Senior Schools Library Officer

Are you passionate about getting young people reading?

Do you have the drive to champion our school’s library service and the confidence to build strong relationships with our schools?

As our Senior Schools Library Officer, you’ll help shape and deliver excellent library services to schools across Sheffield and beyond. You will lead a small and dedicated team to make sure our traded schools library service continues to thrive.

What you’ll do:

• Build positive partnerships with schools and other key people to promote our traded school library service.
• Oversee and promote high-quality, customer-focused library services to schools.
• Select inspiring books (fiction and non-fiction) that brings the curriculum to life and engages children and young people to develop a lifelong love of reading.
• Lead and support a team of supervisors and assistants.
• Manage budgets and resources for the service.
• Help develop new ideas and improve our offer for schools.

About you:

• You’re a confident communicator who can build relationships and influence others.
• You’re passionate about reading and are confident and knowledgeable about how schools library support school curriculums at all age groups.
• You have experience managing teams and budgets.
• You enjoy working with different people and thrive in a busy environment.

If you’re ready to lead our school’s library team and help schools to inspire the next generation of readers, we’d love to hear from you.