Employment Opportunity: Director, National Library of Medicine

Posted by liaison on November 10th, 2025 Posted in: Job Openings

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The Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), is recruiting for the position of Director, National Library of Medicine (NLM).

This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity for an exceptional leader to provide overall executive direction and scientific leadership to transform NLM into an epicenter for health-related data science and be a convening hub relevant to data science and analytics, and training at NIH. This will require strengthening or building partnerships within NIH, other Federal agencies, data and AI companies, and integration organizations. The Director, NLM serves as a principal advisor to the NIH Director concerning matters related to biomedical informatics, data science, and access to biomedical information in partnership with the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy and the Center for Information Technology. The Director, NLM will oversee NLM’s operation and management, including being responsible for the world’s preeminent biomedical library and for electronic information and data resources that are used billions of times each year by millions of people and thousands of computer systems worldwide. In exercising their responsibilities for program planning, implementation, and evaluation, the Director works with and seeks the advice of a wide range of groups within the scientific and information management communities, including investigators, institutions, scientific societies, libraries, and relevant commercial organizations. The Director also serves as the chairperson of the National Library of Medicine Board of Regents, the statutory external advisory body to NLM.

Applications must be received by 11:59 P.M. ET on November 21, 2025. For additional information about the position and to submit an application, please review the job posting. Questions may be directed to Ms. Emily Ellis by calling 301-451-0086.