ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN LIBRARY SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION – Women’s University

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the position of Assistant Librarian at the Women’s University in Africa Harare campus:

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN – LIBRARY SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION (HARARE CAMPUS)

RESPONSIBILITIES/JOB DESCRIPTION/KEY TASKS

• Day to day management of Institutional Repository services;
• Implementing and improving workflows to capture, describe, store and disseminate a range of research outputs of various formats;
• Ensuring responsible and timely support for WUA faculties, staff and students submitting research and scholarship to the IR;
• Providing oral and written instructions to IR contributors and users; troubleshooting IR Software issues and remote problems timely;
• Contributing to IR user needs analysis, product evaluation and selection.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Library and Information Sciences.

Experience

• At least two (2) years of experience working with institutional or digital repositories;
• Knowledge of MARC records and basic familiarity with library cataloguing standards such as RDA rules