Roosevelt Library Branch Manager

Socket.dev; Roosevelt (UT); On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Duchesne County Library seeks a Branch Manager to mentor and lead staff, fostering a safe, respectful, and growth‑minded culture. You will guide librarians and volunteers, supervise daily operations, coordinate programs, and ensure excellent customer service and effective facility management.

Under the Library Director, you’ll oversee collection management, budgeting, safety, and community partnerships, and you’ll model professional ethics and policy adherence while promoting intellectual

Qualifications

• Experience supervising library staff or volunteers.
• Strong communication and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to lead diverse teams in a public service environment.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and lead branch staff to deliver high‑quality library services.
• Oversee daily operations, events, outreach, and facility management.
• Ensure excellent customer service and adherence to library policies and ethics.
• Coordinate with Library Director and partner libraries to align goals.

Skills

Staff supervision

Communication

Mentoring

Job description

POSITION PROFILE

Under the supervision of the County Library Director, the branch management are the mentors, leaders, and exemplary librarians of their branch. As library staff is the most important resource a library can offer, their primary role is to guide and supervise the library staff by cultivating a safe, respectful, positive, and growth-minded work environment and culture. They must have the emotional stamina to navigate a variety of perspectives and expectations from a diverse staff. The staff mostly consists of Associate Librarians. The branch management may also oversee volunteers, long and short-term. Secondary to the critical supervisory/mentor responsibilities, they also direct a wide variety of library and administrative duties including clerical work, event programming, outreach, technology use, excellent customer service, and management of library facilities and resources. Though they train and delegate many of the day-to-day operations of the library to the staff, they regularly follow up on the quality of services, inside and outside of the library facilities. The manager communicates and collaborates frequently with the County Library Director who mentors them. Managers assume the director's responsibilities in their absence. Through these efforts together, they lead their staff in making Duchesne County Library an essential, efficient community resource and heart of the community that is focused on the progress of its residents.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Communicate frequently, respectfully, and honestly with staff and volunteers, informally and formally. Actively listen to, inspire, correct, and recognize/praise staff in a variety of ways to help them consistently progress and succeed. Maintain confidentiality of appropriate conversations with staff and supervision. Frequently follow up oneon-one with staff on improvement goals.
• Effectively and promptly manage staff conflict through exemplary communication skills, navigating high emotions by keeping conversations safe, seeking for underlying concerns and meaning, and withholding assumptions about motives in challenging situations. Repeat as frequently as circumstances require. Utilize the same skills with inquiries and conflicts with volunteers, patrons, vendors, and other departments and organizations.
• Exemplify and train staff in county policies, board-approved library policies and procedures, and professional library ethics. Emphasize intellectual freedom of patrons, accessibility to information and services, and privacy of patron-identifying information and records. Participate in developing and interpreting library policies with the Library Director. Leads staff meetings and facilitates respectful, productive discussion. Thoughtfully assess what matters and training should be discussed one-on-one rather than in a group setting with the entire staff, preserving trusting relationships.
• Implement the library's mission, core values, strategic plan goals, and the directions/assignments given by the Library Director. Discuss feedback and recommendations with staff and Library Director about each. Maintain and report library statistical information to the Library Director.
• Schedule and oversee library staff workflow and duties, with particular attention to the dependability and quality of library facilities, services, and programs. Train and follow up on those duties and needs. Assist staff with the planning, execution, promotion, and budgeting of those services and programs, including co-sponsored events with community partners.
• Collaborate with Duchesne, Roosevelt, and Uintah County libraries in facilitating Basin-wide library services.
• Participate in professional development including workshops, conferences, webinars, etc. to increase professional knowledge, supervisory and communication skills, awareness of local and national trends, and new ideas for library services. Also, complete required county and risk management training.
• Oversee branch collection and supply ordering and patron requests in accordance with library policy and budget limitations. Coordinate maintenance of the library collection including general condition, inventory, organization and accessibility.
• Act as the on-site safety officer and ensure safe use and condition of equipment and facilities. Oversee emergency responses and initiate contacts as appropriate, including intervening in harassing behavior from patrons or staff. Report concerns promptly to the library director for remediation. May execute consequences for misbehavior according to library policy. Submit work orders for facility repairs to the maintenance department and communicate the need to the Library Director.
• Working with the staff, oversee library facility accessibility, cleanliness, and appearance including decor, bulletin boards, and displays to enhance the library experience for patrons. Oversee/delegate the creation of professional promotional materials for programming and services.
• Ensure library transactions and cash registers are regularly and ethically accounted for.
• Oversee approval of community room reservations and proper use of other library rooms/facilities.
• Assist with and exemplify associate librarian duties including prompt customer service, reader's advisory, circulation, shelving, etc. as needed.
• Understand operation and maintenance of office machines including copiers, fax machines, book and disc repair machines, printers, scanners, etc.
• Effectively utilize office software including electronic mail, documents, spreadsheets, and desktop publishing.
• Perform other tasks as discussed and assigned by the Library Director.
• Dependably work similar schedules as their staff including some Saturdays and at least one evening weekly. Address branch facility needs/emergencies outside of normal operating hours. Occasionally work outside of normal open hours and offsite to provide library services and promotion.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Must be able to successfully pass a criminal background investigation and drug test.
• Must be able to speak, write, and communicate effectively in English; responding to inquiries, and read and interpret documents such as policies, procedures, and regulations. Must be
• 18 years or older.