Library Officer

Posted: 05/02/2025

Closing Date: 23/02/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Part Time

Location: St Arnaud

Job Category: Education and Training

**_The St Arnaud Library is seeking a highly motivated and flexible team player with strong communication skills._**

**Vacancy Details**:
**Position**:
**Library Officer**

**Job Type**:
**Part Time - 3.25 per week and 2 hours on alternate weekends**

**Tenure**:
**Permanent**

**Location**:
**St Arnaud**

**Package**:
**$61,913.80 per annum pro rata plus superannuation**

**Download Position Description**:
**Library Officer Position Description**

**Applications Close**:
**Sunday 23rd February 2025**

**About Northern Grampians Shire Council**

Northern Grampians Shire Council has a diverse employment base, across 14 worksites in the Grampians Region of Victoria. We offer flexible work arrangements, providing access to relevant training and professional development opportunities with a variety of employee benefits. We promote innovation, responsiveness, respectfulness and continuous improvement as our core values. Being a smaller organisation, we can provide you with opportunities to act in leadership roles, transition between teams and participate in a range of collaborative projects with other team members or the wider community. We provide a supportive and flexible environment that values the balance between work and our employees' personal lives.

**Why join us?**

In addition to the picturesque landscapes at our backdoor, there are many other benefits to working for our innovative and vibrant Northern Grampians Shire Council. These include:

- Fortnightly RDO: Enjoy a well-deserved break and rejuvenate.
- Great Team Environment: A safe, respectful and supportive environment to enable you to thrive. You will work with like-minded, passionate individuals who love what they do.
- Professional Growth: We nurture talent and provide opportunities to flourish.
- Flexible Work Arrangements: To support your work life balance.
- Salary Packaging Options: Including remote area housing allowances and novated lease vehicles
- Access to Paid Leave: including purchased leave, paid parental leave, gender affirmation leave and to respond to family violence matters
- Employee Assistance Program: Your well-being matters - we've got you covered.
- Biodiversity: Explore our Council region's varied flora and fauna

**Promote Inclusion**

Northern Grampians Shire Council is committed to promote inclusion of all children and families; we aim to establish a culture that supports:

- cultural safety for Aboriginal children by working in partnership with Aboriginal peoples and Aboriginal community controlled organisations
- cultural safety for children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds
- establishing a safe environment for children with a disability

**Position objectives**

This role is dedicated to providing exceptional customer service, ensuring that patrons and visitors enjoy a positive library experience. The Library Officer will deliver high-quality service, offer information and support, assist with library programs, and facilitate access to resources

**Key responsibility areas**
- Assist library patrons and community members to source materials and information, borrow, reserve, renew and return library materials.
- Demonstrate strong computer skills to effectively operate library software and assist patrons with using library computers and personal devices such as smartphones and laptops.
- Develop and deliver programs and services to the community, including but not limited to storytelling, school holiday programs, housebound services, class visits and related activities/events.
- File/shelve all library stock correctly to ensure resources are easily accessible.
- Actively promote library resources to the community.
- Collect payments for library services and products.
- Perform, as directed, other duties that are within the limits of the incumbents’ skill, competence and training.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**To succeed in this role you will**:

- Have excellent communication skills
- Be a good team player
- Be highly motivated
- Be able to cope with large volumes of manual handling
- Have good problem resolution skills

**Qualifications and experience**
- Successful completion of Year 10 or equivalent experience in a similar field.

**Selection criteria**
- Demonstrated numeracy, written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated customer service experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of a variety of computer hardware and software programs.

**How to apply**
- Download and read the **position description.**:

- Attach a resume and cover letter briefly addressing the key selection criteria.

Applications close Sunday 23rd February 2025

**Northern Grampians Shire Council is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to providing a safe workplace that embraces and va