VACANCY NOTICE V/AD/LIB/1/2024
The European College Institute (EUI), based mostly in Florence, Italy is organising a variety process based mostly on {qualifications} and assessments to attract up a reserve checklist for the publish of
Outreach Librarian within the Library (Non permanent Agent, kind 2a, AST03)
The European College Institute (EUI) seeks a dynamic and extremely motivated Outreach Librarian to develop and implement efficient communication methods to advertise the Library’s companies and assets to the educational neighborhood.
The profitable candidate will work to construct stronger relationships with college members and tutorial models and with companies. They may present personalized communication assist that meets their particular wants, together with growing communication plans to advertise analysis initiatives, organizing seminars and workshops on info literacy. They may collaborate with college to combine Library assets into their course curricula.
Who We Are
The European College Institute (EUI) at a look:
- a world organisation arrange in 1972;
- a analysis college focusing completely on post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral research, and superior analysis;
- positioned within the hills overlooking the town of Florence, Italy.
The Institute additionally hosts the Historic Archives of the European Union.
Extra on our Establishment: https://www.eui.eu/About
Our Unit
The EUI Library (at present underneath LITS – Library and Info Applied sciences Service) helps analysis on the Institute with a group of 20 librarians and data specialists. Over 40 years of funding in collections, companies and infrastructure have resulted in an internationally recognised social science analysis library, valued for its multi-national character and the prime quality of its collections with a particular emphasis on Europe.
Many of the Library’s print holdings are on open shelving. As well as, the Library gives its customers entry to an intensive assortment of databases, full textual content e-journals, eBooks and digital working papers. The Library has the standing of European Documentation Centre (EDC), an official depository of EU publications and paperwork. The EUI subscribes to the precept of Open Entry. Library employees strives to work with the educational neighborhood to extend the content material, protection and visibility of the EUI analysis repository, Cadmus.
Your Key Obligations
Underneath the supervision of the LITS Director, the Outreach Librarian will work to speak successfully with the EUI neighborhood, improve its outreach efforts, and construct stronger relationships with college members and tutorial departments.
The primary duties might embrace the next:
Illustration/ Communication
- Representing the Library internally and externally, together with participation in working teams;
- Enhancing the Library’s communications efforts to college students, college, and employees by way of numerous communication channels, together with social media, e-mail, newsletters, and focused messaging;
- Offering customised communication assist to the EUI’s tutorial neighborhood, together with growing communication plans to advertise analysis initiatives, organising seminars and workshops on info literacy, and collaborating with college to combine library assets into their course curricula;
- Collaborating with the Communications Service guaranteeing compliance with the EUI’s Communications Technique and the final pointers regarding EUI communications, together with the EUI’s company/ visible identification;
- Making ready and disseminating information and data inside and outdoors the Library;
- Selling and searching for suggestions on library companies and assets;
- Publicising and selling library info and digital literacy pointers.
Coverage/ Technique Making
- Growing and implementing an efficient communication and outreach methods to advertise the Library’s companies and assets to the educational neighborhood;
Degree of autonomy and accountability
- Reporting on to the Director; excessive degree of autonomy.
Managing Folks/ Position in HR processes
- Teaching and supervising the work of trainees and, the place relevant, different employees.
Degree of Experience
- Appearing as subject material specialist for the outreach actions for Library companies and assets;
- Staying abreast of developments within the fields of outreach and engagement, person expertise, design, and accessibility.
Funds Administration
- Contributing by offering insights and information, for instance for the drafting of the Library’s annual report;
- Making ready finances estimates.
Position in administrative processes
- Main the Library’s actions to constantly create a pleasant, inviting, and extremely usable expertise for all customers, each by way of graphic and digital design of library net and programs interfaces, and thru outreach supplies corresponding to posters, movies, indicators and wayfinding supplies for the premises of the Library;
- Managing, organising and updating the library website and social media;
- Growing assessments to grasp and enhance how customers expertise library areas;
- Contributing to Library’s programmes and initiatives by offering administrative and logistical assist and dealing with numerous administrative duties.
