The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is hiring an Online Student Success Librarian to join our Colorado Online Academic Affairs team. If you excel at building relationships and want an opportunity to help students across Colorado develop information literacy, this position may be for you! CCCS provides generous leave, excellent benefits, and flexible work schedules, including hybrid-remote work within the state of Colorado.
Examples of Duties
In this role you will develop and maintain the CCCS Central Library’s information literacy and student success program, designed to serve its diverse student population and support the CCCS student learning and success goals. You will act as the point person for faculty, instructors, and students for online information literacy sessions, develop tutorials and videos, manage the Central Library’s chat service, conduct outreach, and provide support to the Rural College Consortium’s libraries and constituents. This position co-chairs the CCCS Student Services and Information Literacy committee and collaborates with campus librarians, learning designers, the academic course design teams, and Academic Technology to embed and incorporate library and information literacy resources into course shells.
- Develop, implement, and assess the CCCS Central Library’s information literacy program.
- Working with faculty, develop and teach information literacy classes online to meet the intricacies of the assignment and to achieve student proficiency in information literacy.
- Develop and deliver student-facing information, including digital and visual literacies workshops.
- Create, maintain, and promote information literacy materials on the CCCS Central Library’s website via subject specific Research Guides using the LibGuides platform.
- Explore, recommend, and use academic and library technologies to create and provide library learning objects to support information literacy goals.
- Provide professional library reference services via phone, email, virtual consultations, and chat to a variety of patrons from a diverse community that includes students, faculty, staff, and community members online from Colorado Online and across CCCS.
- Provide embedded librarian services as requested, including monitoring discussion boards and engaging with students in a timely and effective manner, and research assistance.
Required Qualifications
- Master of Library Science or Master of Library and Information Science from an accredited college or university.
- Two years of experience providing or planning library support to online learners.
- Experience with planning and facilitating professional development, workshops, community events, and/or library instruction sessions.
To view the full job announcement and to apply, visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/cccs/systemoffice/jobs/4612551/online-student-success-librarian.
