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1. Leads the selection, acquisition, renewal, licensing, promotion, and discovery of collections and resources that strengthen the clinical, educational, and research missions of Yale New Haven Medical Center. 2. Under the direction of the Associate Director, manages a multi-million dollar budget and works closely with the medical library's leadership to provide budget projections for library collections, monitor fund reports, and ensure effective management of general account and endowed collection funds. 3. Collaborates with YNHHS-affiliated hospital librarians, procurement staff, and leaders in the Yale New Haven Health System to negotiate pricing and licenses for clinical point-of-care resources, especially those integrated into the electronic health record system. 4. Partners with health sciences librarians to license and market unique content and tools, such as bioinformatics analysis software and storage, clinical information resources, nursing and medical education resources, and biomedical datasets. 5. Utilizes bibliometrics, usage data, and other assessment and evaluation tools to support data-driven collection management decisions, assess return on investment, and increase the efficiency of processes and workflows. 6. Supports medical library e-resources access and authentication solutions. Investigates and helps resolve e-resources access issues from clinical sites. 7. Collaborates with Yale Library system collections, e-resources, scholarly communication, and technical services units. 8. Understands and follows trends related to publishing, scholarly communication, copyright, funder mandates, and information and data sharing policies, particularly in the health sciences. 9. May collaborate with other librarians to offer programming and educational materials about collection and scholarly publication trends and to promote openness and new publishing models. 10. Participates in library committees and task forces, and engages in campus, regional, and national professional organizations, and collaborative activities. May represent Yale in state, national, and international organizations. 11. May be required to participate with disaster recovery efforts.

Preferred Education:  Knowledge of health sciences libraries and their evolving roles in health sciences education, biomedical research, clinical practice, and scholarly communication. Experience with implementing joint licenses between academic entities and health systems.

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:  Knowledge of health sciences libraries and their evolving roles in health sciences education, biomedical research, clinical practice, and scholarly communication. Experience with implementing joint licenses between academic entities and health systems.

Required Skill/ability 5:  Commitment to an inclusive workplace. Ability to engage with diverse audiences (age, gender, nationality, race/ethnicity, profession, sexual orientation, etc.).

Posting Position Title:  Collections Strategies Librarian, Medical

Required Skill/ability 3:  Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to solve problems and manage complex workflows. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Work Week:  Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)

University Job Title:  Collection Strategies Librarian

Required Skill/ability 1:  Demonstrated ability to manage a budget and strong spreadsheet skills. Demonstrated experience with analyzing usage statistics.

Required Skill/ability 4:  Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills; and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Required Skill/ability 2:  Knowledge of the electronic publishing environment and experience with electronic resources management, including license and product negotiations, vendor relations, and collection development and management.

MLS from an ALA-accredited library school or master's degree in a related field, with a minimum of two years of professional library experience and professional accomplishments or equivalent, preferably in an academic setting.

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