Administrator, Evening and Weekend Circulation

Description:

Responsible for management and oversight of library circulation activities on evenings and weekend; supervise student workers, handle reading room maintenance and related tasks. This is a 32 hour per week, 52 week position.

The salary for this role is $41,588 annually.

Working at Juilliard

Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education. The school’s mission is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world so that they may achieve their fullest potential as artists, leaders, and global citizens.

Excellence and professionalism are important guides in how we go about our work, but we also connect to the mission as individuals in the workplace. We thrive because of our variety of backgrounds and our ability to be open and honest, and we also thrive because we enjoy each other’s company. We believe that each employee has the responsibility to help shape the Juilliard organizational culture, and we provide opportunities to participate in team-building throughout the year. Our organizational values focus on excellence, creative enterprise, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

We encourage you to read more about how we achieve our mission on our website, juilliard.edu.

Role Responsibilities:

• Train, supervise, and schedule student workers who staff the library circulation desk.
• Perform circulation activities on library Innovative Interfaces Sierra system.
• Handle reading room maintenance, shelving, shelf-reading, and general stacks maintenance.
• In conjunction with other members of the circulation team, professional librarians, and student workers, handle annual library collection inventory.
• Manage library holds for Evening Division and Preparatory Division student accounts.
• Perform monetary transactions on library cash register.
• Assist patrons with all circulation matters, including disputes about missing items, fines, and overdue materials.
• Assist with oversight of Academic Commons.
• Manage library new books shelf.
• Assist with management of library reserves.
• Prepare and revise procedure manuals and related documentation, as required.
• May perform reference transactions when a Librarian is unavailable.
• During the nine months of the academic year, work Saturday, Sunday, and selected evening hours.
• Perform related duties as assigned to support the School and department operations.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in music.
• Previous library experience.
• Knowledge of classical music, including the ability to read music.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as the ability to function efficiently within a busy and demanding work environment.
• Ability to deal calmly and effectively with patron issues.
• Strong commitment to library service.
• Ability to work with a wide range of constituencies (staff, students, faculty, and administrators) with diplomacy and tact
• Understanding of the mission of The Juilliard School as well as the School’s commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging

Nondiscrimination Policy:

The Juilliard School is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its relations with its faculty, staff, students, and other members of the Juilliard community, and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, alienage, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, physical or mental disability, medical condition, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, partnership status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal law. This nondiscrimination policy covers, but is not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, benefits, rates of pay and other forms of compensation as well as student admission, access, and treatment in school programs and activities.