Media Specialist (One-Year Assignment, Transfer Eligible)

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools; Carrboro (NC); On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is seeking a Media Coordinator for a one-year assignment at Carrboro High School. The role involves guiding library media programs, integrating curriculum with technology, and supporting teachers and students in information literacy and digital citizenship.

The position emphasizes leadership in planning, collaboration, and ongoing professional development to promote reading, inquiry, and the use of 21st-century skills across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Assesses learning and information needs of students and staff
• Plans and works collaboratively with teachers
• Instructs students and staff in the effective use of ideas and information
• Advocates and promotes reading and lifelong learning
• Leads in the school's use of instructional technology to enhance learning
• Upgrades professional knowledge and skills on a continual basis
• Collaborates with the Instructional Technology Facilitator to lead digital citizenship and information literacy lessons

Job description

Media Specialist (One-Year Assignment, Transfer Eligible) JobID: 6598

• Position Type:
  Instructional Specialist/ Media Coordinator
• Date Posted:
  8/20/2026
• Location:
  Carrboro High School
• Date Available:
  09/10/2026

Job Title:

Media Coordinator (One-Year Assignment, Transfer Eligible)

Salary Schedule: State Salary Schedule; CHCCS Salary Page

Reports To:School Principal with support and guidance from the Director of Digital Learning and Library Services Salary Grade:Instructional Support

Work Location: FLSA Status:Exempt

Work Schedule:10 Month

Position Summary

The demands of providing a 21st century education dictate new roles for School Library Media Specialists. School Library Media Specialists are called on to have a larger role in their schools and school communities. School leadership is distributed among the staff and administration in order to bring consensus, common understandings, and shared ownership of the vision and purpose of the school. School Library Media Specialists are valued for their leadership abilities throughout the school as well as in the media center. School Library Media Specialists help make the content engaging and meaningful to students' lives as they support teachers and facilitate the integration of curriculum and related projects across disciplines. In the school and the media center, School Library Media Specialists facilitate instruction, encouraging all students to use 21st century skills to discover how to learn, innovate, collaborate, and communicate their ideas. They serve as facilitators of information skills development through the provision of professional development, coaching, mentoring, and co-teaching activities. Their work includes supporting the development of authentic and structured assessment strategies to assure that students demonstrate understanding of the content taught and ability to apply the skills they have learned. School Library Media Specialists demonstrate the value of lifelong learning and instill a love of reading and learning in the students with whom they come into contact.

Planning and implementing for teaching and learning:

• Assesses learning and information needs of students and staff
• Plans and works collaboratively with teachers
• Instructs students and staff in the effective use of ideas and information
• Advocates and promotes reading and lifelong learning
• Leads in the school's use of instructional technology to enhance learning
• Upgrades professional knowledge and skills on a continual basis
• Collaborates with the Instructional Technology Facilitator to provide leadership in the school's use of instructional technology resources and plan digital citizenship and information literacy lessons to enhance learning

Planning and implementing for information access, evaluation and use:

• Works with the principal and school leadership team to provide flexible access to school library media center resources
• Creates and maintains an environment conducive to learning
• Encourages the widest possible use of print and electronic resources and services--within the school library media center, throughout the school, and through remote access
• Leads teachers, technology staff, and students in a collaborative process to select and evaluate resources that address curricular needs and learning goals of students and teachers in the information age
• Keeps accurate inventories of print, non print, and technology materials and equipment
• Works cooperatively with other libraries and agencies to share resources that enhance teaching and learning
• Implements an ongoing collection development and evaluation process, in collaboration with the Media and Technology Advisory Committee or School Leadership Team, that focuses on a variety of formats and resources to meet diverse learning needs.
• Adheres to copyright as well as other laws and guidelines pertaining to the distribution and use of resources
• Advocates the principles of intellectual freedom and ethical behavior

Planning and implementing for program administration:

• Works with school staff to design and implement short- and long-range plans to ensure balance among teaching, instructional technology, collaboration, collection development, and program management
• Evaluates the school library media program on a continual basis according to accepted standards of quality