Continuing Education and Leadership Program Administrator

This position is a Library Program Administrator within the Division of Library and Information Services’ Bureau of Library Development.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinates, manages, plans, and implements continuing education and training opportunities for library staff throughout Florida. Liaises with Continuing Education staff of the Florida Multitype Library Cooperatives and other partners. Works with Division staff across all grant programs, and with external partners, to create interactive training modules, videos, and online asynchronous courses. Facilitates access to this content through a learning management system (e.g., Moodle) and other online repositories. Provides live and online training, workshops, and meetings. Identifies best practices, trends, and issues in the continuing education arena. Ensures ADA compliance for Bureau content.
• Develops, coordinates, administers, and evaluates the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute. Participates in the continued development and implementation of the program, in collaboration with external partners and vendors. Coordinates development and implementation of the annual Public Library Directors Meeting. Administers Florida Library Jobs grant project, with partner organization. Provides consulting services to library administrators and staff, library board members and citizen supporters.
• Supervises Bureau staff. Ensures that direct reports (and self) conform to all state and department rules and regulations.
• Participates in the management and supervisory team of the Bureau. Manages a grant-funded program, writes and reviews grant applications and reports guided by the Bureau’s strategic plan. Participates in strategic plan development.