POSITION: Assistant Library Director, Williamsburg Regional Library
LOCATION: Williamsburg, VA
SALARY: $104,024 - $164,222
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open Until Filled

Assistant Library Director (Public Services)

Description

Williamsburg Regional Library is seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking Assistant Library Director for Public Services to help lead an exciting period of growth and transformation.

 

As WRL prepares to expand from two library locations to three, we’re looking for a collaborative leader who can help us reimagine and strengthen public service across our growing system. This position will guide our public-facing services, including Outreach Services while helping expand innovative offerings such as makerspaces, emerging technologies, and hands-on learning opportunities.

 

If you’re an experienced library leader who enjoys developing people, building community connections, embracing new ideas, and turning change into opportunity, we’d love to hear from you. Come help us build what’s next for WRL - and for the communities we serve.

 

Responsibilities: Nature of Work

 

Performs advanced work overseeing daily operations of library public service divisions and acts as a member of the library’s management team and supervises major library divisions.

 

Essential Job Functions (other essential job functions may be designated by department)

 

  • Provides effective supervision of assigned staff including selection, performance management, scheduling, employee relations, training, prioritizing and assigning work, and related activities.
  • Supervises and evaluates library division directors as required by library organization chart.
  • Assists director and assistant library director (general services) in preparing the annual library budget.
  • Keeps abreast of advances in technology and plans for applications to improve and enhance library public services; prepares monthly, statistical, and special reports; collects and analyzes pertinent data.
  • Improves the quality of library public services through individual and general staff development by attending relevant meetings, workshops and training sessions and visiting other sites.
  • Participates in library-wide planning and decision-making as a member of the library management team.
  • Performs duties of director in director’s absence or at director’s discretion.
  • Represents the library on behalf of the director and works with community groups and representatives.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Required: Job Preparation Needed

 

  • Masters of Library Science degree from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited library school required; considerable public library and supervisory experience in a relevant field.
  • Must possess reliable transportation to work site(s).
  • Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of library services and personnel management; principles and processes for providing customer service including setting and meeting quality standards for services and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Skill in the use of computer software, including Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Ability to plan, organize and administer a library division; serve the public with friendliness, tact and diplomacy; work well under pressure; delegate work effectively; set own priorities for work to be done and meet deadlines; establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff members, vendors, technicians, government officials and staff, and the general public; communicate effectively both orally and in writing.