Youth Services Manager Job Appleton area,Wisconsin USA,Education / Teaching

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Mead Public Library is seeking an innovative and collaborative leader to guide our Youth Services department. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in youth and teen services, a passion for community engagement, and proven experience in staff and project management. We're looking for someone with a clear, inspiring vision for how the library can spark curiosity, support learning, and create welcoming spaces for young people and families throughout Sheboygan.

The Mead Public Library provides quality services, resources, and lifelong learning opportunities to meet the needs and interests of our diverse community. The function of the Mead Public Library is to serve our customers in a way that establishes a relationship of mutual gratitude – our gratitude for our customers’ patronage, and our customers’ gratitude for the quality and value they receive.

Mead Public Library's Youth Services department serves as a vital community hub for early literacy, learning, and family engagement, providing children, teens, and caregivers with high-quality programs, curated collections, and welcoming spaces that spark curiosity and a lifelong love of reading.

The Youth Services Manager provides forward-thinking leadership for this department, overseeing staff supervision, programming, and collection development for children and teens while ensuring the department's goals align with the mission, vision, and strategic priorities of Mead Public Library. This position works collaboratively across the library to support staff, enforce library policy consistently and fairly, and champion a progressive, innovative vision for youth services that reflects best practices in early literacy, child development, and community engagement.

It is imperative job duties are performed with respect, integrity, objectivity, and in the best interest of the City. This position requires discretion while working with the public and a high level of professional judgment. All City employees are expected to be honest and truthful at all times.

This full-time position typically works Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm, with rotating evening and Saturday shifts.
Anticipated start date is after 1/1/2027.

Essential Responsibilities

Supervise assigned Youth & Teen Services staff, including librarians, paraprofessionals, and part-time staff. Schedule, assign work, coach performance, and provide ongoing guidance and feedback to staff.

Participate in recruitment, onboarding, training, and evaluation of assigned staff; prepare performance appraisals and support corrective action processes in coordination with the Deputy Director and Human Resources.

Direct the planning, design, and evaluation of programming and services for children (birth–age 12) and teens, ensuring offerings are research-based, developmentally appropriate, and responsive to community needs.

Oversee collection development for youth and teen materials across all formats, including selection, weeding, budgeting, and ensuring the collection reflects diverse, inclusive, and current community interests.

Set and communicate a progressive, forward-thinking vision for the Youth & Teen Services department that anticipates emerging trends in early literacy, digital learning, and family engagement.

Align department goals, programming, and services with the mission, vision, and strategic plan of Mead Public Library and the City of Sheboygan.

Partner with members of the library’s leadership team to interpret, apply, and consistently enforce library policy across all service points.

Build and sustain partnerships with schools, early childhood organizations, social service agencies, and community partners to extend the library's impact on literacy and school readiness.

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Youth Services Manager

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