Community Library Manager, Senior - Community Engagement

Community Library Manager, Senior
- Community Engagement

Broward County Board of County Commissioners is seeking qualified candidate(s) for the Community Library Manager, Senior
- Community Engagement within the Libraries Division. This position may be assigned to any location/section within the Libraries Division based on operational needs.

The purpose of this position is to manage, plan, supervise and coordinate the activities of a regional or flagship library location or a division-wide section.

Minimum

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires a Master's degree accredited by the American Library Association or an equivalent international degree related to library services.

Requires four (4) years professional library experience, including two (2) years managing a section/branch and two (2) years supervisory experience.

Special Certifications and Licenses:

None.

Preferences:

• Master's degree or higher in Education or related field that is separate but relevant from the Minimum Qualifications
• ALA Leadership Institute Certificate
• Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute Certificate
• Post Master Certificates in Librarianship
• Post Master's Certificate in Leadership
• Certificate in Library Leadership and Management
• Three (3) years Project Planning Experience
• Two (2) years experience designing large scale services for low-literacy, disadvantaged, marginalized, and special populations
• Two (2) years experience managing and/or developing a system-wide plan of service for adult programs and services
• One (1) year Grants Writing Experience

This position must be able to:

• demonstrate strong leadership skills
• maintain awareness and responsiveness to the changing needs in the community mentor staff
• the ability to make meaningful contributions to system-wide policies and procedures
• communicate effectively with staff at all levels of the organization, partners, and community-based organizations

Additionally, the Community Library Manager, Senior must be able to develop productive relationships and partnerships with organizations, that increase usage of library resources and develop new library customers. The functions of this position include but are not limited to:

• managing staff, volunteers, collections, and other resources of a regional library, flagship library, or division-wide section
• implementing projects and programs that further the Libraries Division's strategic objectives
• facilitating partner relations; supporting and cultivating outreach and engagement efforts
• ensuring a diverse and well utilized collection for the public and any partners
• ensuring team members are well trained in customer service, circulation, youth and adult information services
• contribute to the development and implementation of grant proposals to seek funding for library programs.

This position is regularly assigned complex administrative projects and will be assigned as manager in charge of a cluster of libraries in the absence of the Library Regional Manager.

Within the Community Engagement section, the functions of this position include but are not limited to: supervising and training staff, managing public service projects and programs, facilitating partnerships, coordinating, and cultivating outreach efforts, coordinating and supporting division-wide initiatives, reference services, community advisory, managing services and classes, and managing library innovation in the field of librarianship. This position is also responsible for serving as a liaison to county-wide community, literacy, partner organizations, projects and reviewing population needs.

This position will also perform related work as assigned and may be assigned to work at any library location based on operational needs.

Directly supervises librarians and is responsible for the implementation of services and the operations of the building.

Works under administrative supervision, developing and implementing programs within organizational policies and reports major activities to executive level administrators through conferences and reports.

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the job as necessary.

Ensures that regional library service or system-wide function is delivered as scheduled with sufficient staff and that building equipment is operational and library resources are available for customers; reports resource concerns (building, equipment, staffing,…