Branch Manager, Southwest Regional Library
Pay Range: $$36.05-$40.20/hour
Annually: $74,984 – 83,616
Job Posting Closing on: Friday, January 31, 2025
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
The Fort Worth Public Library is hiring a Branch Manager for the Southwest Regional Library, a 25,000 sq. ft. library that leads the system in circulation and offers a high volume of original programming for the community. Southwest is open seven days a week and has a staff of approximately 21 including six staff that directly report to the branch manager. The ideal candidate for this position is customer-focused, enthusiastic about bringing library services to people in the community, and comfortable working with diverse populations including people of all ages, backgrounds, dispositions, and abilities. This position will be an excellent fit for someone with five - seven years of facility/personnel management experience and experience building sustainable community relationships. All applicants must submit a cover letter, and resume to be considered.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree from an ALA accredited college or university with major course work in library and information science
- five (5) years of increasing responsible professional library experience,
- including three (3) years of administrative and supervisory responsibility
- Ability to work evenings and weekends.
- Ability to work at/travel to various locations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of management principles and practices including goal setting, budget development/implementation, and staff development and motivation.
- Knowledge of modern professional library principles, practices, and procedures.
- Skill in using exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills that build and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external customers.
- Skill in hiring, motivating, developing, and directing staff in a collaborative team environment
- Ability to communicate with customers in Spanish.
The Branch Manager’s job responsibilities include:
- Planning, organizing, and directing the day-to-day operations and staff of a branch library to ensure efficient and effective public service.
- Providing excellent customer service, including answering questions and helping customers locate materials and services of interest.
- Interpreting policy and procedures and resolving daily operational and customer issues.
- Ensuring that the location is well-ordered, appealing, and inviting; Manages the location’s overall collection, including promotion, maintenance, and weeding.
- Supervising staff, including planning and assigning work, performance management, scheduling, addressing complaints and resolving problems; training staff on basic job functions.
- Planning, implementing, and evaluating local outreach programs and services in conjunction with staff.
- Evaluates/assesses Library standards and services at location.
- Assisting customers with basic computer needs and emerging technologies.
Working Conditions
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking and repetitive motions
Physical Demand
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.