Library Customer Service Supervisor (Weekend)

Part Time Permanent Position
Saturdays 11.30am-4pm and Sundays 12.45pm-4pm (7.75 hrs per week)
Band 5 - Salary Range $76,355 - $87,925 per annum (pro rata) + 11% Super
About Melton City Council
The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality — one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.
We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.
The Opportunity
Providing leadership and support to staff on weekends, supervising the weekend operation of Library and Learning Hub sites, ensuring optimal standards of Customer Service, presentation and operation, and ensuring customers have a positive experience in their use library facilities.
This position services both internal and external stakeholders, including library members, library staff, and the general public.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead staff in the delivery of high-quality Customer Service at Council’s library facilities that is responsive to community needs.
• Supervise the weekend operation of a Library and Learning Hub site, ensuring optimal standards of Customer Service, presentation and operation.
• Create a welcoming experience by engaging with customers throughout the library, joining and inducting new library members, and providing tours of library facilities.
• Participate in rostered Library Customer Service shifts at library facilities or outreach points and proactively engage with customers to maximise their use of resources, equipment, technology and online platforms.
• Facilitate and oversee the delivery of weekend events or program sessions and provide input into the planning of weekend programs for children and adults.

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About you
To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Professional membership (librarian) of the Australian Library and Information Association, or demonstrated progress towards such a qualification, together with relevant public library experience.
• Tertiary qualification with significant relevant work experience, or lesser formal qualifications with relevant work skills, or relevant experience and work skills.
• Experience in developing program plans and facilitating programs.
• A current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.
• Availability to work Saturday and Sunday afternoons each week at library facilities in Caroline Springs and Melton.

Culture and Values
Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.
We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture

Benefits
There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:

• 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave (As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks pro rata)*
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)*
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (

) * Wellbeing initiatives

• Subsidised Uniforms

*These benefits are pro rata.
How To Apply
If you require further information about the position, please contact Nick Tomé, Team Leader Library Customer Experience on 9747 5913.
Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.
To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.
All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace.
We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.
Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.
Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday 6 March 2024.