Central School Library Coordinator, Children's and Education Administration

Do you value proximity, growth, and creating the best conditions for everyone who lives and works in Huddinge Municipality? Then we offer plenty of career opportunities in a well-functioning and growing municipality with both nature and big city pulse around the corner. With us, you feel secure, included, and proud as we make a difference with strength every day. In Huddinge Municipality, we work to create a sustainable society where nature, technology, and good service interact. Huddinge is a large Stockholm municipality with approximately 6,400 employees and over 110,000 residents. If you have protected personal information, we ask you to contact the contact person specified in the advertisement. Huddinge Municipality works to be a safe, lawful, and professional operation. As part of our recruitment process, we may therefore conduct background checks and request register extracts in the final stages of certain recruitments. If you become relevant for this, you will receive clear information and the opportunity to give your consent before the check is conducted. The Children's and Education Administration works on behalf of the Preschool Board and Primary School Board. The administration is responsible for preschool activities, school childcare, primary school, and adapted primary school. Our most important task is to give all children and students in Huddinge the opportunity to develop to their full potential in a safe educational environment. All our employees play an important role in this implementation. 1 position(s). Do you want to be part of developing tomorrow's school libraries in Huddinge Municipality? We are now looking for a central school library coordinator who wants to lead and develop school library activities within Huddinge Municipality's schools. The role is a key function in the work of creating equivalent, modern, and pedagogically integrated school libraries where activities, reading promotion work, media and information literacy (MIK), and digital library systems work together in practice. In this role, you contribute to the municipality's work of developing school libraries that meet the new requirements in the Education Act and strengthen students' reading, language development, and information competence. The role combines strategic development work with close collaboration with schools, library staff, IT, and administration. You are responsible for shared structures, system support, and equivalent working methods in libraries within educational activities throughout the municipality, and you become an important part of the municipality's continued development of school libraries and the implementation of library systems Quria and WeLib. Duties As a central school library coordinator, you are responsible for the overall coordination and development of school library activities within Huddinge Municipality's primary schools. You work both strategically and operatively and ensure that school libraries have common working methods, clear procedures, and equivalent support in daily work. You also contribute to strengthening school libraries' role as a pedagogical resource in schools' work with reading, language development, and information competence. An important part of the assignment is to coordinate the use of the library system Quria and the shared catalog and ensure quality in metadata and structure. The work contributes to creating accessible, usable, and equivalent school library resources for students and staff throughout the municipality. The role also involves capturing the needs of the operation and coordinating development issues between schools, administration, and suppliers. You will, among other things: lead and coordinate school library activities at the municipal level support the development of school libraries' pedagogical mission in collaboration with school management and operations contribute to the development of reading promotion work and media and information literacy (MIK) follow and implement national policy documents and developments in the school library field ensure equivalent working methods and use of Quria in all schools develop and manage common procedures, guidelines, and support materials be responsible for the municipal catalog and quality assurance of metadata support school libraries with questions about cataloging, structure, and working methods coordinate training, information, and communication to schools identify development needs and coordinate operational requirements act as a contact between operations, IT, administration, and system supplier contribute to the development of support and management structures for library systems follow up on usage, needs, and quality issues in the operation act as contact person for system managers at public libraries in Huddinge Municipality and for developing collaborations Who are you? We are looking for you who have experience with school libraries, library systems, or library activities and who thrive in a coordinating and developing role. You have a good understanding of how libraries' activities, pedagogical mission, and digital systems need to work together to create good support for schools and students. You see the school library as an important part of the school's educational mission and thrive in a role where development, collaboration, and structure need to go hand in hand. To succeed in this role, you need to be structured, communicative, and confident in driving issues with many different stakeholders. Required competencies: Must-haves: higher education in library and information science or other education that the employer considers relevant experience working in libraries or school libraries experience with library systems or similar business systems good understanding of metadata, cataloging, and library structure experience in coordination, development work, or change management good ability to express yourself clearly in speech and writing in Swedish Should-haves: work in Quria and/or WeLib municipal or educational activities work with support, management, or implementation issues training and development of guides or support materials experience with reading promotion work or work with MIK Welcome with your application! Information Questions about the position are answered by Section Manager Åsa Bauermeister at phone 08-53536037 or email [email protected] Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Ongoing.

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