COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIBRARIAN (BUSINESS SERVICES)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Program Services
UBC Library | Vancouver Campus
50% FTE, Term from Jan 3, 2017 – Dec 22, 2017
Anticipated Start Date: Jan 3, 2017
UBC LIBRARY
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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITY:
The Community Engagement Librarian (Business Services) is obliged for a government and growth of a Library’s entrepreneurship and community-focused business programs, including a Small Business Accelerator (SBA) module and a endless web-based investigate assets. This position is also obliged for conducting overdo with faculty, students, staff and alumni in a “e@UBC” (Entrepreneurship during UBC) programs and a broader business community, with a idea of providing collaborative and innovative services within a Library.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Graduate grade from an accredited propagandize of library, archival and information science.Knowledge of library systems and applications with clever information record and digital education skills.
- Knowledge of anxiety and enlightening methodologies
- Excellent analytical, organizational and coordination skills
- Evidence of a proactive, user-centred prophesy of services
- Effective created skills and an seductiveness in business essay for web sites
- A clever use commitment, coherence and a eagerness to assume a accumulation of assignments.
- Experience building partnerships and justification of successful collaborations around a sustenance of programs and services.
- Ability and unrestrained to learn users about business resources and investigate strategies, and to lift out projects, both exclusively and as partial of a team.
- Ability to recognize, honour and work effectively with people and groups with different perspectives and backgrounds. Takes beginning in training about denunciation and issues relating to equity and diversity.
- Ability to rise and say mild and prolific operative relations and rivet in workplace culture.
- Works to build a group sourroundings built on certain operative relationships, provides superintendence and resources to teams while guileless them to excel
- Models and demonstrates good communication by active listening and elegant exploration and open to providing and receiving timely, constructive feedback.
Preferred:
- Research imagination with business novel and resources for marketplace and attention analysis, including specialized databases.
- Experience participating in bill formulation and assessing a value of expenditures, for a department, project, team, or committee.
- Work believe in an educational library or educational environment applicable to a position.
- Knowledge of search, discovery, indexing, and retrieval systems.
DUTIES:
- Responsible for a persisting growth and upkeep of a Small Business Accelerator (sba.ubc.ca) Program website and web-based investigate assets, including though not singular to a collection of 100+ industry-specific Accelerator guides, a SBA blog, BC Business Support Directory, delegate marketplace investigate videos, and amicable media channels.
- Collects, develops and evaluates open collections associated to business growth to accommodate a information needs of inner tiny businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Works with campus and village partners to rise and support initiatives that residence a specific needs of inner tiny businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Provides relationship and module support to campus-wide groups such E@UBC.
- Supervises and co-supervises connoisseur students aiding with a Learning Centres’ entrepreneurship and community-focused business programs.
- Identifies, promotes, and advocates for users’ needs within a Library associated to products, tools, services, venues, and opportunities that inspire learning, research, publication, and grant within a University community.
- Develops and offers informational consultations, educational workshops or seminars, as required.
- Works closely with UBC Library colleagues and campus partners to support a University’s village rendezvous and creation strategies.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Reports to a Assistant Director (Community Engagement), Irving K Barber Learning Centre and works as partial of a tiny group of Community Engagement Librarians. Supervises and co-supervises students during a connoisseur level. Consults with colleagues both within a section and opposite a UBC Library system, as required. Works with faculty, staff, students and partners within a University and opposite British Columbia to rise and say delegate marketplace investigate programs. Participates in a recruitment, training and organisation of connoisseur assistants.
TERMS OF APPOINTMENT AND SALARY:
This position is a 50% FTE tenure position from Jan 3, 2017 until Dec 22, 2017.
We are seeking applications from Librarians with adult to 5 years of experience. However, all inner possibilities will be deliberate regardless of years of believe and are speedy to apply. Salary will be co-ordinate with believe and academic/professional qualifications.
UBC hires on a basement of consequence and is committed to practice equity. The University generally welcomes applications from manifest minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority passionate orientations and gender identities, and others with a skills and believe to rivet productively with different communities. We inspire all competent field to apply. However, Canadian adults and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Applications will include: a minute of focus that includes a matter of citizenship/immigration standing and indicates a candidate’s education, training and work believe in a areas listed above; a minute and stream curriculum vitae.
To perspective a finish pursuit outline and to contention an application, greatfully revisit a UBC Careers page during facultycareers.ubc.ca/24951 by midnight on Dec 4th, 2016.
