Senior Librarian

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Senior Librarian

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Front Range Community College

Division: Academic Affairs

Department: FRCC Libraries

Campus: Larimer Campus

Location: Fort Collins

Salary Range: $59,349 - $62,316 annually

Who We Are:

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities. 

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek. 

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body. 

The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive. 

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence. 

Job Summary:

The Senior Librarian provides vision, leadership and strategies for the joint use College-Public Harmony library, in collaboration with the Library Manager of the Poudre River Public Library District. The Senior Librarian is responsible for the overall day-to-day College library operations. In so doing, this role contributes to the strategic goals of the college by helping create a superior student experience. The position provides high-quality delivery of a broad range of library services, including instruction, outreach, reference, and collection management to a diverse community of users in support of the College’s curriculum and mission to enrich lives through learning. The Senior Librarian coordinates circulation and reserve room services and assists with creating online research guides and virtual tutorials.

This individual serves as the liaison for Harmony Library with Library District, Campus Security, Information Technology, Facilities Staff, and is responsible for building and sustaining strategic alliances both within and across disciplines, and within and outside the College. The position is also responsible for the budget and auxiliary accounts in addition to coordinating vendor services in the building. In addition, the Senior Librarian manages the library computer lab, hires work study students, and student hourly staff, and supervises part-time hourly library staff. The position primarily serves the information access needs of college patrons (students, faculty, and staff) while also providing support to community patrons.

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Leadership  

• Provides strategic leadership for the College library operations, ensuring high-quality service delivery to students, faculty, instructors, and staff. 

• Leads the joint-use partnership with the Harmony Library by collaborating closely with the Deputy Director/Library Manager to align services and resources.  

• Develops, manages, and monitors the campus library budget and auxiliary accounts to ensure fiscal responsibility and alignment with departmental priorities. 

• Coordinates material circulation operations, ensuring efficient and accurate workflows. 

• Ensures college materials access complies with local and national standards. 

• Prepares and delivers regular reports to the college leadership on library usage trends to inform planning and resource allocation. 

• Manages vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective, high-quality library resources and services. 

• Engage in ongoing professional development through self-study, continuing education and active engagement with colleagues in the library and information science field. 

• Collaborates with Westminster and Boulder County Campus library staff to ensure consistent service delivery, learning opportunities, and outreach efforts across all three campuses 

• Serve as the primary point of contact for any facilities/building maintenance issues and coordinate with the Campus Security and Preparedness staff on any security issues/emergencies that involve the Library, including during off hours such as evenings and weekends. 

• Oversees library technology and access library computer lab to support student and faculty needs. 

• Partners with FRCC and the Library District to ensure that computers remain current and fully functional. 

Teaching and Reference Support 

• Designs, and delivers information literacy classes and programs in collaboration with faculty, instructors, and staff, including providing formal instruction in various research strategies. 

• Collaborates with library staff across the college to develop and maintain library research guides, including LibGuides to support student and faculty research needs. 

• Provides research assistance, reference support, and library instruction to FRCC students, library patrons, faculty, instructors, administrators, and staff both in-person and virtual channels. 

• Coordinates access to college materials according to local and national standards. 

Collaboration and Outreach 

• Serves on library and college committees as assigned, contributing library expertise to institutional initiatives. 

• Serves as primary liaison with Harmony Library staff, FRCC Facilities, FRCC Information Technology, FRCC Campus Security staff, as well as local public and academic libraries. 

• Leads outreach efforts and fosters collaborative relationships with staff and faculty to increase awareness of library resources to advance student success. 

• Provides subject-matter guidance on the development and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER). 

Collection Development 

• Develops and maintains a comprehensive print and non-print collection, including the college reserve collection, to ensure robust support for college curriculum and accreditation standards. 

• Conducts ongoing evaluation of electronic journal access, identifying and implementing improvements to content, navigation, and access. 

Supervision 

• Hires, trains, and supervises student employees, and hourly staff, as assigned, ensuring effective onboarding and performance standards. 

• Mentors and coaches library staff to support professional growth and performance improvement, providing regular feedback and documenting performance concerns in accordance with college policy and progressive discipline procedures.

Competencies/KSAs:

• Leadership: Leads College library operations in collaboration with the Poudre Valley Public Library District for the joint use of the Harmony Library.  
• Collaboration: Works effectively with college departments and faculty/instructors across the College and with the Poudre Valley Public Library staff.  
• Library Vendor Management: Coordinates with vendors regarding library resources and electronic databases.  
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Supports academic departments by staying current with trends to enhance student learning while integrating an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens.
• Information Technology Application: Updates knowledge of new and emerging technologies to innovate library services that enhance student learning.
• Communication skills (verbal and written): Communicates with students, staff, faculty, instructors and library district partners regarding library resources. 
• Pedagogical and information retrieval methodology: Supports academic departments and students with digital literacy and library services.
• Innovation: Keeps up to date with development of and advocate for open education resources and other educational trends that enhance student success. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Library Science from an American Library Association regionally accredited post-secondary institution.  

• Five years of progressively responsible experience in a library.  

• Familiarity with current and emerging library technologies and approaches. 

Selection Process:

The selection process for this position will be conducted through a competitive, merit-based evaluation of all qualified applicants. Preliminary screening will be based on the completed application package submitted by the candidate. 

Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of August 30, 2026 at 11:55pm .  

This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions. 

Application Instructions: 

In your application, please include a resume and cover letter that specifically address how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position. 

The application will ask for you to provide three references. We ask that they are all professional references and at least one is a current/recent supervisor.  

Additional Information/Benefits:

Salary Information: The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate’s education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position’s scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value. 

Benefits Information: For information about benefits for Administrative, Professional and Technical Employees and Faculty, please see the Front Range Community College Benefits page.

Welcoming. Inclusive. Respectful. Together, we are FRCC.