Company Profile

HD Human Resource & Services (HD HR&S), a leading Innovative and client-centric management entity, has been retained to find highly motivated and qualified group of professionals and academics with significant experience in Tertiary Education.

Overview
With a solid and prestigious foundation, our client has been established as a leading indigenous tertiary education institution with global perspective in Ghana, West Africa. With high standard quality tertiary education noted for Ghana, our client intends to offer programmes of supreme standards in a range of subject areas.

Vision
Our client holds the vision of becoming the premier technology-based higher education institution in Ghana and Africa with international reputation for accelerating the achievement of aspiring students.

Mission
To create an academic environment that genuinely uses technology and innovation to provide teaching, learning, and research that is practical to the needs of Ghana, Africa, and beyond.

Job Description

The Librarian would be responsible for acquiring, organizing, managing and distributing library resources and ensuring that library provision meets the needs of all its users.

Job functions

The Librarian’s main duties and responsibilities shall include the following:

• Selecting, developing, cataloguing and classifying library resources
• Answering readers’ enquiries.
• Management of staff, including recruitment, training and/or supervisory duties.
• Liaising with departmental academic staff, external organization and suppliers.
• Ensuring that library services meet the needs of particular groups of users (e.g. staff, students, disabled students) managing budget and resources.
• Supporting independent research and learning.
• Developing IT facilities.
• Assisting readers to use computer equipment, conduct literature searches, etc.
• Promoting the library’s resources to user

Required Skills or Experience

• The ideal candidate for the position of Librarian of the University, will be required to demonstrate high qualities of sound judgment, initiative, resourcefulness, precision and professionalism in his/her area of specialization and must:
• Have a minimum of a postgraduate degree in library or information science or related studies.
• Have served as a Deputy Librarian in a University or comparable grade in a similar institution/organization
• Have served as a senior assistant librarian for at least six (6) years.
• Be a scholar and a member of a Professional Body in a Librarianship/Information Science.
• Be computer literate and be conversant with library software.

Terms of Appointment

• The appointment shall be for a tenure of four (4) years in the first instance and may be renewed, subject to satisfactory performance, for another four (4) years.
• Salary and conditions of service attached to the position is very attractive.