Librarian

Description

At UHS, we believe that the deepest learning requires collaboration among people who embody a diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, and perspectives. Building and sustaining a community composed of a wide range of social and cultural identities requires that all members have the resources they need to thrive. To this end, we must further our self- knowledge, our ability to communicate effectively across individual differences, and our capacity to cultivate an anti-racist, anti-oppressive school culture mindful of systemic barriers to equity. We do this work on a personal, professional, and an institutional level, recognizing that our community is part of a larger and more complex world.

The Dennis Collins Library at San Francisco University High School serves as a hub on campus for learning, research, fostering a culture of reading, and student activity. We are seeking a new librarian starting in the 2026-27 school year.

Salary Description

Annual Salary. Salary is based on a scale that is tied to years of relevant experience. Current full-time faculty salaries run from $83,995-$162,757.

Qualifications: A master’s degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association (or from a master’s level program in library and information studies accredited or recognized by the appropriate national body of another country) is the appropriate professional degree for school librarians.

Experience: Candidates should have experience in at least two of the following categories:

• Experience working in a library for at least 3 years
• Demonstrated teaching experience
• Experience working with teenagers
  
  

Reports to: Director of Collaborative Programs

Job Goals

• To ensure that students and faculty/staff are effective users of ideas and information
• To empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information
• To collaborate with teachers to design and implement lessons and units of instruction.
• To ensure free and equitable access to information.
• To be an integrated member of the UHS community.
  
  

Requirements

As Librarian

• Proactively seeks to collaborate with faculty on research and information needs of students.
• Provides leadership and expertise in developing policy and establishing curriculum related to all types of information literacy, including media and AI literacy.
• Develops and maintains a collection of resources appropriate to the curriculum, our students, and the teaching styles and instructional strategies used within the school community.
• Manages, curates, utilizes, and demonstrates online databases and other resources.
• Uses an OPAC (Koha) to catalog and circulate books.
• Organizes the collection for maximum and effective use including thematic displays highlighting history, culture, and literature.
• Creates and maintains an environment that is inviting, safe, flexible, and conducive to student learning in the library.
• Represents the library in schoolwide faculty, committee, and department meetings.
• Promotes the library and library program within the school community.
• Communicates to the community about interesting and new resources within the library and responds to information inquiries.
• Encourages students to become enthusiastic readers by acquiring and promoting appropriate titles as well as designing new ways for students to become involved with the library.
• Cooperates and networks with other libraries, librarians, and agencies to provide access to resources outside the school, and guides students to connect with them.
• Stays current in professional practices and developments, information technologies, and educational research applicable to school library programs
• Evaluates, promotes, and uses existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning, and supplement school resources.
• Models effective strategies for developing multiple literacies
  
  

As Teacher and Faculty

• Works with faculty to create and teach structured research and information literacy skills programs as an integral part of the curriculum and in preparation for lifelong research and information literacy.
• Teaches students fundamental and advanced aspects of research, including:
• Distinguishing between types of sources (primary vs. secondary; academic vs. popular).
• Understanding the structure of academic articles and how to use them.
• Effective search techniques for both print and online resources.
• How and when to cite sources.
• Empowers students, in classes and individually, to become critical thinkers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
• Collaborates with teachers and students to design and teach engaging inquiry and learning experiences and assessments that incorporate multiple literacies and foster critical thinking.
• Works with students to:
• Develop transferable skills to make them confident and competent consumers of the shifting information landscape.
• Build the competency to find and assess information for academic and personal purposes.
• Understand how to build on prior knowledge and construct new knowledge using relevant sources.
• Engage in the world of information and all its formats.
  

As a School Community Member

• Willing to take on responsibilities like mentoring, club sponsorship, and activity chaperoning.
• Attends faculty meetings and professional development.
• Participates in school-wide meetings and community days.
  
  

To Apply

If you are interested in being a candidate, please submit a résumé and cover letter using the online application system.

NON-DISCRIMINATION

San Francisco University High School is an equal-opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. School policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.