Job Description

Location

1044 Middlefield Road Redwood City, 94063

Description

The City of Redwood City Invites Applications for:

Senior Library Assistant #25A-7

WHY JOIN THE REDWOOD CITY TEAM?

We offer a wide range of meaningful career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible work schedules, paid time off, and robust benefits. The Redwood City team is guided by the core values of excellence, integrity, service and creativity.  Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk-taking, empowerment, and effective communication. The community is known for its inclusivity, strong engaged neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents and businesses. This mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home. If you’re looking to grow your career as a part of a hard-working and fun Library Department team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we hope you’ll apply.  

ABOUT THE POSITION

The City of Redwood City invites you to apply for the full-time (38 hours per week) position of Senior Library Assistant.  The Senior Library Assistant performs a wide array of high-level library work and customer service. The current vacancy is based at our Downtown Library, performing a wide variety of technical library work, providing services for children, adults and families, and administering the day-to-day activities of the library.  The candidate may also be assigned to work at other Redwood City Public Library locations.  This position requires work during the day, evenings and a weekend rotation (both Saturday and Sunday).  We may use the eligibility list created from this recruitment process to fill any positions that occur in any Redwood City Public Library location, during the life of the eligibility list. To review the job description, click here.

Job PDF: 

Ideal Candidate

Will embrace the City’s emphasis on excellent customer service; will be detail oriented and able to manage multiple tasks; will use initiative and independent judgment; will be a team player who likes working with a variety of City staff and the public including people of diverse socio-economic backgrounds; and have a good sense of humor.

Benefits

Click on job announcement pdf file for listing of position benefits. 

Special Instructions

Submit your application via:  www.CalOpps.org  by Friday, May 16, 2025 by 5:00PM. 

Virtual oral board interviews are tentatively scheduled forTuesday, June 10, 2025

A City application, a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions are required. Applications must be filled out completely. Failure to complete the application, attach a cover letter and responses to the supplemental questions will disqualify the applicant from the recruitment process. Failure to list work experience, and education or training or stating “See Resume” in the work experience section of the application will be considered an incomplete application and subject to disqualification. Resumes may be attached separately, but resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a City application.

 

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Recruitment Contact

Contact phone: 

(650)780-7243

Contact email: 

ecorona@redwoodcity.org

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement, Remote job, Work from home, Flexible hours, Weekend work, Sunday, Saturday, Afternoon shift,

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