DIGITAL MEDIA SPECIALIST

Digital Media Specialist

We are accepting applications for Digital Media Specialist. Currently, we have one opening for a 3.75-hour, 10-month employee at CJ. Morris Elementary School. The work hours are 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Monday through Friday. The eligibility list will be used to fill current and future permanent openings and will be certified for six months.

Basic function under general supervision of the principal or designee, responsible for processing digital and hard copy materials ordered and cataloged for school libraries and media centers. Maintain library records and inventory of electronic, printed, audiovisual, and multimedia materials and support and assist in computer operations and related electronic systems in school libraries. Responsible for basic maintenance and storage of technological equipment, textbooks, and workbooks. Order, receive, and catalog new materials and assist with proper distribution of obsolete materials and equipment. Oversee school site's internal web page and digital media resources and perform other job-related duties as assigned by principal or designated supervisor.

Essential job functions include coordinating workflow while maintaining the school library/media center and multi-media collection, participating in the receipt of a wide variety of media for the school library, including electronic, printed, digital, and media systems, verifying and maintaining acquisitions, cataloging information, and distribution records, assisting in the physical processing of library materials, implementing a system of distribution of processed items to the library and classrooms, overseeing and assisting school library inventory and textbook in/out processing, training and orienting personnel in technical library processing, assisting with operation of automated circulation and online catalog systems in all school library/media centers, demonstrating and training users in current electronic ordering system and internal school web page, coordinating related data and data storage with Technology and Data Processing departments, maintaining library master inventory, including multimedia physical resources, ordering supplies, and may install software upgrades for library and multimedia curriculum.

Skills, knowledge, and abilities required include operating a variety of personal computers and related library equipment and technology, multimedia equipment, and hardware, understanding and carrying out oral and written directives with minimal supervision, making mathematical calculations with speed and accuracy, using different classification systems, relational database systems and related tools, and appropriate library software, maintaining appropriate records and preparing complete and concise reports, operating basic computers, program software, and electronic devices, and establishing and maintaining cooperative relationships with students, staff, parents, and community members.

Experience and education requirement: any combination of experience and training that would provide the required knowledge and skills may be qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required knowledge and skills would be: experience: one (1) year of experience working with children in a library, licensed school-age program, or other educational setting. In addition, one (1) year of experience in a clerical capacity to include experience working with computer applications and related multimedia technology, is required. Education: completion of an Associate of Arts Degree or its equivalent.

Physical demands: persons performing service in this position classification will be expected to perform medium work, which involves lifting no more than 50 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 pounds. This type of work requires the ability to bend at waist, kneel, or crouch to assist students, stamina to sit, stand, and walk for long periods of time, ability to enter and exit an automobile, sufficient arm, hand, finger dexterity to use a personal computer keyboard, multimedia, and other office equipment, sufficient hearing and speaking skills to project voice and communicate with staff and children in classroom settings and one-on-one conversations, perceiving the nature of sound, near and far visual acuity, depth perception imparting oral information, the manual dexterity to operate business-related equipment, and manipulate various materials and objects are important aspects of this job.