Librarian at Wellspring College

Wellspring College is a model school established in 2003 by astute and seasoned academics and education administrators who commonly share the vision of returning standards to the nation's educational system. We harness every opportunity to give our students sound spiritual, academic, mental and social development. We are committed to providing a challenging, dynamic, relevant and coherent curriculum, which promotes lifelong learning and produces responsible, independent critical thinkers and learners who act ethically and confidently in their personal career and community life.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Librarian

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
• Collaborate with subject teachers and coordinators to ensure appropriate library resources are available to support teaching and learning.
• Provide the expertise necessary to ensure that library provision is aligned with the mission, goals and objectives of the school and materials are appropriate for use.
• Actively promotes reading and library use through activities such as book review, book club, displays, publications, reading programs and special events.
• Instill a culture of reading and life long learning in the students and ensure equitable access to information.
• To manage and be in charge of the library and supervise users (students and staff) at all times.
• To carry out regular maintenance of library materials, including book withdrawals and returns to maintain the relevant collection that supports student learning.
• To carry out classification, maintain the cataloging of books and library resources, supervising labelling, protection, display and shelving of library books and materials.
• Build and maintain relationships with external organizations and stakeholders to develop and promote an effective school library programme.
• Responsible for recommending and ordering of new relevant materials to ensure a current and balanced collection of library resources.
• To assists with tasks related to borrowing /returning library books/resource materials by helping students find resources for class assignments, inspecting returned books for damages and sending out due notices for unreturned items.
• He/she will notify students when reserved books are available.
• Ensure appropriate security measures are in place to protect library resources and effectively manage and track books overdue for return.

Requirements
Person Specification:

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Library and Information Science.
• Membership of the Library Association of Nigeria
• At least 5 years’ post-graduation experience in Library management /learning resource center including e library
• Good organizational, cataloging and documentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Creative and presentation skills
• Team player
• Written and verbal communication skills
• The Job holder must be a book lover and possess the ability to inspire children with the passion for reading.

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using "School Librarian" as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.