Head Librarian

• Participate in planning learning experiences by providing group and individual instruction, assessing student progress, and evaluating activities;

• Join teachers and other internal and external stakeholders to plan and implement meaningful experiences that will promote a love of reading and learning;

• Plan and provide professional development opportunities within the school and the community for all;

• Provide leadership and expertise in the selection, acquisition, evaluation, and organization of information resources and technologies in all formats;

• Provide expertise in the ethical use of information;

• Ensure equitable access and responsible use of information by developing and maintaining a collection of resources appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and the teaching styles and instructional strategies used within the school;

• Cooperate and network with other libraries, librarians, agencies and stakeholders to facilitate access to resources outside the school;

• Model effective strategies for developing multiple literacies like text, advertising, media, online, etc.;

• Evaluate, use and promote technologies to support independent and teacher-driven teaching and learning;

• Supplement school resources by connecting the school and classroom with the wider learning community;

• Communicate with students and teachers;

• Facilitate round-the-clock access to library services;

• Guide software and hardware evaluation for library and school use;

• Develop fair processes for software and hardware evaluation;

• Understand and promote copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property;

• Assist student and teacher patrons with understanding and observance of copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property;

• Organizing the library's collection of resources for maximum and effective use;

• Empower students to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skilful researchers, and ethical;

• Guide students to read for understanding, and for exposure to diversity of viewpoints and genres, and for pleasure;

• Use information to build on prior knowledge and to construct new knowledge;

• Embrace the world of information and all its established and emergent formats;

• Facilitate peer work for successful collaboration for learning;

• Define library programme policies;

• Guide and direct all activities related to steering policies;

• Maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the school library programme;

• Strategically plan for the continuous improvement of the school library programme;

• Effectively manage personnel, resources, and facilities;

• Develop and implement programme goals and objectives;

• Support programme goals and planning through evidence-based outcomes;

• Generate evidence that demonstrates efficacy and relevance of the school library;

• Prepare, justify and administer the school library programme budget to support specific program goals;

• Establish processes and procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, resource sharing resources amongst schools, staff and students.

Qualifications

— Bachelor’s degree in a related field from a recognized/ accredited university (required)

— Teaching License/ Certification/ PGCE, etc. (required)

— Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in education (required)

— Relevant experience in IB schools (preferred)

— English language competency (oral and written): Native/ near native (for international hires – required), proficient (for national hires - preferred)

— Chinese language competency (oral and written): Native/ near native (for national hires – required), proficient (for international hires - preferred)

— P. R. China work permit and visa minimum requirements (for international hires – required)

To apply, please submit your resume to resume@alariss.com and note why you believe you'd be a good fit.