Faculty Librarian: Law

**Advert reference**: uj_001732
- **Advert status**: Online**Position Summary**

**Industry**:Education & Training

**Job category**:Education and Training

**Campus**:Auckland Park Kingsway Campus

**Contract**:Permanent

**Remuneration**:Market Related

**EE position**:EE

**Level**:Skilled

**Introduction**

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a vibrant and cosmopolitan university, anchored in Africa and driven by a powerful strategy focused on attaining global excellence and stature (GES). With an emphasis on independent thinking, sustainable development, and strategic partnerships, UJ is an international university of choice. The University is guided by the Vice-Chancellor’s vision of “Positioning UJ in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for societal impact in the context of the changing social, political, and economic fortunes of Africa”.

**Job description**
- Coordinate the team of librarians and student assistants to provide an information service to support the teaching, learning and research goals of the University. This includes collaborative relationship building, collection development, training, support for research and publication outputs, and marketing and promotion of all library services and activities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Relationship building, collaboration and communication
- Information retrieval and research support
- Information skilling and learning support
- Collection development and maintenance
- Marketing, networking and collaboration
- Professional development
- Quality control and reporting
- Leadership and management

**Minimum requirements**
- Degree in Library and Information Science or equivalent qualification
- Minimum of three years’ experience of information service provision in a higher education institution library (within a faculty) or special/research library
- Desirable:

- Five years’ experience within all functions of the library; and
- One year supervisory or managerial experience

**Competencies and Behavioural Attributes**:

- Good communication skills
- Ability to work well in a team as well as independent
- Strong computer Literacy
- Accuracy and attention to detail

**Recommendations**:

- Highly competent in using technology affecting library and information science
- Good leadership, supervisory/mentoring skills, and decision-making ability

**Enquiries**:
**Enquiries regarding the job content**: Ms Santha Geduld on Tel: (011) 559 4324

**Enquiries regarding remuneration & benefits**:Mrs Presheka Naidoo (HCM Business Partner) on Tel: (011) 559 3912

For more information, please review the following link**:Justice/Criminal/NRSO**.