This position is located in the Bureau of Library and Information Services (DCOMM/INFORM) which is mandated to provide information services, and relevant and up-to-date information to ILO staff at headquarters and in the field, ILO constituents, researchers, practitioners, and the general public. The incumbent will be responsible for the execution of the mandate of the Client Services Section of the Bureau of Library and Information Services and is expected to contribute his or her expertise in addition to his or her management responsibilities. The Client Services Section is responsible for the delivery of the Bureau's direct services to clients inside and outside the ILO. The incumbent reports to the Chief of the Bureau.

The CERN Library [http://library.cern.ch] serves 2'500 scientific, technical and administrative CERN staff, 10'000 CERN users from 85 countries, and the worldwide High-Energy Physics (HEP) community. The Library supports their work with its highly specialised holdings: books, scientific journals and standards. These collections are available as physical media and increasingly in electronic form. In addition, with our 25 permanent and temporary staff, students and interns we are responsible for the content of CDS [http://cds.cern.ch], the CERN Institutional Repository including scientific manuscripts, an archive of CERN documents, educational multimedia content and much more; we collaborate with other HEP laboratories to launch INSPIRE [http://www.projecthepinspire.net], a next-generation digital library for HEP; we play a leading role in promoting Open Access publishing through the SCOAP3 project [http://scoap3.org].