The EDI Student Success Librarian will be located with the Undergraduate & Instructional Services Department within the Teaching, Learning, and Engagement subdivision of the New York University’s Division of Libraries. This new position focuses on instruction, outreach, programming, and campus partnerships, supporting students as full people, with politically intersectional — racialized, gendered, religious, and other socio-cultural identities. This position will lead highly collaborative efforts across the Libraries — and campus — to support the student experience through the creation of both critically informed instructional and outreach programs to all students, with a focus on first-year, first-generation, and underrepresented student groups. This approach to learning consciously incorporates the values of critical librarianship, experience and community-based, critical thinking and reflection upon power within social-political structures into undergraduate library instruction and outreach.

Responsibilities

     • Develop and maintain partnerships with NYU students, faculty, and colleagues across campus to support and assess student success efforts, particularly in             areas that positively affect academic engagement, social engagement and belonging, affordability, and students’ ability to navigate the university.

     • Create, distribute, and inform library teaching and learning strategies, services and objects using critical librarianship theories and applications

     • Provide guidance for the design, development, and coordination of library workshops and events that integrate library resources and services with campus               student support services

     • Contribute to general reference services, both in person and online

     • Contribute to general undergraduate instruction as a part of a core instruction team

     • Work collaboratively across the Division to support professional development on understanding and incorporating student success into instructional practices

     • Monitor trends in emerging student success, holistic student experience, and community-based learning theory and applications

     • Contribute to state, regional, or national committees, and participate in research, publication, or creative activities, and other professional and scholarly                    activities in pursuit of meeting the library’s tenure requirements for scholarship, service, and leadership

NYU Cluster Hiring Initiative

NYU Libraries is participating in the NYU Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative to recruit, welcome, and support new library faculty working across the Division on timely themes of social importance, such as Inequality and Anti-racism, Population Health and Health Equity, Open Science and the Public Good, and Urban Environments and Politics. NYU Libraries will use the cluster-hire approach to address our goal of building a more diverse faculty community in a concerted way, with the full weight of the University’s recruitment and retention toolkit. The initiative also allows us to mobilize our internal resources, including onboarding, cohort mentoring, and measures to protect time for research and service, and bring them to bear to ensure the success of new hires. For full details about the Libraries cluster hiring initiative, see this link.

This particular position is part of our Centering Underrepresented Voices: Anti-Racist Practices in Libraries and Archives cluster. The positions in the cluster are strategically placed in three core areas of librarianship: collections and subject expertise, description and discovery, and engagement and outreach. The cluster will center underrepresented communities' voices by bringing in new collections of African American and Black Diaspora Studies materials in all formats, creating anti-racist descriptive and metadata practices to support the discovery and use of these collections, and promulgating engagement and research services that draw on and support the growth of new knowledge. By approaching collections curation, description, and research support through a lens of inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and accessibility (IDBEA), we create a set of interlocking and cohesive supports that enrich the scholarly lives of our communities.

Qualifications:

Required

     • Minimum one graduate degree (master’s level or higher), conferred by start date, for consideration. A second graduate degree will be required to be eligible             for tenure. One of the two graduate degrees must be an ALA-accredited MLS or recognized equivalent.

     • Experience with or related coursework regarding teaching, programming, and/or outreach

     • Commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, belonging, and accessibility within teaching, learning, and engagement services and experiences

     • Commitment to supporting undergraduates from underrepresented communities, such as BIPOC and first-generation students

     • Knowledge of current trends and issues in information literacy and outreach services (e.g., critical librarianship), and student success (which could include               retention, student transition and development, behavioral science, community and/or belonging)

     • Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and contribute effectively as a member of a team

     • Commitment to public service

     • Creative, analytical, and problem-solving skills

     • Public speaking and written communication skills

Preferred

     • A second advanced degree in a related field

     • Experience working in a culturally diverse environment, such as a work setting or professional organization

     • Record of professional activities, including research and engagement in professional organizations

About NYU Libraries

The Division of Libraries values diversity among its faculty, is committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and strongly encourages applications from members of underrepresented communities. We are proud of our organizational culture and are committed to building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization that supports a sense of belonging for the staff and communities we serve. For more information regarding the Libraries’ commitment to IDBE, see the Libraries’ Mission & Values Statement, our Diversity and Inclusion Values Statement, and our Commitment to Anti-Racism.

Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Faculty at NYU, including in the Division of Libraries, have always enjoyed relative flexibility in their work, allowing for remote work as appropriate.

Application Instructions

We would love to hear from you! To ensure consideration, submit your CV and letter of application, including the contact information of three professional references to http://apply.interfolio.com/100831 NYU Division of Libraries requires all candidates for this position to supply a statement demonstrating
their dedication to inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging as part of their application. Access the Diversity Statement prompt here https://nyu.box.com/v/diversity-statement Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Preference will be given to applications received by April 25, 2022.

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Submit specified application materials to libraries.careers@nyu.edu.