The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) seeks an exceptional colleague to further the Association’s advocacy, scholarship, and policy agenda. The director of Research Policy and Scholarship will serve at the forefront of understanding emerging developments in policy, technology, and culture and applying them to research practices, scholarship, and libraries.
The director of Research Policy and Scholarship will be a member of ARL’s Scholarship and Policy Team, which advances a portfolio of initiatives to bridge research policy and institutional practice through engagement with research partners, cross-sector stakeholders, and decision makers—resulting in opportunities to collectively inform and shape the research and learning ecosystem.
ARL is a collective of leading research libraries and archives in Canada and the United States. The Association has a proven record of accomplishment in law and public policy, most notably in copyright and intellectual property; digital information access; diversity, equity, and inclusion; accessibility; privacy; and open scholarship.
This position presents a unique opportunity to work on leading research and professional practice challenges—including data-intensive and computationally and technologically enabled scholarship such as AI, new modes of publishing, and open science—in close collaboration with higher education, research, and policymaking communities.
The director of Research Policy and Scholarship’s major responsibilities will include the following:
- Advance the visibility and integration of research libraries along with other research, higher education, information technology, and library organizations on institutional and public policy issues that arise from new and emerging practices in research, teaching, and learning.
- Track global open science and open scholarship developments and work with the ARL membership to lead and partner in these developments.
- Represent and advance the Scholars & Scholarship portfolio with key partners to advance program objectives, particularly as they relate to the broader mission of equitable and enduring access to information.
- Lead key initiatives and task forces of the Scholars & Scholarship Committee.
More Details & To Apply
For more information about this position and to apply, see the full job posting on the ARL website.
About the Association of Research Libraries
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of research libraries in Canada and the US whose vision is to create a trusted, equitable, and inclusive research and learning ecosystem and prepare library leaders to advance this work in strategic partnership with member libraries and other organizations worldwide. ARL’s mission is to empower and advocate for research libraries and archives to shape, influence, and implement institutional, national, and international policy. ARL develops the next generation of leaders and enables strategic cooperation among partner institutions to benefit scholarship and society. ARL is on the web at ARL.org.
