Senior Schools Library Officer

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Are you passionate about getting young people reading?

Do you have the drive to champion our school's library service and the confidence to build strong relationships with our schools?

As our Senior Schools Library Officer, you'll help shape and deliver excellent library services to schools across Sheffield and beyond. You will lead a small and dedicated team to make sure our traded schools library service continues to thrive.

What you'll do:

• Build positive partnerships with schools and other key people to promote our traded school library service.
• Oversee and promote high-quality, customer-focused library services to schools.
• Select inspiring books (fiction and non-fiction) that brings the curriculum to life and engages children and young people to develop a lifelong love of reading.
• Lead and support a team of supervisors and assistants.
• Manage budgets and resources for the service.
• Help develop new ideas and improve our offer for schools.

About you:

• You're a confident communicator who can build relationships and influence others.
• You're passionate about reading and are confident and knowledgeable about how schools library support school curriculums at all age groups.
• You have experience managing teams and budgets.
• You enjoy working with different people and thrive in a busy environment.

If you're ready to lead our school's library team and help schools to inspire the next generation of readers, we'd love to hear from you.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly. It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.