating in library engagement activities.
• Demonstrates commitment to professional development and lifelong learning.

Benefits and Perks

Position is a non-tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate University Librarian on a 12-month contract with service and sustained expectation of scholarship, research, and/or creative endeavors (as outlined in the FAU Libraries’ Promotion Guidelines: https://library.fau.edu/staff/faculty/promotion-guidelines) required for promotion. FAU Libraries offers (as budget permits): Financial moving assistance, Financial support for professional memberships, Financial support for professional development participation, leadership, and service activities including travel. If Benefits & Perks are important to you, then FAU is the place to be!

Working at FAU has its perks! In addition to helping drive change and having a positive impact by supporting our students, staff, and faculty, FAU offers:

• Excellent benefit packages including Medical (PPO/HMO $50 per month single & $180 per month family), Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending plans, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and much more.
• State retirement options including tax-deferred annuities and Roth 403(b) plans.
• State employees Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
• Sick Leave Pool Program.
• Paid time off (eligible employees) including vacation and sick leave, 1 personal day, 9 paid holidays, and paid winter break (at President’s discretion).
• Employee Educational Scholarship Program (EESP) for eligible Staff/Faculty - Tuition assistance after 6 months of full-time employment.

If you are interested in applying, please visit www.fau.edu/jobs.