Vacant job

The position is located within the Department of Culture and Leisure, which is one of eight departments in Linköping Municipality. We offer everyone who lives and works in Linköping Municipality a broad and varied range of culture and leisure activities.

Do you want to brighten up everyday life and improve the quality of life for the people of Linköping? With us, you can make a significant difference and contribute to making Linköping a better place. Welcome to us!

Your Responsibilities

We are looking for a librarian with operational responsibility who wants to help develop the library into an open, inclusive, and inspiring meeting place. Here you will combine regular library work with reading promotion initiatives and development in close collaboration with the cultural center and the city library.

In this role, you will work with traditional library tasks such as information service and media management, as well as creating a vibrant cultural center in collaboration with other actors. You will meet visitors of all ages and contribute to an accessible and welcoming library and cultural center. An important part of the role is planning and implementing activities that promote reading, learning, and participation in society, both digitally and analogously. You will collaborate with the cultural center's activities and the city library to create relevant activities and media offerings based on the visitors' needs and wishes.

In addition to your regular duties, you also have operational responsibility. This involves seeing the big picture, which includes working with the department's goals, conducting follow-ups, and collaborating with other departments.

Evening and weekend work is included in the position.

Your Workplace

You will work in the Culture Division, which consists of the Museums and Cultural Heritage unit and the Art and Cultural Stages unit. Agora, which belongs to Art and Cultural Stages, is a cultural center where the library is included as part of the center's activities. You will have your workplace at the Agora Library and collaborate with other activities within the cultural center as well as with other libraries within the municipality. The Agora Library in Linköping is part of a modern cultural center in Skäggetorp that houses a library, café, atelier, music studio, and several stages for various activities. It is a lively meeting place where people can read, participate in events, and meet in an open and reading-promoting environment.

The library should be an interactive meeting place for everyone. Central to us is working with democracy, education, and culture. We work with highlighting priority target groups, working outside our own premises, collaborating with other activities, and increasing the culture of participation. We aim to create space for new thinking and open up for new cultural expressions in close collaboration with other cultural activities and civil society.

Who You Are

We are looking for you with a degree in library and information science or another degree from a university or college that the employer deems equivalent. You have previous experience working as a librarian, and we find it meritorious if you have experience in reading promotion work for different target groups. Furthermore, it is meritorious if you have experience in team leadership, coordination, or staff management, as well as collaboration with various activities or external actors. You have good digital competence and the ability to support users with digital issues. You have good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing, as you will have many contacts both internally and externally.

As a person, you are team-oriented and contribute to a positive and engaging work climate. You work in a structured manner and can plan, organize, and prioritize your work effectively. Thanks to your holistic view, you can also look up to adapt activities and initiatives to overarching goals. The role requires you to be self-reliant, take responsibility for your tasks, and enjoy working towards set goals. At the same time, you are service-oriented and confident in professional contexts, build good relationships, and treat both colleagues and visitors in a professional, attentive, and inclusive manner. To thrive in the role, you need to be flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances, as well as see opportunities in development and change. We are looking for you who put the visitor at the center and have a strong will and ability to provide service with clarity, care, and an inclusive approach. With us, you will have a meaningful job where you contribute to reading enjoyment, participation, and access to culture and information.

Send us your application!

Other Information

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Start date: By agreement

Employment type: Permanent

Full-time equivalent: 100%

Number of vacancies: 1

Ref. no: 17293

No cover letter is required with this application.

Together we shape the city of the future

Linköping is one of Europe's most innovative cities and a municipality of opportunities. With energy, courage, and heart, we make our city even better. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to find new solutions. And by brightening up everyday life and improving the quality of life for our residents.