Director, Research Library Partnerships Programs

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The job details are as follows:
The Research Library Partnership (RLP) Director provides strategic and operational leadership for OCLC's Research Library Partnership, an established global partnership rooted in research libraries.

In this role, the Director will explore and evaluate options to support a more inclusive library partnership model, including potential new affiliation models that could encompass additional library types (such as public and national libraries) and inform future evolution of the programming portfolio.

Working in close partnership with Senior Program Officers (SPOs) who lead specific program areas, such as Metadata Leadership & Innovation, Resource Sharing, and the SHARES Community, the RLP Director ensures that RLP activities are well coordinated, strategically aligned, and delivered in a consistent, high quality manner.

The RLP Direct...