Job Purpose:
The Librarian is responsible for organising and managing collections of journals, books, magazines, newspapers, electronic documents, and other data resources. The Librarian will also be responsible for organising mini lessons, crafts, and story time. School librarians will often work with children to help guide them to material of the appropriate reading level. The Librarian will monitor the checking out and returning of books. In addition, they are responsible for helping students find and understand information within the library that they may need.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Curriculum:
- Ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.
- Empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers and skillful researchers.
- Foster a love of learning and reading in each student.
- Ensure access to information for all students of varying abilities.
- Collaborate with class teachers, specialist teachers, and curriculum leaders for the design and implementation of units and lessons.
- Assist student learning and the effectiveness of teaching.
- Provide expertise to ensure that the school library programme thrives.
- Share communication skills; instill enthusiasm in others by showing how they are an important part of the library.
- Foster an environment of creativity, innovation, and openness to new ideas.
- Create a resource-based environment that is conducive to active and participatory learning.
- Share instructional practices, and collaborate with teaching staff
- Encourage instructional technology to engage students and to improve learning,
- Collect and analyse data to improve instruction and to demonstrate correlations between the library programmes and student achievement
- Maintain active memberships in professional associations.
- Remain an active, accessible, and informed proponent of the school library profession.
- Participate in the curriculum development process.
- Ensure that support material for curricula include information, media, visual, digital, and technological literacy to support all students.
- Collaborate with teachers and students to incorporate multiple literacy and foster critical thinking
School Values and Ethos:
- To actively promote our Vision and Mission through enthusiastic participation in school life.
Management of children's learning:
- To follow school policies and procedures in and out of the classroom.
- To support the teacher to provide a safe, well-managed learning environment, preparing the classroom for learning and preparing materials for display.
- Under the direction of the teacher, support children in their learning.
Professional Standards:
- To be a role model to all children within the School.
- To maintain high standards of professional behavior in accordance with the school’s ethos, including timekeeping and personal presentation.
- To be a learner and reflect upon the role in order to improve your own skills.
- To always maintain professional relationships with colleagues.
Person Specification:
(E is Essential; D is Desired)
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree related to Librarian work. (D)
Experience and Knowledge:
- A minimum of two years relevant experience. (D)
- Good communication skills in reading, writing English and numeracy skills. (E)
- Good organisation and communication skills. (E)
- Relevant experience working with children to support learning. (D)
- Experience of working with Library management software. (E)
- Experience working with children who have English as a Second Language. (D)
- Experience of working in an international school (D)
- Experience of working with Accelerated Reader. (D)
Personal Qualities:
- Ability to inspire children with a love of learning. (E)
- Strong personal-relations and team-working skills. (E)
- Ability to use ICT under direction. (E)
- A commitment to professional development. (E)
- Ability to work with and apply all school policies. (E)
- Rigorous can-do attitude, positive team player with a growth mindset and a sense of humor. (E)
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