Librarian towards the adult department for Kiruna City Library
Kiruna, Sverige
Type of Employment Part-time
Job position Librarian
Work model On location
Application due date 17 December 2024
Are you the one?
For a vibrant Kiruna. One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are Kiruna, we say. We are the caregiver who holds old mom's hand and the teacher who makes little brother read his first words. We are the childminder who makes someone grow every day and the social worker who does what it takes to change lives. We are the personal assistant who gives freedom and the librarian who brings literature close. We are the home support workers who drive to villages in blizzards like the midnight sun to be there. We are hundreds of skills, thousands of people and generations of experience who together safeguard, nurture, inspire, teach, save lives, innovate, move cities, stand up for each other and care for people. With pride and care. From mountains to cities. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for life, people and the future in Kiruna municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what is important? WORK TASKS Kiruna City Library is in an exciting time due to urban transformation and the move to the city's new cultural center. If you want to be part of creating Kiruna's future library operations, this is the position for you. Kiruna City Library includes a city library, library branches and a bookmobile. Library activities are aimed at all age groups - children, young people and adults. We are looking for a librarian for the city library who wants to be involved in developing our activities into the future and who wants to inspire reading and work to strengthen literature and the democratic society. You will be part of the city library's librarian group where you plan and organize the work together. You will be responsible for fiction and non-fiction in the adult section. This work includes media planning, purchasing, thinning, and working with reading promotion in the room and digitally with, for example, book tips and signage. Together with colleagues, you develop and implement activities both inside and outside the library, such as holding book circles or the service of booking a librarian. Kiruna is a municipality with large geographical distances and therefore it is of the utmost importance that you are also comfortable with conducting activities digitally. You thrive on freedom within a set framework and are used to planning and organizing your time independently. Evening and weekend work is included according to schedule. Kiruna City Library uses profile clothing in the public service. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who have a degree in library and information science. As a person, you are service-oriented, have good cooperation skills and are used to working independently. We also expect you to be creative and come up with your own ideas that you can put into practice. You are good at organizing your work and are able to reflect and follow up on activities to provide even better service to library users. We attach great importance to personal qualities. Driving license B is a requirement. OTHER To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the key words. We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits such as free health care where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to exchange salary for days off. We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages. Kiruna municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore refrains from contacting advertisement sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.