Welcome to Alingsås Municipality!

As an employee in our municipality, you have every opportunity to be part of developing the operations and your workplace. With nearly 4000 employees, we are large enough to drive change and small enough for everyone to influence and have space for their ideas. There is room for innovators here. Together we create Alingsås!

At the Department of Children and Youth, we make a difference every day by providing high-quality education and community services. We are now looking for an experienced, dedicated, and relationship-building school library coordinator who wants to contribute to our work in creating an equitable education where all children and students have the opportunity to succeed.

We are proud of our work and each other. At the administrative department of the Department of Children and Youth, you will meet an engaged team of fourteen people. The department is led by the administrative manager of the department and works with administration and providing support to the operations, staff, and citizens of the Department of Children and Youth. With us, team spirit and joy at work are in focus. We deliver quality, help each other solve our tasks, and ensure that workdays are characterized by both development and community.

When you start with us, we offer you:

• A secure employment
• Opportunity for vacation exchange
• Extra vacation days when you turn 40
• Competence development plan
• Parental benefit supplement
• Wellness allowance and favorable discounts via E-passi
• Bicycle benefit
• A workplace that is centrally located within walking distance to the train, restaurants, and shops

Warm welcome with your application!

JOB DESCRIPTION

The school library coordinator is centrally located in the administrative department of the Department of Children and Youth. The responsibilities of the Children and Youth Committee include preschool, after-school care, preschool class, primary school, and adapted primary school.

Our school libraries are under development, and you will have a central role in helping to develop the future schools in Alingsås Municipality. We are constantly working to improve the quality of our preschools and schools through innovative thinking, knowledge of current research, and based on proven experience.

Your responsibilities include:

• Coordinating the work with the development of school libraries in Alingsås Municipality's primary schools and adapted primary schools together with the school principals and school library managers
• Coordinating purchases and providing support to school libraries in media purchases as needed
• Supporting school libraries in planning activities and working methods as needed
• Being responsible for the implementation of a common library system
• Being the contact person for the municipality's public library and Alströmer High School's library
• Being the contact person for school libraries towards other functions in the municipality, the administration, and externally
• Collecting and reporting school library statistics to KB
• Collaborating with those responsible for other cultural offerings in schools
• Assisting in the systematic quality work of the school libraries
• Preparing matters regarding school libraries for the Children and Youth Committee
• Performing other tasks related to school libraries as decided by the responsible manager

The employment is primarily a project position for two years.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a degree in library and information science with a dedicated interest in children, youth, and their literature. You have experience working with school libraries, good knowledge of library systems, work with media and information literacy for children and young people, and experience conducting systematic quality and development work based on scientific principles in accordance with current legislation in the field.

To succeed in this role, you are self-driven, structured, and take responsibility for your tasks. You plan, organize, and prioritize your work effectively and independently drive various processes forward. You have a good ability to collaborate with different colleagues who, in various roles, work with issues that are important for the development of our school libraries. You communicate openly and transparently with other stakeholders, listen to different perspectives, and have the ability to explain and create understanding of complex processes.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

OTHER

For this position, you need to present a valid criminal record check, which you can order via the link below:

https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/skola-eller-forskola/)

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