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Job Description

Position Summary This position reports to the Research and Collaboration (R&C) Program Directors and is responsible for managing the Institute's body of research materials and supporting the research strategy of the Institute. The Research Librarian should be comfortable managing all aspect of a corporate library: including collection development, reference and research, training, budgeting, and even some cataloging. The Research Librarian is responsible for understanding the landscape in which RMI works and developing the materials collection based on that knowledge. The Research Librarian maintains existing access to subscriptions, books, and other research resources and adds to the collection within a budget. He/she must share information about new research, publications, events, etc. to the R&C staff on a regular basis and must truly understand advances and changes in the field. RMI also has a knowledge management system in Microsoft SharePoint that requires updating and maintenance. The Research Librarian also acts as a knowledge manager and will work with the IT Projects Managers to ensure that the system continues to meet the needs of the Institute. Work is preformed under general supervision with considerable independence. Essential Duties and Responsibilities (may include but not limited to the following) * Collection Development: Maintain RMI's existing collection of subscriptions, books, and other resources and add to the collection based on a set budget. * Reference: Provide research support to R&C for staff on projects on an as-needed basis. Use open-access (EIA and other government sites) and subscription (ScienceDirect, EBSCO, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, IEEE, Hoovers) databases to conduct complex searches. * R&C Research Service: Follow new research and publications in RMI's sectors and industries on a daily basis. Share new publications with R&C staff, RMI alumni, and other RMI consortium members through an email newsletter. * Knowledge management and internal communications systems: Work with the IT Projects Manager to maintain RMI's knowledge management system in Microsoft SharePoint. Work with the Business Development Assistant to encourage effective internal communication within the organization through an internal newsletter, Google site, and Salesforce. * Digital Library: Update new publications in the digital library at www.rmi.org using Microsoft SharePoint and a custom CMS. * Subscriptions: Maintain access to dozens of subscriptions. Ensures that existing and new subscriptions meet the needs of R&C and fit within the library budget. * Materials processing: Process and catalog new books and materials using LibraryWorld. * Training: Train new staff on technology that supports their work. * Budgeting: Plan the library's budget and stay within the approved budget.

The Community

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit think-and-do tank that drives the efficient and restorative use of resources. Co-founded in 1982 by Amory Lovins, its Chairman and Chief Scientist, RMI has grown into a diverse and broad-based institute with approximately 75 full-time staff, an annual budget of $12 million, and a global reach and reputation. RMI is nonpartisan and trans-ideological, and does not lobby or litigate. Rather, it uses the tools and dynamism of business to achieve the Institute’s long view and public purpose. RMI’s strategic focus is shifting the U.S. from oil and coal to efficiency and renewables by 2050. RMI’s business book Reinventing Fire articulates that focus as equal parts vision, rigorous analysis, and solutions roadmap, demonstrating a future and heavily transformed energy landscape that supports a 158%-bigger 2050 U.S. economy at a $5 trillion net present value savings over business-as-usual without needing oil, coal, or nuclear energy. While Reinventing Fire chiefly focuses on the U.S., RMI has also undertaken targeted applications of its proposed solutions at a city, state, and regional level. In addition, RMI this year embarks on a similar Reinventing Fire study for China in partnership with three other major organizations as input for China’s next five-year plan. RMI employs rigorous research and analysis to develop breakthrough insights, integrating diverse sectors, disciplines, perspectives, audiences, and markets. Then, in partnership with collaborators, chiefly in the private sector, RMI tests and refines those ideas to prepare compelling solutions for adoption at scale, creating teachable cases and competitive pressure for emulation. This “snowball” strategy bridges iconic projects – such as the energy efficiency retrofit of New York City’s Empire State Building, or a novel factory or vehicle design—with accelerating deployment of solutions at scale in the four energy-using sectors of our economy: transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. In each of these sectors, RMI transforms design, busts barriers, and drives innovation in technology, policy, design, and business strategy. RMI is a nonprofit institution with multiple revenue sources, principally funded through major gifts from philanthropists based in the United States who are deeply aligned with the institute’s mission, vision and programmatic areas of focus. RMI also receives funding from US based and international foundations and funding organizations with missions and programs closely aligned with RMI. Between 20 and 30% of revenues come from mission-related collaboration services provided to corporations, state & federal governments and agencies and other private organizations. This “fee-for-service” revenue is essential to ensure our programs remain pragmatic and aligned with the needs of the institutions and organization with whom we collaborate to effect change in the world. RMI has two Colorado locations—Boulder and [Old] Snowmass. Within the next few years, that Snowmass office will relocate to a new, high performance office building and collaboration center being designed in the nearby town of Basalt, 18 miles from Aspen and 5.5 miles from the current location. For more information on Rocky Mountain Institute, please explore the rest of our site.

HR Info

Betsy Herzog bherzog@rmi.orgFollow link to application at http://www.rmi.org/Careers.