25-26 School Year - Media Specialist Browns Ferry and Plantersville Elementary (*Qualifies for Rural Incentive)
25-26 School Year - Media Specialist Browns Ferry and Plantersville Elementary (*Qualifies for Rural Incentive)
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Job Description
Job Title: Media Specialist (Split between BFESCPA and PEDIS)
Supervisor:Reports to the Building Principal or other appropriate School Administrator
Terms of Employment: 200 Days
Qualifications
- South Carolina Media Specialist Certification.
- Prior job experience preferred.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Performance Responsibilities
- Develop a school library media program that addresses 21st century skills including life and career development learning and innovation and information media and technology literacy.
- Create and maintain a school library center that provides a teaching and learning environment that is inviting safe readily accessible and conducive to student learning.
- Actively promote reading information literacy skills and information resource use through activities including book clubs reading programs reading initiatives and other special events.
- Instruct students and staff in information and technology literacy skills including reading for understanding the research process engaging inquiry collaboration critical thinking developing multiple literacies and understanding copyright fair use and licensing of intellectual property.
- Cooperate and network with other libraries librarians and agencies to provide expanded access to resources for students and teachers.
- Develop policies and procedures that ensure maximum accessibility efficient operation effective services and facility use. This includes policies and procedures for physical access electronic access selection acquisition circulation resource sharing and materials challenges.
- Establish annual and long-term measurable goals for the school library media program that are aligned with the district and school mission and objectives.
- Lead colleagues through staff development programs that incorporate best practices in the use of information resources multi-media technology applications and online learning.
- Work as an instructional partner by collaborating with teaching staff in preparing and delivering lessons that incorporate effective use of information resources and build information literacy and reading skills.
- Take an active role in school improvement and accreditation activities.
- Develop and maintain a collection of resources appropriate to the curriculum students andteaching and learning styles inherent within the school community.
- Implement and maintain automated catalog circulation system and textbook check-out servicesincluding student obligations and responsibilities for materials.
- Prepare a program budget that supports the school library media program goals.
- Collect and analyze data to periodically evaluate the school library media program for continuousimprovement against measurable goals and communicate program results with administratorsstaff and the community.
- Supervise and evaluate media support staff.
- Supervisor may assign other related duties as needed.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to walk sit stand and reach with hands and arms stoop or kneel and crouch. Duties may involve risk resulting from attending to students behavioral needs.
Additional physical requirements include the following:
- Physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 40 pounds.
- Sufficiently mobile to ensure the safety of the classroom.
- Specific vision requirements include close vision distance vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to focus.
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
- Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry.
- Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
- Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone.
- Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person on the telephone.
Salary Scale - salary based on years of experience and degree level: job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor. GCSDreserves the right to update revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice.
The deadline is for the convenience of the District. The District reserves the right at any time to extend the deadline date without notice and without final consideration of any pending applications.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
