Public Library Executive Director

A successful candidate for the Library Director I position should possess exceptional leadership skills, dedication to customer focus, and the ability to promote the mission, vision, and values of LS&S through their actions.

Requirements

• MLIS degree is required.
• Three years of supervisory experience is preferred.
• Three years of progressively responsible library managerial experience and/or administrative functions of a library or equivalent knowledge preferred.
• Experience analyzing and applying financial reports and library-related data (usage, demographics, trends, etc.).
• Basic understanding of programming and financial management.
• Experience in a role that requires frequent interaction with patrons, fulfilling the requests of patrons, and responsibility for addressing patron issues, questions, and suggestions.
• The Library Director should demonstrate competence in all of the following:
• Adaptability: Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, versatile, and/or tolerant in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
• Demonstrate ethical conduct with integrity and honesty: It is expected to understand ethical principles and business practices, ensuring that your actions and those of others align with these standards and reflect the organization's core values.
• Build Relationships: To achieve the organization's goals, establish and maintain positive working relationships with others internally and externally.
• Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen, and write thoroughly and timely, using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
• Creativity/Innovation: Develop new and unique ways to improve the operations of the library and to create new opportunities.
• Focus on Client Needs: Anticipate, understand, and respond to the needs of internal and external clients to meet or exceed their expectations within the organizational parameters.
• Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Lead: Positively influence others to achieve results that are in the best interest of the organization.
• Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency, and risks, and make clear decisions that are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
• Organize: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress toward goals, and track details, data, information, and activities.
• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create and implement action plans, and evaluate the process and results.
• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
• Think Strategically: Assesses options and actions based on trends and conditions in the environment and the vision and values of the organization.