Assistant Library Director

Description

ABOUT THE POSITION:

Under the guidance of the Library & Museums Director, the ideal candidate will help embody the values of the Library, Museums, and City of Monterey. The Assistant Library Director will foster trust, inclusion, and belonging across the department.  The position will support grant and budget development for Library and Museums. The position will contribute to the organizational culture, develop staff, and promote services to the community.  
The Library and Museums department consists of the Monterey Public Library, California History Room, Bookmobile, Colton Hall, Old Jail, Presidio of Monterey Museum, Pacific Biological Laboratories, Worker Shacks, archives, and art collections.

ABOUT THE CITY OF MONTEREY:

Nestled along California's Central Coast, the City of Monterey is known for its natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, hospitality, and sense of community. The City of Monterey is a full-service charter city operating under a Council-Manager form of government. The City of Monterey is a full-service city that provides police, fire, public works, planning, recreation, and parks services and operates its own conference center, sports center, parking, and marina facilities.

WE TAKE CARE OF OUR EMPLOYEES:
The City of Monterey offers a competitive benefits package to full-time employees. Some of these benefits include a Health Spending Fund, Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Vacation Accruals, Sick Leave, 14 Paid Holidays, Education Incentive Pay, Tuition Reimbursement Programs, CalPERS Retirement, and more!

SUMMARY:

Under general direction of the Library Director, assists in the direction of the operations and activities of the City Library and Museums Department through effective planning, staff management, and resource allocation; provides leadership, vision and work supervision; coordinates departmental services to meet diverse community needs; organize assigned activities with other departments and outside agencies; manages priorities,  provides highly responsible professional and technical staff assistance, complex administrative support to the Library Director, and related duties as assigned. The Assistant Library Director is responsible for the operation of the library in the absence of the Library & Museums Director.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:

The Assistant Library Director is a single-position class at the management level distinguished by the scope of responsibility for assisting in overall Library & Museums management. The incumbent in this position exercises maximum independent judgment in developing, implementing, and managing the programs, services, and activities of the division within the scope of Library System policy; and is the system-wide administrator and advisor for personnel and employee relations issues, grants administration, budget preparation, and partnership development. This position receives direct supervision from the Library Director and exercises supervision over professional, technical, and clerical staff and volunteers.

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Possession of a Masters Degree in Library/Information Science from an American Library Association accredited library school or equivalent degree;
• Experience: Four years of increasingly responsible professional library or Museums experience, at least two years of which was managing a major library division or Museum.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.