Community Library Service Centre Assistant

Rolleston, New Zealand

Reference: 6479435

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team at Te Ara Ātea, a place of discovery, community, gathering and sharing knowledge.

As a front facing member of our team you will work with books, technology, online resources, events, and programmes and every day will bring variety and learnings as you engage with our customers from all walks of life. You will build rapport and actively promote our wide range of resources, supporting our community with lifelong learning and discovery. In addition, you'll display, maintain and promote physical collections and use your digital literacy skills to troubleshoot with our customers.

The hours of work for this opportunity are as follows:

Sunday - 9:30am to 4pm

Monday - 8:30am to 5pm

Tuesday - 8:30am to 5pm

Wednesday - 9:45am to 6:15pm

Thursday - 11:45am to 8:15pm

About you

Collaborative and positive, you enjoy working with others and are naturally able to relate to a wide range of people, particularly youth who spend time in this space. Your previous customer service experience means you are confident dealing with queries in person and via phone or email. You have strong digital skills along with a good understanding of library resources and their importance in our communities.

About the team

The Arts, Culture and Lifelong Learning Team look after our network of libraries and service centres across Selwyn and the Edge Connector Outreach Services and our digital library resources. When you become part of our ACLL team you are joining a team who make a difference in our community, every day.

What we can offer

For several years Selwyn has been experiencing rapid and sustained economic and population growth. With this growth comes a vibrant community, fantastic facilities and exciting career opportunities!

There's a great range of benefits for permanent staff including:

• Great work-life balance with the flexibility to work in with your commitments
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing and volunteer leave
• Free parking
• Three days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Discounts with local and national businesses
• Career coaching and development

Our values are important to all of us and represent the way we work: · Be a good human · Be brave - Think differently · Better together.

Selwyn District Council honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We are committed to working with our Treaty partner to deliver on our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We value the safety of our young people and kamahi and therefore appointments for this role are subject to a satisfactory safety check including a police vetting process and a pre employment drug and alcohol test.

Applications Close: 10 Nov 2023