University of Canterbury Looking for Kaiawhina | Library Assistant (Part-time, continuing, Academic year only) at Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Full Time

University of Canterbury Library | Ngā Puna Mātauraka o Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• We have a variety of part-time, academic year only, continuing Kaiāwhina | Library Assistant roles. The hours packages available are based around our evening and weekend service:
• Mon 4.30-11.15pm, Tues 5.00-11.15pm, Wed 4.30-11.15pm, Sun 1.15-9.15pm (25.50hours)
• Mon 30-11.15pm, Tue 4.30-11.15pm, Wed 5.00-11.15pm, Thu 4.30-11.15pm (24.50 hours)
• Mon 5.00-11.15pm, Tue 4.30-11.15pm, Wed 8.00-11.15pm, Sat 10.15am-1.15pm (18.25 hours)
• Mon 8.00-11.15pm, Tue 5.00-11.15pm, Wed 4.30-11.15pm, Sun 10.15am-1.15pm (18.25 hours)
• Thu 4.30-11.15pm, Fri 4.15-9.15pm, Sat 1.15-9.15pm (18.00 hours)
• Thu 5.00-11.15pm, Fri 12.00-3.15pm, Sat 1.15-9.15p (16.25 hours)
• Thu 4.30-11.15pm, Fri 4.15-9.15pm, Sat 1.15-9.15pm (18.00 hours)

He hiahia, he pūkenga nōu ki te mahi a te Kaiāwhina? Nāia te pōwhiri nā Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha kia tono mai i te tūranga nei.

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

Are you enthusiastic, energetic, and have experience providing excellent customer service? Are you reliable and conscientious? Perhaps you are a bit of a night-owl, are completing study, or have other commitments during the day. Do you love helping people, feel motivated to contribute to what libraries can provide to their communities and are interested in a career in libraries?

This role could provide you with great experience working directly with students and staff providing lending and information services at our information desk and via online media, assisting users with equipment, maintaining our collections and physical environment, and helping make our learning spaces welcoming places, all within a large tertiary library system.

Mōu | Who You AreYou will have relevant work experience in a library, office, or a similar front-facing customer service environment. You will have experience with organising and finding information in libraries, awareness of the technologies used and of administrative procedures and systems such as managing files and records.

Knowledge of Te Reo Māori and Te Ao Māori or experience working with Māori or Pacific communities would be an advantage as would a current First-Aid Certificate.

Due to the nature of the role, it’s important that you are a people person who enjoys working in a team.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With

You will work alongside a diverse and passionate library team who provide a range of services, resources and expertise that support undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching, and that enhance world leading research and innovation. We do this through the provision of information resources; reference and information services; digital literacy programmes; e-learning support and academic liaison; research support including repositories; student and academic support from our Subject Specialist Librarians, Kaitakawaenga Māori and Pacific Liaison Librarians and our heritage collections and specialist staff.

For more information about our team, please visit us @ UC Library

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UCOur values are manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and these uara (values) guide our decisions and behaviour. Our values provide a roadmap for how we do things, affirming our commitment to the oranga (health, safety, and wellbeing) of our students through mana-enhancing pastoral care and support. Ngā Uara (our values) challenge and inspire us to be the best we can be. They make UC a great place to work and study. For more on our Ngā Uara | Our Values visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about/values/

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender, or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

We offer a range of fantastic benefits including flexible work practices, study opportunities and generous superannuation and leave provisions. For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/joinus/benefits/

For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit www.canterbury.ac.nz

The closing date for this position is: 2nd January 2024 (midnight, NZ time)Applications will be reviewed after the closing date.

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply

Applications for this position must be submitted on our careers website and should include a cover letter which clearly indicates which of the positions (e.g. Position 1-3 etc) is your preference or if you are open to any of them and a copy of your resume.

We do not accept applications by email; however, we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to [email protected]

Please note, the University of Canterbury will be closed from the 22/12/23 – 2/01/24. During this period, we will be unable to respond to queries regarding this role. We will follow up with you at our earliest convenience once we return.

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency to be considered for this role. If you hold a valid work visa and are physically present in New Zealand, then you may also be considered.

Please note, selection may involve a combination of interviews and group exercises.