Librarian III- Branch Manager
Job Description:
Virginia Beach Public Library is seeking a dynamic innovative, energetic, and creative professional with a commitment to enriching the life of our community and creating a climate of lifelong learning to join us and work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment, providing quality services for all Virginia Beach residents.
The selected candidate will the have the following responsibilities:
• Supervises librarians and/or paraprofessional staff, document performance, and conduct annual employee evaluations to provide feedback, identify training needs and set goals for staff.
• Identifies training needs and opportunities and develops training programs collaboratively in order to provide staff with the skills to deliver quality service.
• Participates in a team process to develop the criteria to interview, evaluates and selects candidates in order to hire the best applicant(s); and assists in the preparation of work schedules in order to maintain optimum staffing at all times to provide quality customer service.
• Leads staff meetings and discussions to explore continued improvement opportunities, solicits feedback, promotes teamwork, and provides training.
• Researches and analyzes a variety of information, including the identification of outside funding sources, to create a budget to seek adequate funding for agency operations; and directs the expenditure of funds and evaluates the budget to ensure resources are used effectively.
• Serves as building manager or division coordinator to ensure the safety, security, and comfort of internal and external customers.
• Documents accident, personnel, and incident reports to comply with City, State, and Federal guidelines.
• Understands and explains library policies and procedures to customers and staff to resolve conflicts and achieve mutually agreeable resolutions.
• Develops and fosters a process improvement environment by encouraging ideas, identifying trends, and evaluating processes and data.
• Resolves information service-related complaints to maintain good public relations.
• Assists customers with circulation, information service, and programming needs.
• Assists Library Leadership in implementing department and city goals and objectives to provide guidance to staff.
• Learns, understands, and incorporates current trends to predict the direction of change and design responsive library services.
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