Children's and Youth Librarian

Svedala is an attractive municipality with opportunities for all stages of life. The municipality is in an expansive phase and is a popular family municipality where many want to move. We work toward creating attractive and health-promoting workplaces in order to offer activities of the highest quality. With us, you will help build an attractive municipality where sustainability, openness, commitment, and courage guide us in our assignments. There is room to grow here, as an employee, citizen, entrepreneur, or visitor. The municipality has approximately 1,600 employees and 23,700 residents. Culture and Recreation has the mission to support, promote, and coordinate cultural life and organized recreational activities within the areas of public libraries, school libraries, youth recreation, general culture, cultural school, associations, and recreational facilities. Culture and Recreation is part of the Education department, which is also responsible for preschool, primary school, upper secondary school, and adult education. Svedala Municipality has high ambitions for both its schools and libraries in lifelong learning. Do you want to work in an operation with high ambitions and school and library development at the forefront? Now there is an opportunity for you as a librarian. We are now seeking an engaged and driven librarian specializing in children and youth for our team! Do you want to be part of creating the libraries of the future for children and young people? With us, you will be part of the Culture and Library unit with three public libraries in Svedala, Bara, and Klågerup. Together, we work to create inclusive meeting places that strengthen reading enthusiasm, education, and democracy for all residents. Assignment We are looking for someone who is driven and wants to help develop library services for children and young people in Bara and Klågerup. The assignment as a children's librarian involves taking responsibility for the library's important target group of children and young people, where children's participation and education are in focus. You have good knowledge of literature for children and young people as well as strong digital skills that can be used in your reading promotion work. You are creative, take initiative to find new working methods, and actively work to build good relationships. As a librarian specializing in children and youth, you have an important role in developing and implementing activities for children, young people, and their adults. In this position, you will, among other things: plan and conduct story hours, book talks, holiday activities, and other events work to promote reading among children and young people of different ages develop activities that strengthen children's and young people's participation and influence collaborate with preschools, schools, recreational activities, associations, and other actors work with media selection and collection development for the target group contribute to an attractive, welcoming, and inspiring library space participate in the library's daily operations, information work, and staffing participate in development work and environmental monitoring together with colleagues Evening and weekend shifts are part of the position. Qualifications We are looking for someone with a strong commitment to children's and young people's reading, learning, and participation. You see the library as an important meeting place and want to contribute to creating activities that are relevant, inspiring, and accessible to different target groups. You have a degree in Library and Information Science, ABM, or other education that the employer deems equivalent. We would also like to see that you have experience working with children and young people. As a person, you are curious, creative, and development-oriented, and you enjoy trying new ideas and ways of working. You like to translate ideas into practical activities and have the ability to plan, implement, and follow up on activities and projects. You build relationships easily and cooperate well with colleagues, preschools, schools, associations, and other actors in the local community. You have a user-focused approach and a genuine interest in literature and reading promotion work. At the same time, you have an eye for the library's development and are interested in how new working methods, forms of communication, and collaborations can help reach more children and young people. You work both independently and with others, take responsibility for your tasks, and actively contribute to a positive work environment. It is an advantage if you have experience with program activities, reading promotion work, media work, or communication on social media. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. Other Permanent full-time position with employment start according to agreement. Individual salary setting is applied. An extract from the criminal records register is required for employment. You can order the criminal records register at https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-annan-verksamhet/. Benefits in addition to collectively agreed benefits within pension, insurance, parental allowance supplement, and parental leave include, for example, wellness allowance of 3,000 kr, benefit cycle, vacation exchange, and salary exchange to pension. https://www.svedala.se/arbeta/jobba-hos-oss/din-arbetsplats/anstallningsformaner/

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