Your Key Competencies
All employees on the EUI share the next competencies:
- Ethics and integrity
- Working in a multicultural atmosphere
- Accountability
- Delivering high quality and outcomes
Competencies wanted for the function embrace:
- Undertaking & Process Administration
- Working with others
- Sharing Data
- Communication
- Data – IT (XML, HTML, ILS, CMS)
- Stakeholders Orientation
- Important and analytical abilities
The competencies talked about above could also be assessed on the written take a look at and/or interview stage.
Learn extra on EUI Competency Framework
What We Supply
- A task in an inspiring neighborhood of younger students with an unique concentrate on grasp, doctoral and post-doctoral research;
- A very multicultural neighborhood of 1100 teachers in any respect profession levels and administrative employees of roughly 85 totally different nationalities;
- The dedication to a real tradition of equality, variety and inclusion, and to attracting, encouraging and retaining a various and extremely certified workforce;
- A world-class analysis library, the Historic Archives of the European Union, and plenty of different wonderful analysis services;
- Language programs and gentle abilities coaching alternatives;
- Entry to all EUI services: library, crèche, cafeteria, fitness center, participation in seminars and workshops;
- Aggressive wage package deal together with well being and pension plan;
- A wholesome work-life steadiness in a family-friendly atmosphere.
Learn extra on Work and Lifetime of EUI Help Employees.
How To Apply
Functions should be submitted electronically utilizing the on-line software type accessible at
https://www.eui.eu/About/JobOpportunities/Open-competitions-for-administrative-posts
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 29/02/2024 at 23:59 CET
Earlier than finishing the web software type you’re invited to learn ANNEXES I & II that symbolize an integral a part of this emptiness discover.
Annex I – Eligibility and Choice Standards
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
On the time limit for on-line purposes, you could fulfil all the next basic and particular situations:
1. Common situations
- Being a nationwide of a Member State of the European Union;
- Having fun with full rights as a citizen attested by a latest extract from judicial data and/or certificates of fine conduct proving no earlier conviction for a prison or administrative offence that would name into query their suitability for performing the duties of the publish;
- Having fulfilled any obligations imposed by the legal guidelines on navy service;
- Being bodily match to carry out the duties.
2. Particular situations
1. Training ({Qualifications})
- A degree of post-secondary schooling attested by a diploma, or
- A degree of secondary schooling attested by a diploma giving entry to increased schooling, and applicable skilled expertise of at the very least three years. This skilled expertise can be thought-about a part of the tutorial qualification and won’t be taken under consideration within the required numbers {of professional} expertise underneath 2.3.
2.2. Data of Languages
- Foremost language: have an intensive data of 1 official language of the European Union; and
- Second language: a passable data of one other official language of the European Union to the extent mandatory for the efficiency of the duties.
2.3. Skilled expertise
By the deadline for purposes, and along with the {qualifications} required above, candidates will need to have at the very least three years of related skilled expertise gained after acquiring the diploma required underneath 2.1.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Functions that fulfil the above Eligibility Standards can be assessed in opposition to the next necessities:
Important
- No less than 3 years of related work expertise in library communication or in an identical place, together with liaising with scholarly, librarian, native or worldwide companions;
- Confirmed expertise with instruments and analysis infrastructure utilized in library environments (e.g., OPACS, discovery instruments, and many others.) and with implementation of library UX strategies and instruments;
- Confirmed expertise in growing and implementing engagement and dissemination actions and in speaking and selling library actions, companies and collections;
- Glorious data of English, each spoken and written (CEFR degree: C1 or above).
Advantageous
- Diploma in Info/Communications Sciences or Library and Info Sciences;
- Work expertise in tutorial and/or analysis libraries;
- Confirmed expertise with platforms corresponding to Ex Libris Alma/Primo, particularly in configuring and customising finish person companies and interfaces;
- Expertise in creating multimedia supplies and managing social media channels.
Candidates invited to the take a look at and interview part may additionally be assessed in opposition to the competencies listed underneath the “Your key competencies” part on web page 3.
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