Purpose:

Information provision to a portfolio competency sector as defined in the Organization. Also providing information consultancy in the selection and building of appropriate material for the identified sector and helping clientele to retrieve and search for relevant information.

Qualifications/ Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree Library & Information Science or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years working experience in an automated Information Centre/library environment preferably in the Parliamentary / Academic / Research Sector
• Experience with electronic information sources and technologies and their use in supporting research
• Evidence of exposure to new developments in research and applications in the information organisation and retrieval field would be an advantage

Required Competencies:

• Analytical Thinking: the ability to gather and analyze data and different sources of information; identify key issues, trends and relationships. Provide alternative solutions to challenges.
• Organizational ability: allocate human, financial and other resources such as time and equipment according to goals and objectives, evaluating progress against plan and adapting resources to changing situations
• Flexibility: Demonstrate willingness to embrace change; ability to adopt new ideas, approaches and insights.
• Goal Orientation: Undertake goals with enthusiasm and focuses on the achievement of personal and organizational goals and participate in the strategic leadership of the ORGANIZATION
• Proactive: the inclination and nature to take responsibility and action, without having to be told, to respond to the situation, having considered the long term implications
• Teamwork & co-operation: the ability to identify with team purpose, goals and objectives. Encourages harmony and co-orperation within a team
• Customer Service Excellence (internal & external): demonstrating awareness and commitment to identifying customer expectations and strives towards consistently exceed them.
• Coping with pressure: Maintains composure and focuses on achieving objectives in a high-pressure environment.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge and Information Management
• Building and maintaining co-operative networks
• Familiarity with information materials in different media and formats
• In-depth knowledge of Library systems for application of information science techniques
• Sound content knowledge of subject fields
• Comprehensive knowledge of electronic information sources and commercial databases and their use in supporting research
• Knowledge of current trends and developments in web publishing technologies for effective provision of online library services
• Good grasp and range of subjects and issues
• End-user computer skills
• Report Writing
• Familiarity with the Weeding process, principles and practice
• Searching and retrieval skills
• Cataloguing, indexing and Classification
• Research skills
• Communication skills


KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

KPA 1: Information Consultancy
• Update the Information Centre Portal
• Use Online databases, internet sites and AMLIB to retrieve relevant information for the stakeholders
• Compile bibliographies on specific topics relating to information needs of Members, Researchers, Committees and ORGANIZATION Administrative Staff on request and in anticipation of needs
• Apply Knowledge Management Practices within the Information Centre
• Timely provide accurate information in respond to information requests
• Create Subject Index File
• Current Awareness Service
• Distribute Table of contents pages of new journals
• Provide information support to Members, Researchers, Committees and ORGANIZATION Administrative Staff
KPA 2: Collection Management

• Disseminate specialised information brochures and guides to stakeholders in order to make their selection
• Identify gaps in the collection
• Identify New publications relevant to the assigned portfolio competency sector
• Recommend for the procurement of the identified relevant information materials
• Perform Weeding
• Catalogue and classify Information materials


KPA 3: User Education and Training
• Ensure the Information Centre materials are utilised and prepare subject specific instruction manuals
• Train Stakeholders on Databases and Information resources


KPA 4: Internal and External stakeholder relations
• Develop Information needs profiles
• Perform Surveys to determine user satisfaction of allocated stakeholders
• Analyse information needs of Stakeholders
• Identify platforms of professional networking and such pursued to benefit the stakeholders served

CLOSING DATE: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2016

If you do not receive any response from us within 6 weeks of closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.