Hybrid Branch Manager at City of Norfolk, VA
City of Norfolk, VA · Norfolk, United States Of America · Hybrid
- Professional
- Office in Norfolk
About the Department
Position Duties
Essential functions include but are not limited to:
- Serves as part of the leadership team at NPL. Communicates and collaborates with all leadership and departments within the City of Norfolk and NPL.
- Upholds policies established by Library Administration
- Provide a positive, innovative, and collaborative work environment
- Supervises employee recruitment, hiring, training, scheduling and performance reviews.
- Directs the operations of the library including customer service, reference and readers’ advisory services, circulation, assisting in developing and implementing innovative programming, collection development.
- Monitors and oversees the acquisitions of equipment, programming supplies and vendors, and collection development.
- Oversees facility maintenance, custodial services and security services
- Ensure policies and procedures are implemented for staff and the community.
- Provides leadership and mentoring for staff development and retention.
- Develop, promote and cultivate partnerships through outreach and community engagement.
Minimum Qualifications
Work requires specialized knowledge in a professional or technical field. Work requires professional level of knowledge of a discipline which is acquired in a Masters degree in Library Science from an ALA accredited university.
Two years experience as a professional Librarian or equivalent professional experience including management experience.
The candidate should have extensive knowledge in customer service, branch procedures i.e. reference, circulation, collection development and programming.