Library Outreach Coordinator

Clay County - Small Towns. Big Passions.

Pay:

The Outreach Coordinator is responsible for engaging the community through educational, recreational, and cultural programs that support learning, creativity, and innovation as well as personal, social, and community development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Outreach Coordinator I

Starting Pay: $20.41/hr.

• Plans, markets, and facilitates educational, recreational, and cultural programs for adults, teens, and children at locations throughout the County.
• Plans and prepares publicity for programs.
• Promotes Library events at community events and meetings.
• Collaborates with community partners to offer relevant, partner-led outreach programs.
• Maintains a catalog on ongoing programs which introducing new programs and special events in response to patron and community demand.
• Researches current trends to incorporate into programs.
• Coordinates set up and take down of outreach spaces.
• Completes 24 hours of professional development a year.
• Must be able to work a flexible schedule including evenings and weekends as a regular part of their work week.
• In case of emergency or crisis situation (hurricane, flood, etc.) position is required to respond/perform emergency and recovery duties as assigned by the County Manager or designee.
• During an emergency or crisis situation, this position will may be required to be present at the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) to provide assistance while activated.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Outreach Coordinator II

Starting Pay: $22.93/hr

• This position performs all of the duties of an Outreach Coordinator I.
• This position differentiates from an Outreach Coordinator I.
• Plans and creates content for daily social media posts, newsletters, and website updates to be posted by County Communications Office.
• Responds to social media posts.
• Acts as the primary liaison for communications purposes to include flyer creation and branch flyer checks before submitting them for approval.
• Creates informational brochures and outreach materials for planned events.

Minimum Requirements

Outreach Coordinator I:

• A High School Diploma or GED equivalent is required.
• 1-2 years of experience in a library, school, event planning, public relations, or similar setting.
• Must be able to keyboard accurately.
• Effective oral and written communication.

Outreach Coordinator II

• A High School Diploma or GED equivalent is required
• 1-2 years of experience in a library, school, event planning, public relations, social media, marketing, or similar setting.
• Must be able to keyboard accurately and have a good understanding of Microsoft Suite applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams.
• Must have a good understanding of Canva and other graphic design applications.
• Knowledge of Library policies and procedures, preferred.
• Effective oral and written communication.

All Candidates

• Valid Florida driver's license with clean driving record.
• Any combination of education and experience may be substituted, so long as it provides the desired skills, knowledge and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Supplemental Information

Regular attendance is an essential function of this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Employees may be required to perform duties, including the employee's normal work function or other emergency support functions as deemed necessary by the County, as assigned before, during, and after hazardous weather or state of local emergency.

While requirements may be representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and abilities to perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.

This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed. Employees occupying the position will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.

Working Environment and Physical Demands

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 30 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

Kneeling: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

Crouching: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Sitting: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances.

Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.

Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palms.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which, they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than a 40 db loss @ 55 HZ, 1,000 HZ and 2,000 HZ with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Repetitive motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Visual requirement equal to that for clerical administrative whose work deals largely with preparing and analyzing data and figures, accounting, transcription, computer terminal, extensive reading, etc.

The worker is subject to inside and outside environmental conditions. Tasks may risk exposure to extreme temperatures, humidity, etc.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Clay County is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetic information, or age.

Clay County is committed to providing veterans with preference in employment opportunities in accordance with Florida State Law and Federal Regulations. As part of our dedication to supporting veterans, we ensure that qualified veterans are given preferential treatment in our hiring process, in accordance with

Florida Statute 295.07

.

Eligible Veterans who believe they were discriminated against may file a complaint with the

Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs

within 60 days of receiving notice of non-selection.

Salary : $20 - $23