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Please direct inquiries about the following position to Nanette Grimm <ngrimm@library.ucsf.edu>


PROJECT MANAGER
TOBACCO CONTROL DIGITAL LIBRARY

The University of California, San Francisco seeks an individual to provide leadership in digital library services, content and projects for tobacco control.  

UCSF is one of the ten campuses of the University of California devoted exclusively to the academic health sciences and related professions. The Library serves 3,500 graduate students and supports the teaching, research and service missions of the campus. Long renowned for the depth and breadth of its paper collection, the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management is developing a leadership role in the digital services and resources.  The Library serves as a campus focal point for knowledge-based applications of information technology.  The library has both paper and digital tobacco control initiatives. 

The UCSF Library has been a leader in the field of tobacco industry document research and access since UCSF established the Tobacco Control Archives (TCA) in 1994. TCA provides a centralized source of information about the tobacco control movement and resulting legislation. It collects, preserves, and provides access to papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources. Highlights include the Brown & Williamson Collection-the first tobacco industry documents to be released on the Internet- documentation of the lawsuit challenging the Joe Camel ad campaign, and the British American Tobacco Company Collection, offering a small number of digital documents from a print-only depository in the UK.  The Library is home to the recently released Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, a collection of 20,000,000 pages of previously secret documents from tobacco industry files. The documents represent the world's largest public digital collection maintained by a library.

The Project Manager serves as a leader in the development of content and services and in promoting Tobacco Control Digital Library resources to others.  The incumbent provides a focus in developing strategies for access to tobacco control resources on the campus and nationally, and oversight and coordination of the tobacco control website.  As a member of a project team the incumbent conceptualizes, develops and co-manages new projects that support and enhance access to digital resources in the field.  The incumbent collaborates with technical staff and UCSF faculty in identifying and developing proposals to expand and extend digital library efforts; identifies external funding sources; and assists in grant preparation.  

Additionally, the incumbent will work with UCSF faculty in the Center for Tobacco Research and Education to assist in the conduct of research based on the tobacco industry documents, including training people how to search documents, supervising the indexing of documents, coordinating new acquisitions of documents, and making these new documents available to the research community in an accessible digital form.  It is likely that this individual will be a collaborator on one or more research grants with responsibility for coordinating the management of the Library's components of these research projects and assist in the preparation of progress reports and grant applications related to the Library's component of these research projects.

Requirements:  MLS or equivalent; library experience; knowledge of Web and digital library technologies to deliver information and services; excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to work collegially in a complex organizational environment; project management and supervisory experience; demonstrated analytical skills.  Preferred:  website management; work in an academic environments; grant writing; and user interface design.

Appointment to the Academic Coordinator I series (salary range is $41,352 - $78,732 per year.  Appointment usually in the lower to mid range, depending on qualifications)

Address letters of application with resume and the names of three references to:

Nanette Grimm
Human Resources Coordinator
UCSF Library/CKM
University of California
San Francisco, CA  94143-0840

The University of California, San Francisco, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  UCSF undertakes affirmative action to assure equal opportunity for underutilized minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, for Vietnam-era veterans, and for special disabled veterans.