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Virtual Live Learning Services Coordinator, Philadelphia

Yoh , Philadelphia, PA  
Yoh has a contract opportunity for a Virtual Live Learning Services Coordinator to join our client, SAP America located in Philadelphia, PA.
Company Overview:
SAP was founded in 1972 and is today one of the world's largest independent business software providers and one of the three largest independent software companies based on market capitalization.
Job Overview
KPS is a global Shared Service belonging to the SAP Global Field Organization that meets the educational needs of customers, partners, and employees by providing innovative and effective knowledge transfer products and services. As part of the global Learning Management Department of KPS the Virtual Live Learning Services Team provides support during the setup, delivery and publishing of virtual live expert sessions and virtual classroom training. The team is acting globally in close collaboration with the KPS Training Systems team as well as the Media Production and local Learning Management Teams (EMEA, APJ and NA).
Job Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the complete process of Virtual Live Learning Sessions from set-up, execution, follow-up and posting recorded sessions.
- Liaise with and support the internal customers from SAP and SAP vendors to ensure successful Virtual Live Learning Sessions.
- Continuously help to improve the design, development and use of media in SAP's knowledge transfer products.
- Help with Classroom Training needs from set-up, execution and follow-up.

Job Qualifications:

- 3 - 5 years; nice to have: in a world-wide environment
- Proficient in a wide variety of high-tech media production tools
- MS Office tool; Adobe tools (Audition, Connect); Knowledge of HTML; Camtasia; editing audio/video

Discover all that's possible with Yoh. Apply now.
Visit our company website to learn more about Yoh.
Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

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See: http://publicboard.libgig.com/job/virtual-live-learning-services-coordinator-philadelphia-pa-yoh-b8e862cd82/?d=1&source=rss_page

Director of Prospect Research, Philadelphia

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA 19104
Reporting to the AVP, Development Operations, the Director of Prospect Research will lead the prospect research team. This position is responsible for research policy and procedures, and conducting and supervising relationship-based development research in order to support the Foundation’s fundraising goals. The successful candidate will be responsible for generating prospect leads, and will work closely with Major Gifts and Planned Giving programs and others engaged in seeking significant gift support on behalf of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The Director will play a key role in the refinement and growth of the Foundation’s donor pool, and will have oversight of prospect screening and information management. This person will participate in prospect strategy meetings of the Major Gifts team. The Director will supervise three staff and the day-to-day operations of the prospect research program.

Prospect Research: Leads the efforts to research and analyze new and existing donors and prospects for major gift cultivation and solicitation through review of and analysis of media, financial documents, files, databases, online information systems and other resources. Instructs and educates development staff in the methodology and resources of prospect research and management. Develops and implements policies, procedures, standards, templates, research request and tracking system, and rating formulas related to prospect research.
Prospect Screening: Leads the implementation of prospect screening and data mining projects in order to maximize the impact of data/information. Manages and provides leadership for the evaluation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the Center’s prospect management system; directs use of data modeling and screening results for all programs, including Major Gifts and Planned Giving.
Information Management: Coordinates the development of concise and relevant prospect profiles summarizing key personal and financial information pertaining to these individuals. Assures accurate and timely records and reports are kept on all contacts and meetings with donors and prospects. Reviews activity reports to ensure appropriate prospect coding activity. Works closely with Development Services team on records management and tracking systems. Manages tools necessary to maintain and monitor an informative prospect pipeline that relates directly to the goals of the development team; provides relevant information and analysis to the Major Gifts team. Establishes guidelines and policies for the accurate and ethical management of all donor and prospect information.
Prospect Assignment: Works closely with the Executive Director of Development for Clinical Support to assist in assigning prospects to gift officer portfolios and monitors related qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities. Participates in prospect strategy meetings of the Major Gifts and Planned Giving team.
Supervision: Hires, trains, and supervises research staff, and develops appropriate research policies, procedures and standards.
Minimum of seven (7) years of increasingly responsible positions in development with significant experience in complex analytical prospect research and management required.
Demonstrated mastery in the collection, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of information.
Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in process analysis, and project management, as well as demonstrated ability to share these with others through mentoring and collaboration.
Experience managing a staff and success within achieving a matrix reporting relationship.
Record of initiative, problem solving and adaptability; strong analytical skills required, including expertise in modeling and analysis of data.
Proven success as a creative thinker with the ability to articulate and implement programmatic visions.
Superior communication skills, to express the importance and urgency of the mission of key internal and external constituencies in writing, on the phone and in personal meetings.
Ability to work both independently and as a team member.
Adhere to all legal privacy requirements and ethical standards upheld by regulatory bodies and professional organizations.
Current knowledge of library science as well as commercially available research systems.
Understanding and demonstrated competencies in the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA) skills are highly desirable.
Raiser's Edge database experience is highly desirable, as is the ability to use a variety of reporting and publishing tools and strong familiarity with relational databases.
Bachelor's degree required.

