OU Libraries Jobs
The University of Oklahoma Libraries is transforming the way our community thinks about and interacts with research libraries. The OU Libraries’ award-winning facilities and resources create opportunities for faculty and students to excel in any field. We seek to create excellence in the library experience, to support campus research and data stewardship, to build on the excellence of our special collections, and to promote scholarly communication. We invest in our organization by recruiting individuals committed to superior user experience and by actively strengthening and expanding our skills and capabilities. We invite you to join the OU Libraries in serving as the intellectual crossroads of the University and providing access to informational resources that fulfill the academic, research, artistic, scholarly and community leadership objectives of the university and lead to lifelong knowledge creation.
If you would like to be a part of a team of highly skilled professional and academic librarians who are reshaping what a top-tier academic research library can be, we invite you to apply for any of our open positions at jobs.ou.edu.
No Faculty positions are available at this time.
Assistant Dean, Strategic and Research Initiatives
This leadership position reports to the Dean of University Libraries (UL) and participates in the Senior Management Team, a body working with the Dean to provide overall UL leadership, direction, and the promotion of organizational impact on OU’s research and academic mission. The Assistant Dean will serve as lead designer, facilitator, and manager of UL strategy-setting, as well as organizational liaison for institutional research initiatives supporting UL contributions to institutional success. As assigned, the Assistant Dean will help define and manage Dean-sponsored initiatives and projects affecting UL-wide programs and impacts. This position facilitates the library’s strategic planning process, data-gathering and analysis, and the implementation of strategic priorities. As required, the Assistant Dean will coordinate and lead designated teams and task forces supporting strategic initiatives. Apply online for job #493651.
Director of Digital Collaborations and Partnerships
The University of Oklahoma Libraries seeks a creative, collaborative, and highly strategic leader to serve as the inaugural Director of Digital Collaborations and Partnerships. This Director will lead the launch of and oversee a unified digital research hub and studios initiative supporting computational research, digital scholarship, multimodal and media-rich creative work across disciplines.
Building on more than a decade of digital scholarship and research support at OU, the Director will lead the administrative, outreach, and project management team responsible for the hub’s centralized services, coordinating user intake, project lifecycle support, programming and community-building activities, creating consultation and expert referral pathways to the studios and campus partners. The Director plays a critical strategic role in advancing OU’s Lead On Strategic Plan goals, including elevating research excellence, fostering interdisciplinary innovation, and providing world-class academic resources. Learn how to apply.
Research Data and AI Specialist
The University of Oklahoma Libraries seeks to recruit a Research Data and AI Specialist to advance research data services that support computational, reproducible, and AI-enabled research across the University Libraries system. As research increasingly relies on large, complex datasets and emerging computational methods, this position helps researchers manage, analyze, preserve, and responsibly use research data within computational and reproducible workflows. The Research Data and AI Specialist provides consultations, instruction, and embedded research support on research data management, computational and reproducible workflows, and the ethical application of artificial intelligence to research processes. Working collaboratively with Libraries and campus partners, the position scales services, cultivates data and AI literacy, and expands institutional capacity for responsible, transparent, reproducible, and sustainable research. Responsibilities include providing consultations and instruction; advising on data management plans, metadata standards, computational and reproducible research practices, and research data sharing; developing services that enable long-term stewardship and access to research outputs; supporting responsible AI-enabled research workflows; collaborating with campus partners to advance open science initiatives; and evaluating emerging technologies that strengthen research support across the university. Apply online for job #493900.
No Staff positions are available at this time.
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