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.
A career at the Colorado Community College System's administrative office comes with great perks. Whether you are responsible for strategic System leadership or provide high quality administrative and technical support, you will reap a rewarding experience being a part of an enterprise which assists thousands of students to elevate their lives each year. Our System Office culture emphasizes and celebrates professionalism in performance of jobs and diversity in our workforce. Our focus on outcomes rather than tasks is supported with flexible work arrangements, and the expectation that our employees perform best when they are engaged and enjoy a degree of autonomy in how they approach the delivery of quality work product. You will admire the friendly culture of our system office and be inspired by our team environment and dedicated employees.
We offer the following benefits:
- Our employees stay because of the work/life balance they are able to obtain at the System Office. This includes generous leave benefits:
- Administrator/Professional-Technical (APT) positions earn 15 hours of annual leave and 10 hours of sick leave each month – based on fulltime status.
- Classified employees earn generous levels of annual and sick leave based on their years of service.
- CCCS employees receive 11 paid holidays per year, many of which are observed between December 25th through January 1st.
- CCCS employees have leave available for a variety of additional personal needs such as academic/volunteer activities, bereavement, public health emergencies, and more.
- Many positions are eligible for alternate work arrangements that may include flexible schedules and/or working remotely within Colorado.
- CCCS offers comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans with considerable employer contributions. We also offer employer-paid life insurance. For a complete overview of our benefits, visit our employee benefits webpage.
- CCCS employees are eligible for Federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness. For more information, go to the Federal Department of Education website.
- As a CCCS employee, you have an opportunity to become a lifelong-learner and enjoy considerable savings for the college education of you and your dependents through our tuition reimbursement program.
- We offer retirement savings through Colorado PERA via our defined benefit or defined contribution plans. CCCS employees are also eligible to participate in a robust set of supplemental retirement options such as a 401K, 457, and/or 403b.
- All state employees are eligible to participate in BenefitHub, which offers discounts for retailers and services and other benefits resources.
- CCCS offers employee assistance services to you and your household members at no cost through the Colorado State Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP). Available services include counseling, professional coaching, webinars, mediation, financial assistance, and more.
- 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.
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.
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Nikki Cimino jobs@cccs.edu