[HANOI, VIETNAM] IB LIBRARIAN

The School Librarian is an information manager with integrated understandings of teaching and information resources needed by both teachers and students. As a result, knowledge of the curriculum, teaching strategies, inquiry and learning styles can be combined with knowledge of resource management, information services, personnel management and information access systems including information technology systems. This enables the IB School Librarian to undertake an active role in curriculum design, support and implementation. Working alongside the Education, Research, and Pedagogy Council (ERPC), teachers and students in the development, planning, exploration and assessment of units, facilitating an inquiry approach to learning is a key element in this role.

WHAT WE OFFER:
• Visa/work permit sponsored, including spouse and up to 2 dependents
• Paid personal leave days and public holidays
• Provided flight ticket and 3 days quarantine costs covered (if any for overseas hires)
• KPI (Key Performance Indicator) bonuses
• The 11th salary as a bonus for the completion of 10 working months
• Professional development opportunities
• Ongoing support for new teachers, such as airport pickup, bank assistance, phone set-up, etc.
• Tuition discount for up to 2 children

Requirements for IB Librarian position:

1. Bachelor’s degree in library studies/English or equivalent, preferred Master’s degree in library studies/English

2. At least two years of full-time experience as a librarian

3. Trained from a recognised university

4. Have a high level of written and spoken English

5. Attend or be scheduled to attend IB Library training

6. Tech savvy to use internet for research and google apps

The role of the IB School Librarian is to provide access to a variety of resources, services and facilities to support:

Teaching & Learning

• Cooperatively plan and teach and assess units of work with teachers to develop information literacy, facilitate inquiry and build the capacity of the teaching team in information literacy

• Assist students to seek, critically evaluate, synthesize and present information

• Incorporate essential knowledge and skills into teaching and learning programs

• Help students use a range of resources and technologies in various formats

• Provide opportunities for students to work in groups, individually or within a whole class

• Be inclusive of the diverse needs of learners

• Mentor, coach and support teachers and other staff on the use of resources, strategies of inquiry and resourced-based learning to help them teach more effectively with just in time access to resources and confidence to create better learning experiences

• Advocate the need for students to be information literate

• Participate in the on-going development of the school’s Approaches to Learning, curriculum and work collaboratively with the IB coordinators

• Create a learning community in which all members have a desire to inquire,

evaluate and challenge thinking

• Make learning an engaging and colorful hybrid experience

• Understand and model that IB School Librarians must teach everywhere, in and outside of the library

• Create, develop and collect resources that will support the curriculum

• Develop parent education sessions on accessing the online resources outside of school hours

• Attend excursions, camps and other learning activities as part of the collaborative teaching team

• Demonstrate flexibility and exemplary communication and interpersonal skills

Information Specialist

• Share a growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs, wikis, Facebook, images, social media and scholarly content

• Open the students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information

• Pull together and organize resources, creating pathfinders to meet the specific information needs of the learning community

• Ensure the learners and teachers can physically & intellectually access developmentally and curricular specific databases, portals, websites, blogs, videos, and other media

• Help learners put together their own personal information portals and Knowledge Building Centres to support their research and learning

• Work with learners to exploit push information technologies like RSS feeds and tags, saved databases and search engine searches relevant to their information needs

• Build dynamic interactive features to the library website as well as utilize ways to interact with and teach students

• Consider new interactive and engaging communication tools for student projects

• Encourage students to develop academic and appropriate digital footprints

• Model respect for intellectual property in a world of shift and change, encouraging and guiding documentation for media in all formats across the school

• Understand, model and teach about copyright, copyleft, open domain, fair use, transformative use and creative commons in conjunction with the school academic honesty policy

• Look to make “learning sense” of the authentic new information and communication tools used in business and academics, figuring how to use them thoughtfully and helping classroom teachers use them with their classes

Management

• Collaborating with the Library team to establish efficient procedures and systems for delivery of services

• Develop the resource collection to support the MYP curriculum and the needs of the community

• Enhance international mindedness and cultural awareness of the school through co- ordination of resources, reading programs and displays

• Coordinate the roles and daily tasks of library staff and volunteers

• Coordinate displays, special events and activities to support student learning specific to the MYP including the Personal Project

• Manage resources within delegated authority and budgets

• Ensure the Library staff have access to and have the opportunity for professional development

• Be proactive in library staff performance management, completing

• Participate in developing and documenting library policies, set goals and objectives and evaluate according to changing school needs
Assist Program coordinator

• Sustain a high level of professional knowledge and understanding of the IB Programme

• Work in partnership with the coordinator, meeting regularly with curriculum leaders

• Take an active role working with the curriculum leaders

• Demonstrate practices that reflect current educational directions

• Contribute to the professional development of staff

• Ensure the implementation and support of the school’s policies of language, academic honesty, command terms, common language throughout the library program

• Participate as a partner in planning, implementing and evaluating school policies relating to curriculum with the ERPC

• Actively promote student and staff information literacy across the curriculum

• Function as a member of the school curriculum team with the ERPC

• Administrate, manage, model and have expertise in Turnitin, including staff training and creative uses of using it as a learning and teaching tool

• Assist in teaching and embedding Approaches to Learning throughout the curriculum through education of students and staff

Literature Promotion

• Ensure the library has materials which reflect a range of cultures, perspectives and languages including mother tongue

• Expose students to a range of genres, authors, and reading experiences through both print and digital formats

• Develop strategies to foster a love of reading and literature for leisure

• Promotes best quality literature and authors, reflecting a variety of cultures and themes

• Guide students in their reading choices

• Use selection tools/reviewing journals to keep informed about current literature for young adults

• Collaborate with teachers to develop literature based reading programs and literature which supports the programme of inquiry

• Consider new ways to promote reading

• Market, and the students share, books using social networking tools

• Devise strategies to include the students in collection development

Services

• Selects resources to support the information needs of the school community

• Employs strategies to maximize access to print and electronic resources

• Facilitate access to community resources and information services

• Provide a friendly learning environment in which students feel confident that their information needs will be addressed

• Ensure that the library resource center is multifunctional and a focal point for student learning

• Develop and teach Student Library Assistant training programmes for students so they can be an active part of the library team and contribute to the library services

Physical Space

• Fill the physical and virtual space with student work, student contributions

• Welcome, and create space for, media production—podcasting, video production, storytelling–producing and presenting

• Make the space inviting, interesting and one that fosters personal inquiry and learning