Posted to IASSIST on: 2026-07-22
Employer: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Employer URL: https://unc.edu/
Description
Health Research Intelligence Coordinator
The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks a team-oriented and engaged Health Research Intelligence Coordinator to join our staff.
Reporting to the Head of Health Academic Research Engagement, the Health Research Intelligence Coordinator conducts research intelligence analyses and contributes to complex or strategic projects requiring advanced methodological or data expertise. The coordinator oversees workflows, standards, documentation, and quality assurance, and collaborates with partners across the Health Sciences Library and University Library to align research intelligence activities, support shared infrastructure, and advance coordinated research support services. The Health Research Intelligence Coordinator manages the operations and services of the Health Research Intelligence unit within the Health Academic and Research Engagement department, ensuring the effective delivery of research impact assessments, collaboration and network analyses, and topic and trend analyses.
The coordinator consults with faculty, research groups, departments, institutes, and other campus units to address questions related to research impact, collaboration patterns, and publication or output tracking. The role helps researchers and administrators communicate the influence of their work to audiences such as funders, institutional leaders, and promotion and tenure committees. The coordinator also provides training and guidance on research metrics, with a focus on responsible and contextualized use of bibliometric indicators. In addition, the coordinator collaborates closely with related units across the University Library—such as scholarly communications, data services, and research information management teams—to align research impact services and support coordinated, campus‑wide research intelligence activities.
Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
The University and The Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the country’s oldest state university. UNC Chapel Hill has an enrollment of approximately 29,000 students, employs more than 3,500 members of the faculty, and offers 69 doctoral degrees as well as professional degrees in medicine, social work, information science, and law.
The University Library aspires to be an intellectual and creative partner in the mission of the University, the success of every Tar Heel, and the vitality of our state.
The largest academic research library in the southeastern United States, the University Library at UNC-Chapel Hill includes eight library locations, 10 million volumes, over 250 employees, and more than 180 student workers and hosts 2 million visitors annually.
The University Library serves campus and broader communities that reflect the socioeconomic, ethnic, and religious diversity of the state of North Carolina, and we maintain a welcoming, inclusive, and open educational and workplace climate for all. We strive to create an environment of respect and collaboration where vision and innovation can flourish. Learn more about our Strategic Framework — including our pillars, values, and priorities — by visiting https://library.unc.edu/about/strategic-framework/.
The Region
The Triangle region is one of the most desirable places to live and work in North America and offers its residents a wide array of recreational, cultural, and intellectual activities. The mountains or the seashore are less than a half day’s drive from Chapel Hill.
Primary Responsibilities
Principal responsibilities include:
- Provide leadership for the Health Research Intelligence unit, including supervising unit staff, setting priorities, and ensuring coordinated delivery of services.
- Coordinate research intelligence activities across the Health Sciences Library and related University Library units, aligning workflows, standards, and messaging for campus-facing services.
- Conduct bibliometric and research impact analyses, including citation analysis, benchmarking, collaboration network analysis, and topic or trend analysis for complex or strategic projects.
- Prepare clear reports, visualizations, dashboards, and narrative summaries that contextualize findings for non‑technical audiences such as administrators, faculty, and campus partners.
- Provide advanced consultations on research impact, publication tracking, researcher identity management, collaboration patterns, and responsible metrics.
- Design and deliver workshops or instructional sessions on bibliometric tools, research impact methods, publication data sources, and related analytical techniques.
- Lead or contribute to workflow optimization projects, including automation and AI-assisted approaches for data preparation, analysis, and metadata enhancement.
- Monitor developments in bibliometrics, research assessment, responsible metrics, research information management, and analytics tools, and guide the unit in adopting emerging best practices.
- Participate in and represent the unit within library, campus, and professional committees or communities of practice related to research intelligence, analytics, and research support services.
Required Qualifications, Competencies & Experience
- Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library/information science program or an advanced degree in a related field such as public health, biomedical informatics, or data science.
- Three or more years of experience working in an academic, library, or research setting.
- One or more years of leadership or supervisory experience in an academic, library, or research setting, including mentoring staff or overseeing project teams.
- Demonstrated experience conducting bibliometric or research impact analysis using publication, citation, or research administration data.
- Demonstrated project management experience including coordinating team activities, project timelines, or shared service workflows in a collaborative academic or research environment.
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with varied user communities, including students, faculty, researchers, colleagues, and community members.
- Excellent oral, written, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience planning, designing, and delivering workshops or training sessions, with the ability to align instructional content with unit goals and user needs.
- Experience producing data visualizations or analytic summaries for non-technical audiences.
- Experience conducting advanced or large‑scale bibliometric analyses, collaboration network analyses, or research intelligence studies using tools such as VOSviewer, Gephi, or NetworkX.
- Experience developing dashboards or interactive visualizations using Tableau, Power BI, Shiny, Plotly, or similar tools.
- Experience working with research information management systems or publication data workflows, including author disambiguation and affiliation/department mapping.
- Demonstrated experience establishing or improving workflows, standards, documentation practices, or quality assurance processes for library, academic, or research projects.
- Experience working collaboratively across multiple library units or administrative offices, particularly in roles requiring coordination of shared services, data flows, or communication strategies.
- Familiarity with responsible metrics frameworks such as the Leiden Manifesto, DORA, or the Metric Tide, and experience operationalizing these principles in analytic products or instructional materials.
- Experience leading or contributing to campus-level strategic planning, assessment initiatives, or research support committees.
- Education or work experience in a health discipline.
Salary & Benefits
This is a twelve-month, non-faculty academic librarian appointment. Standard state benefits include annual leave, sick leave, and State or optional retirement. The salary range for the Health Research Intelligence Coordinator position begins at $54,249. The University Library intends to hire at a minimum of $82,000, with a salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.
This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement to include a partially remote work location, consistent with System Office policy. UNC Chapel Hill employees are generally required to reside within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned duty station.
Salary
Minimum $82,000
Job Location
Chapel Hill, NC
More info/apply URL: https://library.unc.edu/job-postings/health-research-intelligence-coordinator/
Archived on: 2026-07-31