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About the role

Hennepin County Library is seeking a Library Director to shape the future of its services, buildings, and facilities. The Library Director will lead the Library's strategic direction by promoting lifelong learning, providing leadership in piloting new initiatives, envisioning future resources, expanding partnerships, and fostering an adaptive and diverse organization.

Responsibilities

• Promote lifelong learning among Hennepin County citizens.
• Provide leadership in piloting new initiatives in areas such as technology and outreach to immigrant and refugee populations.
• Envision how to best offer lifelong learning and reference resources to our citizens in light of rapid technological change.
• Expand partnerships with other county departments, the business community, and educational institutions.
• Foster an adaptive and diverse organization.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Library Science from an ALA-accredited program.
• Seven or more years of professional experience including at least five years in library management or the supervision of professional library staff.

Qualifications

• Customer Focus: Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of current, potential, and critical customers; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers; communicates customer focus to the organization.
• Integrity and Trust: Widely trusted; seen as a direct, truthful individual; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; does not misrepresent himself/herself for personal gain; establishes and maintains trusting and respectful relationships with staff.
• Create Vision & Purpose: Communicates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; inspires and motivates entire units or organizations; integrates library vision with the County’s vision.
• Relationship Management: Builds and motivates a strong leadership team; develops and maintains professional and library organization relationships on the metro, regional, state, and national levels; forges effective partnerships with labor organizations and values union involvement in decision-making where appropriate; develops and maintains relationships with numerous and diverse external stakeholders; establishes and maintains advisory board relationships; creates and maintains relationships with high-level elected officials.
• Organizational Management: Successfully manages large organizations and administers complex and changing programs and services.
• Diversity Management: Builds clear commitment and support for a diverse organization serving varied constituencies.
• Managerial Courage: Provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; takes negative action when necessary; links actions back to Vision and Mission; makes courageous decisions without always requiring consensus.
• Strategic Resource Management: Demonstrates ability to effectively manage a broad spectrum of resources such as human resource management, financial management, technology management, and innovation and knowledge management.

Skills

• Ability to communicate customer focus to the organization.
• Ability to establish and maintain trusting and respectful relationships with staff.
• Ability to communicate a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose.
• Ability to integrate library vision with the County’s vision.
• Ability to build and motivate a strong leadership team.
• Ability to forge effective partnerships with labor organizations and values union involvement in decision-making where appropriate.
• Ability to develop and maintain professional and library organization relationships on the metro, regional, state, and national levels.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with numerous and diverse external stakeholders.
• Ability to establish and maintain advisory board relationships.
• Ability to create and maintain relationships with high-level elected officials.
• Ability to successfully manage large organizations and administer complex and changing programs and services.
• Ability to build clear commitment and support for a diverse organization serving varied constituencies.
• Ability to provide current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others.
• Ability to take negative action when necessary.
• Ability to link actions back to Vision and Mission.
• Ability to make courageous decisions without always requiring consensus.
• Ability to demonstrate ability to effectively manage a broad spectrum of resources such as human resource management, financial management, technology management, and innovation and knowledge management.

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package is provided. The salary range for this position is $115,296 to $144,708. By state statute, the Library Director pay range maximum is currently capped at $144,708. Hennepin County is requesting an exception to this statute to increase the pay range maximum to $160,000.