Employment Opportunities
POSITION TITLE: Consortium Coordinator [CC]
SUMMARY: The Consortium Coordinator manages the activities of the consortium through planning, mentoring, training, education, and technology support. The CC also fulfills the corporate responsibilities of the consortium through bookkeeping, contract negotiations, financial reporting, and representing the consortium at the annual board meeting. This is a hybrid position with the ability to work from home 3 days a week and on-site at a member library 2 days a week.
REPORTS TO: Library Directors Committee
PRINCIPLE FUNCTIONS:
Management & Systems
- Administers Alma/Primo VE for member libraries in multiple Alma instances, including all configurations and Tier I support.
- Administers Omeka.net for the consortium, creating new sites for member libraries and helps with configurations and batch loading as needed.
- Maintains the organizations operations on Amazon Web Services (Route 53, S3, and limited EC2 instances)
- Administers SWITCH Microsoft 365 Outlook account and distribution groups.
- Provides Tier 1 support for EZ Proxy issues.
- Establishes and leads all procedures or practices relating to office operations.
- Promotes & supports library system integration with other information and learning applications. This includes working with member institution IT staff to ensure that certificates are up-to-date. Monitors and troubleshoots patron uploads via SWITCH’s FTP server.
- Maintains the SWITCH Archives on Omeka.net, including adding minutes, budgets, audited financial statements, strategic plans, SWITCH Days, etc. to the archive with appropriate metadata.
Organizational Planning & Leading
- Ex-officio to the SWITCH Library Directors and Finance Committees.
- Facilitates vision- and goal-setting for the consortium and develops an annual strategic plan.
- Represents the consortium with any/all vendors relating to the shared library system, OCLC-hosted EZ Proxy, and courier services.
- Involved with state and national professional organizations.
- Conducts ongoing environmental scanning of technical opportunities for consortium.
- Coordinates the Monday-Friday delivery service for the consortium
Financial
- Leads annual budget planning and budgeting activities throughout the fiscal year.
- Performs all financial accounting for the organization, including representing management during the annual audit and tax preparation.
Teaching & Learning
- Provides orientation and training of new member library staff as needed.
- Provides ongoing training and consultations for existing staff members (regularly scheduled and special programs).
- Provides software design assistance to advance current staff- and patron-focused projects.
- Coordinates an annual professional development and consortium social event.
- Visits each member library on-site monthly.
- Extends consortium communication capabilities.
- Continuously updates instructional materials or tutorials relating to any aspect of the library system.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Familiarity with library systems and other information technology tools (preferably Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE).
- Familiarity with institutional repository platforms (preferably Omeka.net)
- Knowledge of MARC21 and Dublin Core formats for bibliographic and authority data.
- Knowledge of MarcEdit preferred.
- Ability to coordinate multiple projects and adjust to priorities as needed.
- Knowledge of effective instruction and training methodologies.
- Experience with user support, customer service, or reference situations.
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent written communication skills.
- Ability to listen and respond positively to user issues.
- Ability to take issues or projects arising out of consortium activities and carry to completion.
- Ability to make presentations and work comfortably in executive meeting situations.
- Experience with SQL or Oracle BI.
- Ability to proactively grow one’s skill set in response to emerging technologies and organizational change.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- A terminal degree in library science, information technology, or information management area (master’s degree preferred).
- Experience in an academic library environment & familiarity with their technologies.
- Demonstrated successful project management skills.
- Demonstrated management and/or supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated service orientation and customer service experience.
- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills.
SALARY & BENEFITS:
- Salary range is $53,000-$56,000, commensurate with experience.
- Benefits include health, vision, dental, and term life insurance, 403(b) with matching, and sick days –vacation allowance.
Send resume, cover letter, and three references to: jobs@switchinc.org. References will not be contacted prior to candidates being notified. Incomplete applications without these documents will not be reviewed. This is a continuous recruitment with an initial review date of 03/26/2025. The search will remain open until filled, with priority consideration for applications received by 03/26/2025.