CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a community-governed archive cooperative, has called for applications from eligible candidates for the post of Executive Director. CLOCKSS is a global nonprofit, community-governed archive that preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term through a geo-physical and geo-political distributed network of archive nodes.
The Executive Director will report to a Board made up of major scholarly publishers and university libraries from around the world. He/She will be expected to grow the organisation as a major global scholarly archive and a valuable collaborative community of scholarly publishers and academic libraries. This position requires an individual with strengths in all aspects of management including technical, operational, financial, sales, marketing, and business development among others. As Executive Director, the selected candidate will enjoy flexible schedule and location, and the opportunity to take a highly visible leadership role in the scholarly community.
Candidates applying before October 15, 2010, will receive priority. All applications should be mailed to Victoria Reich, CLOCKSS Board Secretary, at vreich@stanford.edu.
More information on job description and application is available online at http://www.clockss.org/clockss/ExecutiveDirector.
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