All CHOP employees who work in a patient building or who provide patient care are required to receive an annual influenza vaccine unless they are granted a medical or religious exemption.
See: https://www.chop.edu.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?FuseAction=mExternal.showJob&rid=23181

Taxonomist, New York

A large children’s publishing and media company is currently seeking a Taxonomist to support a project that includes a site rebuild, content migration, and tagging. This is a full-time temporary position extending through May 31, 2011 with potential for extension.

Job Description:
The Taxonomist supports the refinement, and application of taxonomies and thesauri used to support content description, search, and navigation. Work with the senior taxonomist, search and SEO teams, and editors across multiple site channels to refine the existing taxonomies and thesauri, documenting the impact of possible changes. Coordinate cross-channel taxonomy requirements. Communicate with taxonomy team on site taxonomy issues. Assist with the creation of tagging standards and tagging documentation to be used by editorial staff for a wide range of content types. Assist in evaluation of tagging strategies and workflows. Develop browse structures to be used for site navigation. Assist in metadata attribute definition, mapping and modeling. 

Preferred Qualifications:
• Demonstrated success in developing or managing site taxonomies
• Experience with thesaurus construction and maintenance
• Experience creating metadata models or schema
• Experience with taxonomy management tools, preferably Data Harmony suite
• Experience with content management systems, preferably Drupal
• Familiarity with web content management, information architecture, user experience, SEO, faceted classification, and search
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Microsoft Excel skills
• Background in education or children’s publishing and media is a plus

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 7 years experience in information architecture, knowledge management or libraries
• Minimum 5 years experience in taxonomy development and management

For consideration, please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to rdaly@scholastic.com.

Corporate Licensing Manager, New York

Mid to Senior Level, Full Time, Sales, Publishing, Business Development
Springer Science+Business Media LLC., NEW YORK, New York
 
Introducing ourselves
Springer Science+Business Media is one of the most prestigious international scientific publishers of books, journals, and electronic media today, with subsidiaries and representatives all over the world. Our publications range from medicine to all fields of life sciences, and from mathematics to engineering. Wherever scientific research is carried out, highly qualified experts count themselves among Springer's authors, including a large number of Nobel prize winners. Around 5,000 people are employed by the Springer Group worldwide.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Life and AD&D
- 401(k)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit Accounts
- Tuition Assistance
- Summer Hours

Job duties

The Corporate Licensing Manager works closely with the Director to sell Springer's eJournal, eBook, and other information products to corporate libraries and research organizations. The position requires both proactive development of new revenue opportunities and key account management in defined corporate vertical markets.

Strong knowledge of online journal and book publishing in the Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) field preferred
Experience with solution-based, consultative selling to corporate libraries or research organizations, preferably in the tech, engineering, petrochemical, pharma, or hospital markets
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to provide market analyses, product ROI analyses, and analyses on advanced usage metrics
Ability to build financial models for forecasts, budget etc
Experience presenting effectively to peers, management and clients
Experience in negotiating multi-site/consortia contracts and creating customized proposals
Project management skills
Proven new sales development skills
Detail oriented with strong organizational skills

Job requirements

Pursue new business growth in the corporate R&D vertical markets
Create and implement a sales plan to meet and exceed annual sales targets for multiple electronic information products
Working on contract proposals for existing customers and new clients
Researching and recommending new markets/customers
Proactively developing and recommending innovative ideas to build new business opportunities
Produce sales/business reports and internal summary reports
Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required
Other related duties as needed

Please apply using our online application system.

Visit our web site at www.springer.com.

We regret that we are unable to respond to each resume. Only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
 
See: http://springer-career-com.becruiter.net/jobagent/search/job_details.aspx?jobid=63166

Corporate Licensing Associate, New York

Mid to Senior Level, Full Time, Sales, Publishing, Business Development
Springer Science+Business Media LLC., NEW YORK, New York
 
Introducing ourselves
Springer Science+Business Media is one of the most prestigious international scientific publishers of books, journals, and electronic media today, with subsidiaries and representatives all over the world. Our publications range from medicine to all fields of life sciences, and from mathematics to engineering. Wherever scientific research is carried out, highly qualified experts count themselves among Springer's authors, including a large number of Nobel prize winners. Around 5,000 people are employed by the Springer Group worldwide.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Life and AD&D
- 401(k)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit Accounts
- Tuition Assistance
- Summer Hours

Job duties

The Corporate Licensing Associate works closely with the Director and the corporate sales team to provide administrative support to Springer's eJournal, eBook, and other information product sales to corporate libraries and research organizations. The position includes pre-sales support and administrative responsibilities.

