Librarian

ROLE SUMMARY:

King’s School The Crown is built in extensive grounds offering world-class educational and sporting facilities, enabling students to pursue a diverse range of interests. Our purpose-Built Campus of over 40,000m2 located in the heart of Cairo's most prestigious gated community, The Crown, 6th October city. This school is the first in the region to cater to students from 3 months up to 18 years with state-of-the-art facilities, including: a full football field, 400m athletic track , 25m 8 lane covered swimming pool with learner pool, indoor multi-purpose sports hall, outdoor multipurpose courts and a 522 seat Performing Arts theatre.

We are looking for a School Librarian to join our team. Reporting to the Executive Head, you will be responsible for the management, development and for promoting the library and/or other learning resource centre, to ensure that all students and staff have ready access to as broad and relevant a range of reading matter, reference materials, research tools and information services as possible, in order to support teaching and learning throughout the school, facilitate independent learning, and encourage reading for pleasure.

To be successful in this role you will have experience working as part of a fast-paced marketing team, media buying, and be up to date with the latest marketing trends to deliver best-in-class campaigns. You will have critical thinking skills and experience and be comfortable creating spreadsheets to track and analyse data. 

We are looking for someone that brings energy and confidence to the business with a proactive approach.

The ideal candidate will be a positive, focused, enthusiastic team player that performs well under pressure, who is receptive to new ideas and direction with a keen interest on future design trends with effective communication and 
organisation skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To create and develop a climate to promote and support reading for pleasure across the school.
• Plan and oversee the organisation of the school Learning Resource Centre, including the selection, acquisition, indexing, classification, promotion and maintenance of books and non-book resources.
• Develop the Learning Resource Centre/Library Management systems and structures to ensure it runs smoothly.
• Support curriculum leaders by selecting library resources tailored to their curriculum.
• Prepare resources for the teaching of Library skills and deliver these alongside English staff in reading lessons.
• Coordinate events and activities such as World Book Day, author visits, exhibitions, displays, reading schemes and House Competitions.
• Deliver library orientation sessions for the students at the beginning of the academic year, information retrieval workshops and promote reading in all aspects of student’s lives.
• Reinforce the Library Use Guidelines throughout the academic year through contact with Student Leadership and the Heads of the Schools.
• Ensure a high standard of displays, information posters, brochures and promotional material to enhance the standard of appearance of the library in order to provide an attractive environment conducive to the promotion of reading and purposeful study.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the services provided by the library/learning resource centre to ensure that it is meeting the needs of the school community.
• Disseminate information regarding newly acquired resources, potential acquisitions/subscriptions to Academic Department Heads.
• Implement and design a ‘virtual’ library to encourage reading in the digital age.
• Develop a social media presence for Literacy and the Library using the school’s social media platforms, newsletter and website.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Library & Information Science, or equivalent diploma.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience of working as an international school Librarian.
• Fluency in English at an academic level.
• Information retrieval skills.
• Functional knowledge of the Dewey Decimal system.  
• Awareness of current developments in library/resource centre management.
• Knowledge of issues related to Safeguarding children in school.
• Ability to deliver library related activities and enrichments to pupils.

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT

Inspired Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practices and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.