JOB TITLE:              MEDIA SPECIALIST

SALARY LEVEL:  NEGOTIATED SALARY SCHEDULE

DEPARTMENT:      LIBRARY/MEDIA

REPORTS TO:         SITE PRINCIPAL

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Master’s Degree (M.S.) from four year college or university; or one to two years experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.  Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.  Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style.  Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumferences, and volume.  Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

REASONING ABILITY:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands or fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and extreme heat.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Operates and supervises the media center to which assigned.
2. Evaluates, selects and requisitions new media center materials 
3. Assists teacher in the selection of books and other instructional materials, and makes media center materials available to supplement the instructional program.
4. Informs teachers and other staff members concerning new materials the media center acquires.
5. Maintains a comprehensive and efficient system for cataloging all media center materials, and instructs teachers and students on use of the system. 
6. Arranges for interlibrary loan of materials of interest or use to teachers. 
7. Works with teachers in planning those assignments likely to lead to exte4nded us of media center resources.
8. Promote appropriate conduct of student using media center facilities. 
9. Helps students to develop habits of independent reference work and to develop skill in the use of reference materials in relation to planned assignments. 
10. Presents and discusses material with a class studying a particular topic, on the invitation of the teacher. 
11. Participates at curriculum meetings.
12. Counsels with and gives reading guidance to students who have special reading problems or unusual intellectual interests.
13. Arranges frequently-changing-book-related displays and exhibits likely to interest the media center’s patrons’.
14. Prepares and administers the media center budget.
15. Supervises the clerical routines necessary for the smooth operation of the media center.
16. Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the administrator.