Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy & Content

Prairie View A&M University; Prairie View (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Prairie View A&M University is seeking an Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy & Content to lead an integrated portfolio including acquisitions, licensing, metadata, and digital platforms. You will guide scholarly content strategy and optimize discovery environments to support research and learning.

The role reports to the Dean of Libraries and drives a data-driven approach to investments, platforms, and services, collaborating across campus for university priorities.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of trends, standards, and best practices in academic library collections.
• Experience building and guiding evidence-based collection development and assessment.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an integrated collections, content, and digital strategy aligned with university priorities.
• Oversee licensing, electronic resources management, and vendor relations within the budget.
• Lead metadata, discovery platforms, and repository infrastructure initiatives.
• Strengthen web development and digital service environments for user access.
• Recruit, supervise, coach, and develop librarians and staff; foster collaboration.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Budget stewardship

Vendor negotiations

Data analytics

Effective communication

Education

ALA-accredited MLS

Job description

Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy & Content

Agency: Prairie View A&M University Department Library

Proposed Minimum Salary: Commensurate

Job Location: Prairie View, Texas

Job Type: Staff

Important Immigration Information

A Presidential proclamation issued on September 19, 2025, imposes a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions filed after September 21, 2025. Please be advised that Texas A&M University will NOT pay this fee. Therefore, if you need immigration sponsorship for your employment, we recommend that you consult with your private immigration counsel at your own expense to ascertain whether your current immigration status would make a potential offer of employment from Texas A&M University subject to this fee. In addition, on January 27, 2026, Texas Governor Abbot issued a moratorium on the filing of any new H-1B unless approved by the Texas Workforce Commission. Accordingly, if you will now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status this moratorium may affect our ability to employ you should you be selected as the final candidate.

Job Overview

Reporting to the Dean of Libraries and serving as a member of the senior leadership team, the Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy & Content provides strategic and administrative leadership for an integrated portfolio of approximately 5 FTE, plus student employees. This role leads the strategy, people, systems, and investments through which scholarly content is selected, acquired, licensed, organized, discovered, managed, preserved, and made accessible. The position integrates collection strategy, acquisitions, licensing, metadata, discovery, library systems, digital platforms, repository support, web development, digitization, and related content operations in support of Prairie View A&M University’s research, teaching, and learning priorities. The Associate Dean works collaboratively with the Dean of Libraries, the Associate Dean for Research, Academic Engagement & Library Experience, and other campus partners to develop an evidence-driven approach to collections, content, platforms, and digital strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an integrated collections, content, platforms, discovery, and digital strategy aligned with University research, teaching, and academic priorities.
• Lead collection strategy, development, assessment, analytics, and intelligence using cost, usage, curriculum, research activity, faculty expertise, emerging disciplines, and institutional priorities.
• Oversee content acquisition, licensing, electronic resources management, vendor relations, negotiations, resource allocation, and stewardship of the collections budget.
• Establish meaningful measures of collection value, discovery effectiveness, operational performance, and impact, and use findings to guide investment and service decisions.
• Provide strategic direction for metadata, resource description, discovery, integrated library systems, access technologies, and the institutional repository platform.
• Strengthen web development, digital service environments, digitization, digital production, and digital content workflows and infrastructure.
• Improve the infrastructure and user experience through which students, faculty, and researchers discover and access library content.
• Evaluate and redesign workflows; use technology and automation appropriately to increase organizational capacity, service quality, and operational effectiveness.
• Recruit, supervise, coach, and develop managers, librarians, staff, student employees, and emerging leaders; foster a collaborative, accountable work environment.
• Lead organizational change, build new capabilities, and integrate programs and functions across the portfolio.
• Partner with the Associate Dean for Research, Academic Engagement & Library Experience and other stakeholders so that collections, technologies, platforms, and discovery environments respond to research, teaching, service, and user needs.
• Represent the University Libraries on relevant University committees and with external partners, vendors, and professional organizations.
• Participate as a member of the University Libraries’ senior leadership team and work collaboratively across organizational boundaries.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education & Experience

• ALA-accredited master’s degree in library or information science.
• Six years of professional library experience following receipt of the master’s degree.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of trends, standards, technologies, and practices affecting academic library collections, scholarly content, licensing, metadata, discovery, digital platforms, repositories, and scholarly communication.
• Knowledge of evidence-based collection development, assessment, budget stewardship, vendor management, and resource allocation.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively.
• Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications.
• Knowledge of policies and procedures of TAMUS.
• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience in one or more areas relevant to collections, content, library technology, digital strategy, metadata, discovery, or related operations.
• Experience leading academic or research library programs, including strategic planning and implementation across collections, content, technology, and digital services.
• Experience managing organizational change, personnel development, resource allocation, budgets, vendor negotiations, workflow improvement, and evidence-based assessment.
• Experience with library systems and digital infrastructure, including discovery platforms, electronic resources, repositories, web development, digitization, or digital scholarship.
• Record of developing effective teams, strengthening organizational capability, and cultivating emerging leaders.
• Experience supporting the research and academic priorities of a growing research university.

Job Closing Date

Job Posting Close Date: Until Filled

Background Check Requirements

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Prairie View A&M University is an Equal Opportunity/ Veterans/ Disability Employer.

About Prairie View A&M University

For more than 140 years, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has been igniting passion in its students. With an established reputation for producing engineers, nurses, and educators, PVAMU offers baccalaureate degrees, master’s degrees, and doctoral degree programs through nine colleges and schools. The University has an enrollment of more than 8,500 students. Designated an institution of “the first class” in the Texas Constitution, PVAMU is the second-oldest public institution of higher education in the state and a member of The Texas A&M University System. The University is dedicated to fulfilling its land-grant mission of achieving excellence in teaching, research, and service. PVAMU is conveniently located near the rapidly growing residential and commercial area known as the Northwest Houston Corridor. The developing Northwest Houston Corridor offers newly developed suburban communities, a variety of shopping and dining near the Houston Premium Outlets and is a short, 35-minute commute into downtown Houston. For more information, visit www.pvamu.edu. Your career opportunities with a “University of the First Class” begins here!

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