Collections Acquisitions Officer

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Why work with us?**

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region -Connected. Liveable. Thriving, our region is a model of sustainability, where caring for our environment, creating vibrant communities and growing our local economy is a way of life.

About the Role

As a Collections Acquisitions Officer, you’ll contribute to high-quality customer service by managing the acquisition and renewal of library collections. This includes overseeing ordering, invoice processing, and quality control, while liaising with suppliers, authors, and small publishers. You’ll also be responsible for delivering key services such as the Languages Other Than English (LOTE) program and the Library’s Book Club

**Key Responsibilities

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• Manage the acquisition of library collections, including ordering, invoice processing and quality management, liaising with suppliers and the Library Collection Services team to ensure the annual renewal of collections is timely, relevant and meets the Library’s Supplier Specifications.
• Support and manage requests for inclusion in the Library’s collection by authors and small publishers.
• Manage the Library’s Book Club service including, Book Club processes and Book Club collection maintenance and renewal, liaising with suppliers, Book Club customers and Branch Libraries as required.
• Work collaboratively with Branch Library and Specialist teams to promote and develop community relevant collections and services, effective collection management processes and seamless collection access.

**About you

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• You will hold a Certificate IV in Library and Information Services or bring equivalent relevant experience.
• You will demonstrate experience in a library or customer service environment, with strong business acumen and the ability to apply relevant legislation, policies, and procedures.
• You will have excellent time management and organisational skills, enabling you to work both independently and collaboratively.

**Pre-Employment Medical Required?

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Essential to your success is physical agility and the level of fitness, strength and dexterity to carry out labouring and frequent heavy lifting & bending. As such, appointment to this position is subject to completion of a pre-employment medical assessment.

Criminal History Check Required?

Appointment to this position ia subject to the satisfactory completion of a criminal check. 

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

• Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities. 
• Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working including a 9-day fortnight and a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.
• Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices.

**How to apply

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Your written application should include:

• A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and

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• A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

**Further Information

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Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2025-2030.

For specific enquiries contact Caroline Hopper during business hours on 5475 7150.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.