Library Analytics, Metrics & Assessment Librarian

ELUNA Content Working Group; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

The UCLA Library seeks a collaborative, analytics-minded Librarian for Analytics, Metrics & Assessment. The role partners across units to define measures, design assessments, and develop dashboards informing planning and resource allocation.

The incumbent leads data-informed decision making, builds reproducible workflows, and supports staff capacity-building. With expertise in statistics, data analysis, and reporting, the LAMAL develops dashboards using Alma Analytics and Tableau, communicates

Qualifications

• Collaborative, service-oriented librarian who can translate questions into assessments.
• Strong data literacy with ability to design measures and dashboards.
• Experience communicating complex methods to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with library metrics, data dictionaries, and reporting practices.
• Project management and stakeholder coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Library leaders to translate questions into assessment plans and deliverables.
• Extract, clean, and analyze data from library systems and sources.
• Apply descriptive statistics and user-centered research to evaluate services and performance.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports using Alma Analytics and Tableau.
• Create shared metric definitions, data dictionaries and reproducible workflows.
• Manage analytics projects from intake to completion with clear communication.
• Improve data collection, quality, and workflows to support analysis.
• Coordinate reporting with donors and endowments where applicable.
• Present findings with narratives and visualizations to leadership.
• Provide trainings to strengthen staff data literacy and analytical skills.
• Possibly mentor student employees on analytics tasks.
• Engage in professional activities and support UC academic librarian duties.

Skills

Collaboration

Data analysis

Communication

Metrics development

Education

Library or information science background

Tools

Alma Analytics

Tableau

Job description

Department:Digital Strategies
Rank and Salary:Assistant Librarian to Associate Librarian ($74,752 - $105,696)
Position Availability:Immediately
Application deadline for first consideration: September 28, 2026

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The UCLA Library seeks a collaborative, service-oriented, and analytically skilled Library Analytics, Metrics & Assessment Librarian (LAMAL) to advance a culture of evidence-informed decision-making.

Reporting to the head of Library Analytics, Metrics & Assessment, the librarian will partner with units across the Library to define meaningful measures, design assessments, analyze and interpret data, and develop reliable dashboards and reports that inform planning, resource allocation, service improvement, and organizational learning. The LAMAL will have an opportunity to help shape shared analytics and assessment practices, data definitions, documentation, and project priorities. The LAMAL uses a variety of systems and tools like Alma Analytics, Tableau, and other Library and campus systems and communicates methods and findings clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

The incumbent is responsible for supporting and enabling consistent, targeted, data-informed decision-making in relation to the UCLA Library collections, workflows and services. The LAMAL leads in and contributes to expertise in statistics and data analysis, metrics development, and documentation. The incumbent manages analytics projects and completes work related to the development and maintenance of dashboards and reports for the Library, and supports LAMA and Library staff capacity-building through developing well-documented analytical resources.

The incumbent exercises the utmost discretion in managing sensitive information learned in the course of performing their LAMA duties and working on LAMA projects. Sensitive information includes but is not limited to staff and student records, financial data, strategic plans, proprietary information, and any other sensitive or non-public information learned during the course and scope of their work. The LAMAL ensures that sensitive information is properly safeguarded and follows all organizational policies and laws on data protection and privacy. This includes secure handling of physical and digital records and proper usage of IT systems.

Position Duties

1. Collaborates with Library leaders, departments, and project teams to translate strategic and operational questions into clear assessment plans, measures, data requirements, priorities, and deliverables.

2. Extracts, integrates, cleans, validates, and analyzes quantitative and qualitative data from Library systems and other sources, including the integrated library system, discovery and electronic-resource platforms, service and space-use systems, web analytics, surveys, and project-management tools.

3. Applies appropriate assessment and analytical methods, including descriptive statistics, benchmarking, survey design, workflow analysis, and user-centered research, to evaluate service outcomes, organizational performance, discovery, user experience, collections, and operational efficiency.

4. Develops, maintains, and enhances dashboards, recurring reports, ad hoc analyses, and shared data resources using Alma Analytics, Tableau, and related tools; establishes quality-assurance checks and ensures outputs are accurate, accessible, understandable, and appropriate for their intended audiences.

5. Creates and maintains shared metric definitions, data dictionaries, documentation, templates, and reproducible workflows to promote consistent, reliable, and sustainable reporting and assessment practices across the Library.

6. Manages assigned analytics and assessment projects from intake through completion, including scope, priorities, timelines, dependencies, stakeholder communication, and documentation, while contributing expertise in library processes, metrics development, and project-management practices.

7. Partners with Library technology and functional units to improve data collection, data quality, system configuration, and workflows that support reliable analysis, reporting, discovery, user experience, and operational effectiveness.

8. Coordinates or contributes to recurring institutional, consortia, and professional reporting and partners with Library Development to provide impact metrics and analyses that support donor identification and stewardship, endowed-fund reporting, and collection-related initiatives.

9. Synthesizes findings into concise narratives, visualizations, presentations, and actionable recommendations for Library leadership and other stakeholders, clearly communicating assumptions, limitations, and uncertainty.

10. Provides consultations, workshops, and training that strengthen staff capacity in assessment planning, data literacy, analytical tools, interpretation, workflow development, and responsible data use.

11. May provide project-based training, work direction, and supervision to student employees.

12. Participates in professional activities, scholarship, and University or community service appropriate to a UC academic librarian and performs other responsibilities as assigned.

13. May also work closely with Library Development to identify and steward donors, collections, and endowed gift funds.

Ability to work in a highly collaborative and inclusive environment, one that values and leverages the benefits of diverse perspectives.

Significant interest in education, outreach, mentoring, consulting, community-building, and/or formal communication activities.

Ability to embrace and utilize new or emerging technologies; skill in responding quickly to technology challenges; awareness of existing or emerging social media trends, the audiences who use them, and other protocols for use within the organization to allow for effective and timely communication to its stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be committed to engagement with and promotion of the UCLA Principles of Community and the True Bruin Value.

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce along with honoring unique experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

For your convenience, the complete posting can be viewed here: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11300