The Ontario Council of University Library (OCUL) is searching for an Executive Director. OCUL is Ontario’s academic library consortium, comprised of 21 libraries with a mission to “collaborate to enhance research supports and create rich learning environments for Ontario’s diverse and growing university population.”

Reporting to the Chair of the OCUL Executive Committee, the Executive Director (ED) oversees the organization’s staff, planning, administration, and operations budget of over $5 million annually, and a content licensing budget of over $21 million annually. On behalf of the consortium, the ED sets programs, services, and infrastructure, and oversees technology and service activities. The ED manages the OCUL staff team of seven, as well as a dotted line report from the leadership of the Scholars Portal unit of the University of Toronto Libraries, which provides core technology services to OCUL.

The Candidate Brief is attached to this blog post and we’ve linked to the job posting here: https://griffithgroup.ca/executive-director-ocul/.

Candidate Brief – OCUL – Executive Director (2022)