Head of the Rastatt City Library

EG 11 TVöD

Оccupation: Librarian

The Baroque town of Rastatt, a large district town with more than 50,000 inhabitants and in the heart of Central Baden, is a city with high quality of life, a diverse cultural offer and numerous other possibilities for relaxation and recreation. In the city centre is one of the most beautiful Baroque castles on the Upper Rhine, the Black Forest is close to grip and the Alsace is just a ferry ride away.

We - about 1,000 employees - want to design! New ideas, flexibility and good communication are therefore just as much in demand for us as the willingness to face new challenges. Are you there?

Our Department of Education, Culture and Sport is looking for a first time (ideally at 01.09.2025)

Guidance of the City Library Rastatt

The City Library Rastatt celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024 and is currently in a transformation process. With the new library concept and the introduction of self-booking with RFID, it makes first steps to a modern “third place” with high quality of stay. It offers 50,000 physical media, on-library, filmfriend and other digital offers. It is particularly appreciated for its reading funding programmes and the diverse children's programme.

Our offer:

• unlimited full-time job
• Payment by pay group 11 TVöD (in the event of the tariff conditions)
• a crisis-proof workplace
• an interesting design task in a relevant cultural and educational institution of the town of Rastatt
• a varied and responsible activity in extensive own initiative and cooperation with a dedicated team
• a good relationship at eye level
• if necessary Provision of childcare facilities
• modern forms of work such as teleworking and mobile work
• Enlargement of your professional and personal skills through wide range of advanced and advanced training, including in digital form
• various offers in the context of occupational health management
• Grant for the Deutschlandticket Job
• operating pension as well as allowance for occupational pensions
• free provision of drinks
• Corporate Benefits: an advantage portal with many attractive offers

Your tasks:

• technical and organizational management of the Stadtbibliothek customer area with a team of ten employees
• Control of all tasks in the various work areas of the facility
• further development of the city library to the “third place”
• Initiation and monitoring of change processes in terms of digitization and changing usage habits
• Budget responsibility and budgeting
• Press and public relations
• strategic orientation of the event programme, planning and implementation of adult events
• Communication and cooperation with other urban cultural and educational institutions
• modern inventory conception and development of new conciliation strategies
• administrative and management tasks and representation of the institution

Your profile:

• University degree as a Diplom-Bibliothekar/in (m/w/d) or Bachelor or Master's degree in library and information management or science or a comparable qualification
• relevant professional experience in public libraries
• Management and management experience in a public library or its own responsibility in a larger library with personnel responsibility is desirable
• high operational and operational readiness combined with a team- and target-oriented and structured working method
• Planning and organization skills and conceptual skills
• open-minded and friendly personality, for which reliability, initiative and service orientation are of course
• flexibility and resilience in terms of working time (saturday services in change) and willingness to service even outside the usual working hours in the evening hours or on weekends
• good knowledge of how IT works, in particular library applications
• ideally completing the training examination (AdA)

You want to strengthen our team and shape the future of the city library? Then let us know and send your meaningful application by 16.04.2025 to the city of Rastatt, Department of Personnel, Organisation and EDV, Customer Area Personnel, Marketplace 1, 76437 Rastatt or as a PDF file to [for e-mail see the original ad].

Any questions? Do not hesitate to contact us! Mr. Vogt, Head of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, Telephone [for phone number see the original ad], and Mr. Wagner from the Human Resources Department, Phone [for phone number see the original ad], will be happy to help you.

We are looking forward to you!

Joblocations:

76437 Rastatt, Herrenstraße 24, BADEN_WUERTTEMBERG, GERMANY