Media Specialist
Listed on 2026-08-26
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Education / Teaching
Education Administration, Academic, Library, Training Instructor / Specialist
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Carrboro High School
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Job : 5895676
Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
Posted: Aug 20, 2026 7:01 PM (UTC)
Job Description
Job Title: Media Coordinator
Salary
Schedule:
State Salary Schedule; CHCCS Salary Page
Reports To: School Principal with support and guidance from the Director of Digital Learning and Library Services
Salary Grade: Instructional Support
Work Location:
FLSA Status: Exempt
Work Schedule: 10 Month Position Summary
The demands of providing a 21st century education dictate new roles for School Library Media Specialists. School Library Media Specialists are called on to have a larger role in their schools and school communities. School leadership is distributed among the staff and administration in order to bring consensus, common understandings, and shared ownership of the vision and purpose of the school.
School Library Media Specialists are valued for their leadership abilities throughout the school as well as in the media center. School Library Media Specialists help make the content engaging and meaningful to students' lives as they support teachers and facilitate the integration of curriculum and related projects across disciplines. In the school and the media center, School Library Media Specialists facilitate instruction, encouraging all students to use 21st century skills to discover how to learn, innovate, collaborate, and communicate their ideas.
They serve as facilitators of information skills development through the provision of professional development, coaching, mentoring, and co‑teaching activities. Their work includes supporting the development of authentic and structured assessment strategies to assure that students demonstrate understanding of the content taught and ability to apply the skills they have learned. School Library Media Specialists demonstrate the value of lifelong learning and instill a love of reading and learning in the students with whom they come into contact.
Duties Planning and implementing for teaching and learning:
- Assesses learning and information needs of students and staff
- Plans and works collaboratively with teachers
- Instructs students and staff in the effective use of ideas and information
- Incorporates information literacy into day-to-day instruction
- Advocates and promotes reading and lifelong learning
- Leads in the school's use of instructional technology to enhance learning
- Upgrades professional knowledge and skills on a continual basis
- Collaborates with the Instructional Technology Facilitator to provide leadership in the school's use of instructional technology resources and plan digital citizenship and information literacy lessons to enhance learning
- Works with the principal and school leadership team to provide flexible access to school library media center resources
- Creates and maintains an environment conducive to learning
- Encourages the widest possible use of print and electronic resources and services--within the school library media center, throughout the school, and through remote access
- Leads teachers, technology staff, and students in a collaborative process to select and evaluate resources that address curricular needs and learning goals of students and teachers in the information age
- Keeps accurate inventories of print, non print, and technology materials and equipment
- Works cooperatively with other libraries and agencies to share resources that enhance teaching and learning
- Implements an ongoing collection development and evaluation process, in collaboration with the Media and Technology Advisory Committee or School Leadership Team, that focuses on a variety of formats and resources to meet diverse learning needs.
- Adheres to copyright as well as other laws and guidelines pertaining to the distribution and use of resources
- Advocates the principles of intellectual freedom and ethical behavior
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