Library Assistant to Agnes Cultural Center

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with excellent opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us! The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day, we provide people with experiences while building, developing, and influencing today’s and tomorrow’s society. Your efforts have a significant impact on the daily lives of Gävle residents. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developing job. We ensure that Gävle grows and provides exciting experiences for its residents. Agnes Kulturhus is Gävle Municipality's new initiative for a meeting place for culture and education in the heart of Gävle. A new city library forms the foundation of this meeting place, and a co-location of the library, other cultural activities such as an art hall, and a supplementary cinema creates added value for the people of Gävle. Here, everyone should be able to meet, develop, and grow as individuals based on their own circumstances. Working hours include days, evenings, weekends, and may also include holidays. JOB DESCRIPTION Are you attracted to creating activities and guiding visitors at Gävle's new city library? If so, apply for the position of library assistant at Agnes Kulturhus! Gävle Library is in an exciting phase where we are working to develop the operations within the framework of a unified entity, Gävle Library. Join us in creating added value for the residents of Gävle! We are looking for a proactive and engaged library assistant with experience working in libraries, familiarity with library systems, digital library services, and administrative tasks. As a library assistant, you will work at the information desk handling all related tasks and ensuring that visitors are always the focus. The position includes performing administrative work and other library-related tasks as well as shelving books. You are committed to providing our visitors with a warm welcome and excellent service. You have a strong user focus and work solution-oriented with the customer in mind. You enjoy executing tasks and involving others to move forward, seeing opportunities in challenges. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone who has completed secondary education deemed relevant by the employer. You have prior experience working in a library and a good understanding of digital library services and tools, such as Book-IT. You have experience in media management, such as entering books and other materials into the library's catalog system. You are also accustomed to working with digital inclusion, actively assisting visitors in using the library's digital services, such as how to borrow an e-book, register for digital services, or stream movies. Additionally, you have experience with administrative tasks and a good command of the Swedish language, both spoken and written. To enhance our service and better meet our visitors' needs, we seek someone with experience in service and customer interaction. If you also have proficiency in Somali and experience communicating with and informing groups, that would be an asset for the position. In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you demonstrate a positive attitude, a strong ability to collaborate, and a commitment to high-quality work. As a person, you find it easy to work with others. Striving to provide the best possible service is a given for you. You listen, show empathy, and respect. You are unpretentious and recognize and reward the contributions of others. Furthermore, you have the ability to prioritize effectively, are efficient, and utilize resources to achieve the best results. You also adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach. You see opportunities in change. OTHER To ensure a quality recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and facilitate good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager; do not submit your application digitally. Within Gävle Municipality, there is a decision regarding the right to full-time employment, meaning that permanent employees can request that their position be a full-time role. This request must be accommodated within six months, starting from the first day of employment. To have your right to full-time employment met, you may need to perform other tasks than those typically included in your role. Gävle Municipality is part of the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it may be an advantage. In preparation for the recruitment process, Gävle Municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask that media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar entities refrain from contacting us.