Regional Manager

Regional Manager

The Seattle Public Library's mission is to bring people, information and ideas together to enrich lives and build community. We view Seattle as a city where imagination and opportunity continue to thrive. Since 1891, we have grown from a single reading room in Pioneer Square to a world-class library system with 27 locations.

The Library works every day to foster and support a healthy city and a healthy democracy. We do this work guided by the principles of intellectual freedom, literacy and the love of learning, racial equity, privacy and confidentiality, respect for the community, strong partnerships and innovation. We are an active and committed partner in the City of Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative.

Library employees are highly regarded by the public for their knowledge, quality of service and caring. As a workplace, we value respectful and transparent communication, partnership and engagement. We are enriched individually and organizationally because of our diversity and growth mindset. We take time to recognize and celebrate the achievements of others.

If you share these values and meet the qualifications, the Library invites you to apply for the Regional Manager position.

The MidCity East (MCE) Regional Manager provides leadership for four branch locations : Capitol Hill, Douglass-Truth, Madrona-Sally Goldmark and Montlake. Responsibilities include providing daily oversight and direction for assigned units as well as engaging in long-range planning to ensure that the work is aligned with our forward-looking service priorities : Youth and Early Learning, Technology and Access, Community Engagement, and Re-imagined Spaces.

The MCE Regional Manager supervises two Branch Operations Managers who lead the Capitol Hill and Douglass-Truth locations and two Supervising Librarians who lead the Madrona-Sally Goldmark and Montlake locations. This position will also lead the work of librarians and paraprofessionals (Library Associate 4s) providing patron services at these locations. In addition, the Regional Manager provides leadership for the daily work and long range planning of these departments, ensuring that information services, programming and outreach, collection maintenance, circulation and materials movement function smoothly. The MCE Regional Manager also works closely with Security and Facilities staff to provide a welcoming and safe environment.

This position reports to the Assistant Director of Library Experience, Branch Locations, and is part of the Library Experience & Engagement Division (LEED). The MCE Regional Manager will collaborate with five other Regional Managers, Central Library Information Manager, Circulation Service Manager, Youth & Family Services Manager, Community Engagement & Economic Development Service Manager, Special Collections Service Manager, and Technical and Collection Services Manager to collaboratively lead the development of responsive services and innovative operational systems and to implement and support effective policies and procedures to guide the work of LEED staff throughout the system.

The successful candidate will bring passion and commitment to the task of providing excellent, innovative library services. The ideal candidate will be a strong leader, experienced manager and a collaborative management team player. The candidate will be an excellent communicator, possessing diplomacy, tact, excellent listening skills, strong group facilitation skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, a commitment to establishing an environment of open, honest communication and rational decision-making as well as the ability to negotiate with all levels of staff to accomplish the mission and goals of the Library.

Staff members are highly regarded by the public for their knowledge and quality of service. We embrace our organizational values of respect, partnership, engagement, diversity, transparency and recognition. We foster a culture of innovation and we encourage and support employees' creativity, engagement, learning and development. If you share these values, we invite you to apply.