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Library Director I - King William County, VA

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$60,000.00/yr - $65,000.00/yr

The Library Director I supports the LS&S mission, vision, and values through exceptional leadership and dedicated customer focus. The Library Director I ensures contract requirements are met in a single-location library system. The Library Director I will lead a team of library staff members committed to creating a thriving library in the heart of their community. The Library Director I will be responsible for building, maintaining, and nurturing communications with local official(s) and managing the customer relationship in partnership with the VP of Library Operations.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages with integrity, honesty, and knowledge to promote the culture, values, and mission of LS&S and creates thriving libraries in the heart of our communities.
• Evaluate library environments and key operational indicators to identify problems, concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
• Reports to the VP of Library Operations and prepares a written agenda before weekly ZOOM meetings.
• Coaches library staff to help achieve operational goals.
• Monitors and manages staffing levels.
• Develops the library team to deliver excellent customer service and patron experiences.
• Evaluate and support the performance of library staff.
• Implements action plans that meet operational and organizational objectives.
• Keeps current with library trends, issues, and technology, as well as political, economic, and demographic issues that may affect library services and advanced programming.
• Plans and executes local, regional, and company initiatives to achieve both operational excellence and business results; follows up consistently to ensure accountability to plans.
• Utilizes existing tools and best practices to ensure effective library operations.
• Utilizes and helps Library staff utilize management information tools and analyzes financial reports and other library-related data (usage, demographics, trends, etc.) to identify and address library system trends and issues.
• Oversee the selection, acquisition, and processing of library materials to meet public needs within the structure of library selection policies and budgetary limitations.
• Responsible for the local operations communications with the customer relationship (city/county officials, governing boards, library boards).
• Regularly solicit client, other stakeholder, and patron feedback to understand client needs and the needs of the local community.
• Establish a positive, healthy, and safe work environment following all appropriate legislation and regulations.
• Oversee the implementation of the human resources policies, procedures, and practices.
• Know, understand, and administer the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights, Freedom to Read Statement, and Freedom to View Statement, recognizing that freedom of access is a fundamental tenet of a public library.
• Follow all legal and policy requirements related to patron privacy and custodianship of patron records.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• MLIS degree is required.
• Three years of supervisory experience is preferred.
• Three years of progressively responsible library managerial experience and/or administrative functions of a library or equivalent knowledge preferred.
• Experience analyzing and applying financial reports and library-related data (usage, demographics, trends, etc.).
• Basic understanding of programming and financial management.
• Experience in a role that requires frequent interaction with patrons, fulfilling the requests of patrons, and responsibility for addressing patron issues, questions, and suggestions.
• The Library Director should demonstrate competence in all of the following:
• Adaptability: Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, versatile, and/or tolerant in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
• Demonstrate ethical conduct with integrity and honesty: It is expected to understand ethical principles and business practices, ensuring that your actions and those of others align with these standards and reflect the organization's core values.
• Build Relationships: To achieve the organization's goals, establish and maintain positive working relationships with others internally and externally.
• Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen, and write thoroughly and timely, using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
• Creativity/Innovation: Develop new and unique ways to improve the operations of the library and to create new opportunities.
• Focus on Client Needs: Anticipate, understand, and respond to the needs of internal and external clients to meet or exceed their expectations within the organizational parameters.
• Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Lead: Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
• Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency, and risks, and make clear decisions that are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
• Organize: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress toward goals, and track details, data, information, and activities.
• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create and implement action plans, and evaluate the process and results.
• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
• Think Strategically: Assess options and actions based on trends and conditions in the environment and the vision and values of the organization.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Strategy/Planning, Management, and Project Management

Industries

Libraries