Head of Collections
1 week ago
**_(Permanent Full-Time)_**:
**_ Internal Posting_**:
The West Vancouver Memorial Library is well known as an innovative and award-winning library that prioritizes inclusion, a learning culture, organizational integrity, and enhancing community through our programs, services, and relationships. Located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, West Vancouver is a vibrant community on the North Shore and home to parks, beaches, and to sports, recreation, and arts amenities.
The West Vancouver Memorial Library has an opening for a Permanent Full-Time Head of Collections. Reporting to the Assistant Director, this position is responsible for managing the operations of the Collections Department for the Library and supporting the Library with strategic planning, policy development, and service assessment as it relates to the Department.
Responsibilities include:
- Overseeing and coordinating multiple specialized services or functions by planning, organizing, managing and evaluating the operations of the department while ensuring that services meet the needs of staff and the public;
- Managing the lifecycle of physical and digital collections, including inventory management, selection, cataloguing, processing, deaccessioning, and shelving. Conducting and implementing process improvements to achieve efficiencies and optimum uses of resources;
- Performing advanced administrative database functions such as maintenance related to collection and borrower records, authority control, and establishing and editing loan rules and load tables;
- Ensuring an effective and efficient work team by providing management direction to employees and planning, assigning, and supervising work. Ensuring excellent customer service is delivered by the Circulation, Collections, and Tech Services teams. Ensuring optimum staff productivity through selection, training, development and motivation;
- Completing statistical and operational analysis and producing reports and documentation related to collection usage and borrowers;
- Overseeing departmental work plans, capital and operating budget requests, quarterly and annual financial reports, and evaluation reports;
- Participating in employee and labour relations matters; and
- Participating in other duties and special projects as assigned.
Position Status:
Exempt - Permanent Full-Time
Hours of Work:
35 hours per week (hours and days of work may vary)
**Salary**:
$109,000.00 - $122,600.00 per annum (2024 rates)
Closing Date:
11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 17, 2025
To Apply:
- We want to thank all applicants, however only those chosen for an interview will be contacted._
0710-25-EXEMPT-08
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