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Anythink Manager/Experience Expert

Rangeview Library District

Anythink Wright Farms

Application Deadline

Apply By Nov 11th, 2011

Wages

$51,884.00 to $63,000.00 per Year   Calculate

Location

Brighton, CO

Hours

40.00

MLS

Preferred

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree

Library Experience

Not Specified

Supervisory Experience

Required

Type of Library

Public

Social

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Job Description

We are looking for an Anythink manager for our flagship location in Thornton, Colorado-- a beautiful 35,000-square-foot library, being recognized as a landmark library in 2010 which serves a vibrant community of more than100,000 people. As an Anythink manager, you love people and are passionate about nurturing curious minds. When it comes to running an organization, you can do it all. If you’ve got everything it takes to manage people, projects, deadlines, events and ideas with a winning style and assurance, this is the position for you. Ready to join in a bold opportunity to help us take community library services to an entirely new dynamic realm? Who you are: •You are a great manager. •You are a positive motivator. •You are a lot of things to a lot of people -- coach, leader, partner, and host. •You are an effective communicator; able to lead meetings and relay pertinent information. •You engage well with others and are passionate about providing an exemplary customer experience. •You’re a team player who thinks quickly on your feet. •You are an active listener with lots of patience. •You’re excited about leading others in a changing environment. •You value technology as a tool, staying on top of new technology trends. •You inspire fun in the people around you. Your vision: •You understand ‘the big picture.’ •You embrace the library district’s vision and can apply it to your daily operations and team. •You are a leader; you know how everything works at the branch, staff looks to you for the best example of how it’s done. •You are actively engaged and add value to the library district’s leadership team in goal setting and strategic planning. •You take ownership for your library operations -- managing a team of people and overseeing your library operations so that each and every customer has positive experiences with us and returns time and time again. •You can keep things organized so the schedule is working effectively and branch floor coverage is meeting our customer service expectations. •You have the energy to juggle many tasks with a smile; you are out of the floor making sure things are running smoothly, modeling excellence in how the branch is to be run. •You are a wizard at coaching your super-talented library team honestly, directly, and consistently to achieve new levels of success. •You love our products. You are a voracious reader, listen to a diverse range of music, and love a good movie. •You collaborate with Guides to develop and set programming that best serves your community. •You continually train and develop your staff in areas of customer service, product knowledge, collection management, and visual merchandizing. •You are a genius at recruiting, hiring, and retaining a diverse and brilliant group of library employees and volunteers •You demonstrate excellent communication skills with staff, customers, community partners, and district leadership. •You are an explorer of partnerships. You participate in local organizations, community events and are the liaison to library friends support groups. •You ensure compliance with all library policies and procedures. •You analyze your library’s statistics and identify new strategies for maximizing results, reporting information to staff and upper management. •You think like an entrepreneur. You understand budgeting and what it takes to run your organization responsibly with a great bottom line. •You have great ideas to share on District committees. •You do the right thing. Every decision you make and action you take is an opportunity to demonstrate our collective integrity.

Additional Info & Requirements

Your job will involve your being “on the move” in our libraries: You will stand, walk, crouch, stoop, squat, twist, climb, push/pull up to 50 pounds, and lift up to 25 pounds. , This is a full-time benefited position with an excellent benefit package. This is an exempt position. Do you have what it takes? •You have a minimum of 3 years of management or leadership experience. •You have been an integral part of a business, library, or nonprofit organization’s success story. •You have a Bachelor’s degree or Master of Library Science degree (preferred). •You are tech savvy. You are computer literate including a working knowledge of Microsoft office suite, online resources and expert searching capabilities for internet tools. •You have bilingual Spanish speaking skills (preferred).

The Community

Why Rangeview Library District? A job with Rangeview Library District is a chance to use your knowledge and experience to enable transformations every day. You will be instrumental in helping our customers have fun, whether they’re sitting by the fireplace with a newspaper, surfing the Internet, gaming in the teen room or learning something new at one of our many intriguing and entertaining programs. As you help and inspire others, you will also be inspired. This job will have you loving Monday mornings again. We are guided by these shared values: Compassion for our customers and each other Passion for our product Eagerness to learn Optimistic attitude – we believe that anything is possible

Human Resources / Job Listings
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HR Info

If you are interested in joining our team, please submit a resume, letter of interest and an application (which can be downloaded from our website) and mail to: Human Resources, Rangeview Library District Administrative Building 5877 120th Avenue, Thornton, CO 80602. All application information can be turned in at any of our Rangeview Library branch locations as well. REMEMBER TO APPLY BY THE POSTING DEADLINE

Posted Oct 13, 2011