Literacy and Learning Facilitator

**2 x Full Time Permanent Positions available** **1 x based at Melton Library and 1 x based at Caroline Springs Library** **Salary Range $71,280 to $82,081 per annum + 10.5% Super + RDO** **About Melton City Council** The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality—one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City. We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces. **The Opportunity** Melton City Libraries is seeking **two** creative and enthusiastic program facilitators to develop, deliver, and evaluate an innovative range of early and school years programs, activities and initiatives for children 0-12 years and their carers across the library service to inspire creativity and a love of literature and learning. This position is a permanent, full time position based on a 35-hour week, including a regular evening and 1:4 Saturday mornings. **Key Responsibilities** - Provide leadership to staff in the delivery of high-quality customer service across the library service to ensure customers have a positive experience characterised by active engagement - Participate in rostered library customer service shifts at library facilities or outreach points and proactively engage with customers to maximise their use of resources, equipment, technology, and online platforms. - Develop effective relationships and partnerships with education institutions, particularly primary schools, and early years education providers, to ensure regular visitation to library facilities and outreach visits by library staff to engage with children. - Utilise community development principles and an inclusive intercultural approach to develop program plans and proposals that align with established library priorities, and regularly facilitate and deliver literacy and learning programs for children aged 0-12 years. - Contribute and work effectively within a team environment, including actively contributing to team planning, development activities and issue/task-oriented working groups. - Provide input into the development and maintenance of library collections through specialist knowledge of education and community needs in relation to area of responsibility. - Provide information, resources, and where appropriate referral, to children and their parents/carers to enable them to make informed decisions and make full use of resources and services available within the community. **About you** **_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_** - A tertiary qualification in either professional membership (librarian) of the Australian Library and Information Association or relevant tertiary qualification in Education or Community Development together with relevant experience in public libraries and children’s program delivery experience. - Experience in program development and delivery for children and their parents/carers. - A passion for storytelling and community engagement, with a customer-centric approach to your work. **Culture and Values** Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future. We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are: - Motivate - Empower - Lead - Trust - Open - Nurture **Benefits** There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council: - 19 Day Month - Flexible Working Hours - Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs - 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave - 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave - Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace accredited) - Wellbeing initiatives - Subsidised Uniforms **How To Apply** If you require further information about the position, please contact Emma White, Coordinator Library and Arts Activation, 9747 5919. To view the Position Description, click here. Applications **must** include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. We encourage you to use the STAR approach when writing your responses to the selection criteria. - Situation (Task) - provide a brief outline of the situation or task?_ - Action - what did you