Children's Librarian for Vä Library

Kristianstad Municipality has over 7,000 employees who make a difference in people's daily lives, every day. Here you will find employees who are passionate about welfare and want to turn ideas into reality. Kristianstad Municipality offers several different career paths so you can develop throughout your working life.

The libraries in Kristianstad are open meeting places for people of all ages, social, ethnic or other affiliations, and aim to provide everyone with equal access to the library's resources. Our mission is to stimulate a love of reading and language development, with a particular focus on children and young people. Our libraries are also centers for cultural experiences. The libraries in Kristianstad consist of the main library, ten branch libraries, and a book bus. Approximately 45 people work within the public library services.

The libraries in Kristianstad work with children as a prioritized target group. We are now looking for an engaged, outgoing, and relationship-building children's librarian for Vä Library!

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

A significant part of the job is to work together with colleagues in the team to drive and develop library services in the area, as well as to network and collaborate with various local actors.

With a focus on children and young people, you will have special responsibility for the development of children's services. This involves stimulating reading activities and creating content and inspiring activities for and with children and young people. This includes media purchases, storytelling sessions, book talks, and other programming activities. The work requires a strong interest in literature and a focus on children's and young people's reading and language development and participation. Active collaboration with preschools and schools in the area is part of the job responsibilities. Several of the preschools in Vä have their own preschool libraries, where the public libraries serve as sounding boards.

You will be employed at the Libraries in Kristianstad with placement at Vä Library. Work assignments may also take place at the main library and other branch libraries. Evening and weekend work is included in the position.

QUALIFICATIONS

You who are applying have a degree in library and information science or equivalent, as well as experience in library work and working with children and young people. You have good knowledge of literature, especially literature for children and young people, and previous experience in promoting reading and language development with children.

You are proficient in Swedish both orally and in writing, as communication and documentation are part of your work, and it is an advantage if you can communicate in English and in any of Kristianstad's other major languages.

For us, it is important that you have the ability to work with other people; to listen, show empathy and respect. You have the ability to create and maintain good relationships, both internally and externally. You collaborate well with people in various contexts and functions. You have the ability to plan and organize your work. You find it easy to set goals, organize, follow up, and complete activities. You also need to be creative and innovative, generating new ideas and easily finding new angles and solutions to problems.

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The Culture and Leisure Administration is responsible for the municipality's investments in areas such as libraries, swimming and sports facilities, Kristianstad Theater, Culture House Barbacka, Culture Quarter, youth centers, and association grants. We work across a broad field and currently have about 100 employees within the operations.

In Kristianstad Municipality, we apply full-time for everyone, which means that all employees with permanent employment have the right to full-time work, and part-time is an option. We also apply a smoke-free work environment.

If you have protected personal information, please send your application by post marked with the title and reference number or submit your application at Rådhus Skåne. If you have questions, you can reach us via the citizen center at 044-13 50 00.

If you have questions about how to submit your application, contact the system's support at 0771-69 36 93 or via the link https://zero.comaround.com/sv-se/ (https://zero.comaround.com/sv-se/).