Job Summary.
The jobholder shall be primarily responsible for library circulation services, user education, registration, clearance, needs assessments, library organization and maintenance of usage statistics.
Duties and responsibilities
- Manage the library circulation services function in line with policies and procedures on loaning, returning, renewing, among others.
- Conduct user education and awareness programmes to improve uptake of library services
- Conduct registration and training of library users on Koha, Electronic resources and RemoteX platform.
- Provide support to the management of the operations of regional libraries especially on inter-library role.
- Manage the library schedule so as to ensure library services are available for the approved open hours
- Manage the process of identifying staff with overdue books, sending reminders and engagement with human resource division on recovery of fines.
- Manage the library shelving and organization function and Conduct user needs assessments to support the library acquisition function.
- Manage the clearing of exiting staff including conducting, maintaining and reporting on satisfaction rate.
Person specificationsk
For appointment to this job, the candidate must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Knowledge Management, or information science with knowledge management specialization or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
- Four 4 years relevant work experience, one 1 of which must be at Supervisory level.
- Management Course lasting not less than four 4 weeks from a recognized institution, will be an added advantage.
- Membership to a professional body where applicable.
Key Competencies
- Innovative thinking
- Organizational skills
- Resilience and Adaptability
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
- Customer-Centrism Approach
- Professionalism, Ethical Judgment and Integrity
