Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? In Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a workplace built on trust where you can develop in your role and grow as a person. We welcome your application!
Bomhus Library is located in Folkets hus in the center of Bomhus and is a vibrant meeting place for all ages, with books, audiobooks, e-books, and magazines – both on-site and digitally through our e-services. Our bright facilities include reading corners, study spaces, and a children's section that inspire a love of reading. We regularly arrange activities such as reading circles and author visits – opportunities to meet and be inspired. Through partnerships with schools and organizations, we tailor our activities to local needs. We are three staff members who together create a vibrant meeting place. Welcome to discover, learn, and connect at Bomhus Library!
1 position(s).
WORK RESPONSIBILITIES
As a librarian, you work with reading promotion initiatives and plan and conduct programs for both children and adults. The role also includes overall responsibility as a program coordinator for the branch libraries, where you drive, coordinate, and further develop the program offerings in close collaboration with colleagues and external partners. Together with your colleagues at Bomhus Library, you work closely with residents of Bomhus and help strengthen the love of reading and develop an attractive meeting place.
• In this role, you have special responsibility for developing and driving activities aimed at adults.
• You participate in Gävle Library's joint program group and coordinate programs and communications for the branch libraries through our information channels.
• The role involves planning and administrative tasks where you function as a central coordinator and liaison between staff and the communications department.
• You collaborate with local actors, schools, organizations, and cultural practitioners to create a varied and inspiring offering.
• You contribute to developing the activities through environmental analysis and by testing new ideas.
• The assignment also includes daily library work, receiving and leading groups, and staffing at other libraries within the unit.
QUALIFICATIONS
Formal Competencies:
• University degree in library and information science
• Work experience in library operations
• Experience working with children and young people, for example through work or volunteer engagement
• Experience leading groups and speaking to groups
• B-level driving license
Merits for the position:
• Experience planning, conducting, and coordinating program activities
• Experience with digital library systems, for example Quria
To succeed in this role, you are:
• Structured: You work in a structured manner and according to clear processes, plan and organize your work well, and ensure that tasks are completed within set timeframes. You have a good ability to coordinate tasks and activities, drive the work forward, and create structure in shared work. You are also thorough and systematic in your administrative work.
• Confident and relationship-building: You are confident in your librarian role and build trust when meeting people of different ages and in different contexts. You are also comfortable leading groups and giving presentations to different target audiences.
• Communicative: You have good communication skills, express yourself clearly and concretely, and adapt your language, both verbally and in writing, to your audience and situation.
• Flexible: You have the ability to adapt to the organization's needs and thrive in a role with varying work tasks.
Employment Form: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: According to agreement.
Working Hours: Shift schedule. Schedule includes: Day, evening, and weekend service.
We offer you
You are important to us! As an employee at Gävle Municipality, you have
• generous vacation benefits, and as a new employee you also have the right to paid vacation during your first year of employment
• compensation for wellness and exercise when you have been employed for more than three months
• several different insurances through our collective agreements, for example sick leave insurance and occupational injury insurance are included.
Read more about our benefits here: https://www.gavle.se/formaner
Our Values
Quality, treatment, and collaboration are the most important success factors for fulfilling our mission in the best way possible. To do the right things and act wisely in our daily work, it is important that we base ourselves on our shared values.
Read more about us as an employer and what it is like to work at Gävle Municipality here:
https://www.gavle.se/jobbahososs
Here you can read more about our organization:
https://www.gavle.se/organisation
Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. If, in addition to our other competency requirements, you also speak Finnish, this could be a merit.
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Bomhus Library is located in Folkets hus in the center of Bomhus and is a vibrant meeting place for all ages, with books, audiobooks, e-books, and magazines – both on-site and digitally through our e-services. Our bright facilities include reading corners, study spaces, and a children's section that…