Specific responsibilities:

Providing sales/admin support for the corporate sales team
Prepare eProduct renewal proposals and manage annual license renewal process for multiple sales managers
Manage contracts and procurement workflows between customers and Springer's accounting, legal, and helpdesk departments
Developing strategic relationships with internal departments
Devising and implementing strategy to help Licensing/Account Managers be more effective and efficient in their sales process
Maintain high level customer contact through phone and email
Track activities and call reports in our CRM system, Salesforce
Other related duties as needed

Job requirements

Bachelor's degree with minimum of 1-2 years prior work experience preferably work in the corporate, government or academic sectors
An understanding of the STM market and knowledge of journal and multi-site licensing is a plus
Must be well organized, highly motivated, detail oriented, flexible and able to work independently and as part of a team
Strong computer skills -- MS Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint a must
Ability to work with numerous individuals on a daily basis to resolve issues, work on sales campaigns, and identify creative solutions
Excellent project management, time management, and prioritization skills
Demonstrate initiative and follow-up skills
Understanding on how to maintain and build lasting business relationships with customers and colleagues
Confident and polished presenter with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with corporate libraries or research organizations in the tech, engineering, petrochemical, pharma, or hospital markets preferred
Ability to travel domestically and internationally, as required
Bilingual (Spanish & English) is strongly preferred

Please apply using our online application system.

Visit our web site at www.springer.com.

We regret that we are unable to respond to each resume. Only those individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
 
See: http://springer-career-com.becruiter.net/jobagent/search/job_details.aspx?jobid=63168

WEB DESIGNER

Position Number 11-000335  
Posting Date 03/30/2011
Department Technical and Automated Services
Campus Busch
Salary Grade 04 
Retirement System ABP 
Funding State funded
Work Week 37.5 hrs non-exempt
Job Description Reports to the Rutgers University Libraries IT Manager (Director of Integrated Information Systems (IIS)). Designs, develops, tests, and implements online solutions to support digital library initiatives following an established timeline. Works on multiple programming projects simultaneously, while maintaining a high level of work and meeting project deadlines. Designs and develops visual look-and-feel for webpages, mobile applications, and other online communication channels. Creates user interfaces for web applications based on accessibility and usability standards. Analyzes, validates, and improves existing solutions under the direction of the supervisor. Creates and updates documentation associated with programming projects that can be shared with other software designers and system administrators. Participates in testing of development projects, and actively participates in departmental, team, and committee meetings by sharing knowledge, learning from others, and training.
Job Requirements Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, web design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience, and one to two years experience in web design, information architecture, and web development technologies (AJAX, HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, and CSS; PHP) is required; three years or more preferred. Experience developing websites using the Drupal content management system is required; MySQL experience preferred. Experience with web-based search technologies and search engine optimization and .NET experience is preferred. Prefer experience with web services and web development frameworks, knowledge and experience with revision control systems, experience with developing software on multiple platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux); experience with major video streaming formats and knowledge of SOAP and REST-based protocols, and knowledge of implementing and interacting with SOAP and REST-based protocol.
See: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/jobs/JobDetail.aspx?pst_num=11-000335

LIBRARY ASSOCIATE II

(Represented by URA-AFT)
Position Number 11-000332  
Posting Date 03/29/2011
Department Technical and Automated Services
Campus Busch
Salary Grade 03 
Retirement System ABP 
Funding State funded
Work Week 37.5 hrs non-exempt
Job Description Reports to the Head, Distributed Technical Services. Provides coordination for all receiving processes for all print subscriptions for Rutgers University Libraries and shares in the responsibility of electronic subscription management, analyzing print subscriptions for duplication with online subscriptions and determining when print subscriptions should be migrated to online. Works with receiving staff regarding the resolution of routine receiving issues and investigates and resolves complex receiving issues. Compiles usage and subscriptions statistics and collects evaluation criteria for print and online resources. Develops tools to communicate usage and cost analysis for collection development. As a member of the Serials Team, performs electronic subscription investigation and ordering for databases and journals.
Job Requirements Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience acquired in a specialized area or in a specialized library function with an understanding of the nature and workflow of electronic resources. Requires at least three years of library experience. Requires experience working with bibliographic utilities, as well as experience with an integrated library system. Also requires computer literacy with proficiency in Word and Excel. Requires ability to work in a team environment and very strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Special Conditions None
See: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/jobs/JobDetail.aspx?pst_num=11-000332

