Community Librarian

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We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, self-motivated, customer-focused, and digitally literate library professional with the skills to develop, promote and deliver programmes and services to a wide range of customers. You will also play a major role in training and developing the skills of colleagues, especially with digital technologies.

The Librarian - Community is part of the leadership of the team, assisting the Team Leader and Associate Team Leader to chart the team's course and support and motivate colleagues.

Shirley Library is situated close to the Palms Mall and is a busy library, offering a wide range of programmes and services to our community. The team is experienced, enthusiastic and high-performing and we are looking to collaborate more closely with local organisations.

Upper Riccarton Library - Te Kete Wānanga o Pūtaringamotu is a shared community and school library operated by Christchurch City Libraries in collaboration with Riccarton High School. We offer a wide range of services and engaging programmes to our culturally and linguistically diverse community and dynamic Riccarton High School students. The Red Café on-site attracts many local residents and businesses. The team is proud of who we are and passionate about making a difference in our community.

**We are looking for people who are**:

- Library professionals with (at minimum) a Level 5 Library Diploma and one years' experience of working in a library or an equivalent diploma and two years' library experience
- Enthusiastic about promoting the value of reading, literacy and libraries
- Committed to engaging with the local community and helping diverse groups of people access information
- Innovative and able to design, implement and promote new programmes and services, making full use of emerging technologies
- Competent with information retrieval from a variety of electronic databases and other sources
- Collaborative and keen to help colleagues develop to their highest potential
- Very resilient and enjoy working in a high-performing and fast-changing team environment

Feel like you don't meet every single requirement of the job description?

**Additional information**:

- Hours of work - Fixed Term, Full time._
- Salary_ - $25.44 per hour - $31.13 per hour.
- Location - These positions are based at Upper Riccarton Community and School Library and Shirley Library_

Whilst staff working at the Christchurch City Council are not currently required to be vaccinated, applicants need to be aware that should the COVID-19 environment change, roles across the organisation will be assessed, and the requirement to be vaccinated may be reviewed.