Director – Public Libraries

Description

This competition is open to all candidates who meet the above noted Admissibility. A hiring preference will apply for qualified candidates of Canadian Indigenous ancestry, with a priority for qualified Yukon First Nation candidates. This initiative is in support of the Yukon government’s goal for a representative public service.

For more information on the hiring preference, visit www.yukon.ca/hiring-preference.

This is a full-time 1.5-year term, anticipatory permanent position, working 75 hours bi-weekly. If you are an internal candidate, we will consider doing a temporary assignment.

Who we are:

As the Yukon government’s most diverse department, Community Services has a place for you. Under the Community Services umbrella, there are 18 unique branches <https://yukon.ca/en/department-community-services> where you can apply your skillset. All branches strive to empower communities to be vibrant, healthy, and sustainable. Community Services develops our team and invests in people so together we can equip Yukon communities with the tools and knowledge to foster a higher quality of life for all Yukoners.

Your impact:

The role of a Community Services employee reaches across the territory. Your strong will to better your community will empower Yukoners to lead healthy, productive, and resilient lives through accessible and integrated programs.

About the branch:

Working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, the Director of Yukon Public Libraries fosters a collaborative, team approach, both within the division and with external contacts and clients. The Director is an important member of the division’s management team and provides strategic leadership to encourage, strengthen, enable, and support public libraries across the territory.

About the job:

The ideal candidate will have strong strategic thinking skills, a client service orientation and a flexible, proactive approach to working with staff, colleagues, and clients. They will resolve issues and problems using strong negotiation skills, as well as make decisions with integrity and balanced judgement.

For more information about this position, please contact: Jaime Mellott, ADM, Regulatory and Consumer Affairs, at jaime.mellott@yukon.ca.

For more information about applying to a Community Services competition, contact Paulina Bataligin at paulina.bataligin@yukon.ca.

Essential Qualifications

Please submit your resume clearly demonstrating how you meet the following qualifications. Please note that selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide in your resume.

• Completion of a degree in a relevant field (such as Library and Information Science, Public Administration, Community Development, or Education).
• Experience in financial and human resource management.
• Experience leading and developing staff, including performance and talent management.
• Experience designing, implementing, and assessing programming, especially related to diversity and inclusion.
• A degree in Library and Information Science will be considered an asset.
• Experience working in a library or archive, particularly at the management level, will be considered an asset.
• Experience working with societies and boards will be considered an asset.

Candidates who have education, training, and/or experience equivalent to the above qualifications listed may be equally considered.

What you need to consider:

• Prior to submitting your resume, an E-recruitment profile <https://yukon.ca/en/employment/apply-job/create-yo…> must be created as applications are only accepted through the system.
• Resumes are assessed based on candidates’ ability to communicate how they have demonstrated the essential qualifications from their professional, volunteer, or educational experience.
• Candidates must clearly state the length of time they performed the essential qualifications in their role(s) (ex. month/year to month/year).
• Take advantage of learning more about how to prepare your resume <https://yukon.ca/en/employment/apply-job/prepare-a…> for a government recruitment. Please note that cover letters are not required unless clearly indicated on the job ad.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability

Candidates will be expected to demonstrate their competence according to the standard set by the Yukon Government Core Competency Framework <https://yukon.ca/sites/yukon.ca/files/psc/psc-core…>. This competition will specifically focus on, but not limit itself to, the following competencies:

• Thinking Strategically: Takes a comprehensive, long-term view, critically assessing options and implications, while linking decisions to strategic goals.
• Client Focus: Creates a client-focused culture for the entire organization and engages others in providing outstanding service to internal and external clients.
• Promoting Common Values and Ethics: Promotes the establishment, development and application of positive organizational values, ethics and standards of conduct.
• Influencing Others: Generates commitment while inspiring others. Builds coalitions, internally and externally, to reach the organization’s goals by using a variety of methods and adapting influence approaches, and by effectively using knowledge of how the organization really works.
• Developing People: Fosters the learning and development of others through supportive relationships. Transfers expertise and builds the long-term leadership capability of others by teaching, coaching and/or mentoring them.

Additional Information

• Find out what we offer our employees
• See why the Yukon government has been identified as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers since 2014

Learn more about us!

We are the Yukon public service. Every day, we come together to serve the people who live here, and to make a difference in so many ways—from simple to extraordinary and everything in between. Here, you will find the diverse opportunities you desire to develop your career while enjoying a warm sense of community and vibrant artistic, cultural and recreational amenities, all set in a spectacular natural environment.

To learn more about what the Yukon has to offer, check out these links:

https://www.employment.gov.yk.ca/yukon_life.html and https://www.travelyukon.com/en

How to Apply

To apply for the position of Director – Public Libraries, and for full details on the requirements of the role, please visit: https://yukon.ca/en/employment.

“Committed to Employment Equity”Compensation
$106,668 – $146,491 per annum

Closes: 26 September, 2023

Government of Yukon
Whitehorse , YT