Reference Librarian, New York

Description
Summary

Provides outstanding research and reference assistant to lawyers and legal assistants, dealing with complex legal issues.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Provides reference & research assistance to all library clients
Assists legal staff with all aspects of research by consulting print, electronic & outside sources
Supports lawyers in utilizing the collection of desktop research tools that are available
Arranges interlibrary loans
Education and/or Experience

MLS required
Law library experience preferred
Superior interpersonal, communication, and prioritization skills to effectively interface with others in a fast paced, challenging environment
Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 
See: https://tbe.taleo.net/NA9/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=SULLCROM&cws=1&rid=563

Reference and Instruction Librarian, New York

Requisition Number:  0002040   
Field(s) of Specialization:    
Position Title:  Reference and Instruction Librarian   
Department:  CUMC Library (580)   
Department Number:  580   
Location:  Medical Center   
Summary Description:  Looking for an enthusiastic and energetic individual to join Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)'s Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library (HSL)'s Reference and Instruction team of medical librarians.

The reference and instruction librarian will primarily participate in the delivery and promotion of HSL's reference services (staffing the reference desk, answering telephone and email inquiries, supporting digital reference initiatives, performing mediated searches and reference consultations, developing subject guides/finding aids, etc) and in HSL's library liaison program. The reference and instruction librarian will also participate in HSL's education program, providing library instruction both in group and one-on-one settings, and assisting with the development of instructional materials to support teaching. The reference and instruction librarian will be responsible for gathering reference statistics and contributing to continual efforts to evaluate HSL services and quantify/demonstrate the value of the library to the CUMC campus.   
School/Institute/Unit:  Libraries   
Minimum Degree Required:  MLS   
Minimum Qualifications:

All applicants MUST meet these minimum qualifications to be considered for the position.  Candidate must have job-related experience and specialized skills as needed. Expertise in searching MEDLINE/PubMed; demonstrated success/enjoyment in teaching adult learners; demonstrated enthusiasm for learning about and adopting new technologies; knowledge of bibliographic citation management software tools; experience building relationships/partnerships with staff, students, faculty in a medical/academic environment; interest in contributing to medical/academic librarianship scholarly research; familiarity with principles of information management (file naming conventions, metadata standards, etc) and trends in scholarly communication.   
Preferred Qualifications:  Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Team player   
Additional Information:    
Posting Date:  03-28-2011   
Closing Date:  Open Until Filled 
Special Instructions to Applicants:    
Proposed Start Date:  05-02-2011   
EEO Statement  Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.   
Date Review Begins    
Quicklink for Posting:  academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=54529

Senior Development Officer, Prospect Management and Research, New York

Wildlife Conservation Society , Bronx, NY  
The Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered at the Bronx Zoo, is seeking a full time Senior Development Officer of Prospect Management and Research. The Senior Development Officer of Prospect Management and Research will collaborate and work closely with Director, Strategic Planning and Operations to develop, direct, and coordinate the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) prospect management and research program. The position will create a comprehensive and proactive system to compile research – aimed at generating and qualifying major gift prospects for unrestricted and restricted support across all WCS program areas, to meet the strategic fund-raising goals of the division. The position will report to the Director, Strategic Planning and Operations and will work closely with the staff of the Strategic Planning and Operations team, as well as oversee and manage the Research department. In collaboration with the Senior Development Officer of Operations, they will provide oversight and management of the donor database and facilitate systems, analysis and reports.

Qualifications:

• Five or more years experience as a prospect researcher in a development department
• Masters Degree preferred, Bachelor's required
• Leadership skills and drive for working in a complex, multi-unit, and fast-paced scientific and/or cultural environment
• Expert knowledge of diverse research tools, including Lexis-Nexis and other specialized fee-based and free on-line resources
• Significant experience with Raiser’s Edge or similar development database
• Knowledge of, and ability to, interpret financial data and real-estate assessment sources
• Strong familiarity with New York and Global donor communities
• Proven ability to identify new sources of funding
• Superb written and verbal communication skills and the professional maturity to build alliances with external and internal constituencies
• Excellent computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
• Ability to work independently and also to collaborate with a large fundraising staff;
• Experience managing staff
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Interest in WCS’s mission
• Curiosity, excellent judgment and discretion

See: https://sh.webhire.com/jobcart/907/search.aspx
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