Library Coordinator, Office of the Library

About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:

Continuing

Position Summary

Availability:
Continuing | Full-Time
Compensation:
Higher Education Officer Level 8
Salary Range:
$102,143 - $113,079 p.a.
Reporting to:
Director of Library Services
Library
Under broad direction, the Coordinator, Office of the Library, provides high-level advice, analysis, and support to the Library leadership team and leadership to a small but high performing Office of the Library services team.
This position is an important interface between the library and the broader University and external community, requiring regular professional engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders.
This position is also responsible for providing high-level coordination and support of specialised areas such as copyright compliance, strategy and policy development, records management and priority projects and initiatives of the Library.
As a member of the Library's management team, they will be expected to contribute to a 'one Library' ethos and support other members of the senior management in delivery of services across all teams.

Key Position Responsibilities

The Coordinator, Office of the Library works with the Library Director, and in collaboration with the Library Leadership team, is accountable for:

• Leading and managing the Office of the Library team, including planning, and allocating staff resources, developing, coaching, and mentoring employees and managing performance to deliver high quality services

• Providing high level advisory to Library Executive on development of a broad range of strategies, policies, and procedures.

• Undertaking research and analysis across a broad range of issues and provide critical comment and briefings to Library Executive on strategic, operational, and sector-wide issues.

• Undertake high level project coordination and support as required.

• Drafting correspondence, reports, presentations, and submissions on behalf of Library Executive, including responses to complex requests to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Taking a high level and holistic view of multiple aspects of staff development to provide a coordinated and strategic whole-of-Library approach.

• Contributing strategically to Library and relevant University committees and working groups

• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• A relevant tertiary qualification, or equivalent combination of experience and/or education and/or training.

• Demonstrated high-level written communication skills, including demonstrated capacity to respond to enquiries autonomously and draft correspondence and high-quality reports with recommendations for complex and sensitive issues.

• Demonstrated experience in, and detailed knowledge of relevant frameworks and practices related to, researching, preparing, analysing, developing, and implementing strategies, policies, and procedures relevant to higher education.

• Demonstrated experience in leading and motivating a team of service-oriented professionals to deliver high quality services.

• High-level communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills with demonstrated capacity to cooperate and communicate effectively with people at all levels.

• High-level organisational skills, including demonstrated ability in problem solving, priority setting and working to deadlines with high quality outcomes, apply attention to detail and relate tasks to the wider context.

• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgement within broad guidelines, take initiative and be flexible.

• Demonstrated ability to collate and distil information from a wide range of sources and assist with or prepare and compile briefing papers, proposals, presentations and background documents.

• Substantial relevant professional and management experience in an academic or research library and a knowledge of current university library management trends (desirable).

• Eligibility for Membership of the Australian Library and Information Association (desirable).

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• Flinders University has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that requires all new staff members to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, subject to medical exemptions. 

How to Apply

Please review the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description and submit a Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages addressing the criteria. Applications without a Suitability Statement may not be considered. For more information, please see our How To Apply page.

For more information regarding this position, please contact Prashant Pandey.

Click here to view the Position Description.

Information for Applicants:

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59pm:

29 Sep 2022