Senior Librarian

Key Responsibilities

• Assists patrons in the use of the Library and ensures top quality user experiences.
• Plans, manages and administers professional library services.
• Recruits, selects, schedules and trains full time professional librarians, para-professional librarians, hourly employees and volunteers.
• Supervises the work of staff engaged in providing various library services.
• Promotes libraries, library services and library programs.
• Manages programming; schedules, plans and publicizes programs and events.
• Maintains an active role in the community, including schools, community groups, civic and other governmental agencies to promote library and city services.
• Manages the budgeting for a program, functional or specialized area or division.
• Prompts reports based on the collection and analysis of relevant data for library activity.
• Promotes and participates in library projects.
• Leads and participates on committees and teams.
• Responds to challenging situations and emergencies.
• Schedules, attends and/or presents training and education seminars, workshops and classes, for library-and city-related skills.
• May represent the service area or the library at meetings of library, city, community and professional associations.
• Pursues continued professional and Library-wide development.

Qualifications

• A detailed list of our benefits can be found here: Carlsbad Benefits
• A Masters of Library Science or a Masters of Library and Information Systems from an American Library Association Accredited library school.
• Three years of professional library work experience is required to qualify for the Senior Librarian level, including a minimum of two years of prior library supervisory experience.