Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• To ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information
• To collaborate with classroom teachers and specialists to design and implement lessons and units of instruction, and assess student learning and instructional effectiveness
• To provide the leadership and expertise necessary to ensure that the school library program (SLP) is aligned with the mission, goals, and objectives of the school and is an integral component of the learning/instructional program
• Taking an active role in school improvement and accreditation activities
• Encouraging the use of instructional technology to engage students and to improve learning, providing 24/7 access to digital information resources for the entire learning community
• Advocating for school library programs and the guiding principles of the school library profession
• Evaluating, promoting, and using existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning, supplement school resources
• As program administrator, the school librarian works collaboratively with members of the learning community to define the policies of the school library program, and to guide and direct all activities related to it.
• Creating and maintaining in the school library a teaching and learning environment that is inviting, safe, flexible, and conducive to student learning
• Ensure an accurate inventory of resources
• Ensure efficient retrieval by users
• Search external database programs for the availability of cataloguing copy
• Maintain inventories, compile statistics and generate reports as required
• Develop and maintain cataloguing procedures

Desired Candidate Profile

Looking for a candidate with experience of min 2 years as Librarian.

• Good Communications skills
• creativity, innovation, and openness to new ideas, Enthusiastic
• Welcoming and encouraging input from others to create consensus
• Ensure an accurate inventory of resources
• ability to manage a library and its collection
• operate computerized library