Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, October 10 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose
• To manage, organise, evaluate and disseminate information, providing support to members of an academic community including students, researchers and lecturing staff.

Duties and Responsibilities
• To ensure quality resources and space are available to students to support their learning at the University at all times.
• To ensure timely and quality support is provided to the University’s teaching and training staff to ensure quality programme development and reviews, and a comprehensive resource basis for effective delivery of programmes.
• To contribute to enhancement of University research and publications by supporting researchers with full guidance to research resources globally, regionally and nationally, as well as in dissemination of research output.
• To ensure that there is sufficient learning space and resources to cater for the varied learning needs of University students and staff. Thus, the Librarian will be expected to develop/design various policies for the library, introduce different information dissemination services related to the learning resources, and conduct information literacy training programmes for University staff and students
• The University Librarian will plan, budget and manage financial resources within his/her allocation, as well as to seek support for the University’s libraries and learning resources through external sources.
• To develop, motivate, and evaluate the University Library workforce in alignment with job expectations, professional roles, and the University mission.
• The University Librarian will work closely with the national institutions dealing with learning and research resources (libraries, archives), and school libraries.
• The University Librarian will be involved in University’s scholarly life, forming relationships with students, staff, and faculty across the University.
• In addition to the above areas of responsibility, the post-holder may be required to undertake other reasonable duties in line with the needs of the University and the seniority of the role.

Educational Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in library and information Systems with a minimum of 5 years of work experience at the Senior Librarian rank.
• A PhD in Library and Information Systems will be an added advantage.
• Candidates must have thorough knowledge of the role; in knowledge creation and dissemination, and have demonstrated skills and expertise in harnessing of digitalized resources towards meeting the core role of at University Level.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
• To apply for this job email your details to careers.zm@tau.edu.zm 

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