The Role:
Leitrim County Council is seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates with relevant experience for the position of Senior Library Assistant in Dromahair Branch Library.
The Senior Library Assistant is a frontline and key support position within the structure of the Library Service. A Senior Library Assistant makes a valuable contribution to the provision of the Library Service centrally, and at local branch level, by providing support to library management and supervising staff, and is a vital link in the team which promotes the library as a focal point for cultural activities, community engagement and lifelong learning. As the person in charge of managing the day-to-day running of the library, the Senior Library Assistant will also be called upon to manage and deliver a range of library programmes and initiatives both in the library and online.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team within the Library Service assisting with the implementation of work programmes to achieve goals, targets and standards set out in the Library Development Plan and Team Plans and which support actions identified in the National Public Library Strategy 2023-2027 ‘The Library is the Place’. The successful candidate will be expected to use initiative and work to a high standard. He/she will work under the direction and management of the library senior management team, comprising Executive Librarian, Senior Executive Librarian and County Librarian.
Leitrim Library Service manages and supports a network of 8 branch libraries, 2 of which offer a ‘My Open Library’ Service, including Dromahair branch library. The libraries are strategically located across the county together with a Local Studies Library which is based in Ballinamore Library. The Library Service is constantly innovating and diversifying in a dynamic and changing environment, taking advantage of technological advancement in particular to deliver a wide and varied range of front-line services to users. Leitrim Library Service also engages with Roscommon and Sligo Library Services in relation to the joint delivery of agreed services/programmes through formal collaboration and resource sharing.
The Library Service is based in the Finance, Environment, Climate, Sustainable Communities and Library Services, and Manorhamilton Municipal District Directorate of Leitrim County Council.
The Council is seeking dynamic, creative and motivated individuals to fill the role of Senior Library Assistant in Dromahair Branch Library. The successful candidates will assist in fulfilling the library vision of being open, accessible, a focal point for communities and delivering quality customer service.
As the Library Service is a county-wide service, staff may be required to provide cover at, and may be reassigned to, any service point within County Leitrim as required by the County Librarian.
3. Citizenship
Candidates for any of the above panels must, by the date of any job offer, be:
(a)A citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA). The EEA consists of the Member States of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway; or
(b) A citizen of the United Kingdom (UK); or
(c) A citizen of Switzerland pursuant to the agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the free movement of persons; or
(d) A non-EEA citizen who is a spouse or child of an EEA or UK or Swiss citizen and has a stamp 4 visa; or
(e) A person awarded international protection under the International Protection Act 2015 or any family member entitled to remain in the State as a result of family reunification and has a stamp 4 visa; or
(f) A non-EEA citizen who is a parent of a dependent child who is a citizen of, and resident in, an EEA member state or the UK or Switzerland and has a stamp 4 visa.
4. Education, Training, Experience etc.
Each candidate must, on the latest date for receipt of completed application forms:
(i)Have a good general level of education.
(ii)Have had at least 2 years’ satisfactory experience of library work.
The Ideal Candidate shall have:
- An understanding of the changing library environment and be capable of adapting to change.
- An understanding of the role of a Senior Library Assistant.
- An ability to work effectively within a team to achieve a common goal, ensuring standards are adhered to and maintained whilst also being capable of working on their own initiative, in an independent environment and without supervision.
- An ability to manage time and workload and to plan work and allocation of staff and other resources effectively.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to develop and maintain positive, productive and beneficial working relationships.
- The ability to provide excellent customer services.
- The motivation to achieve maximum performance by supporting the current Performance Management and Development System (PMDS).
- Knowledge and experience of operating ICT systems and online resources in a library environment.
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