About us

Located in the beautiful city of Vancouver, the award-winning Vancouver Public Library has been dedicated to meeting the lifelong learning, reading and information needs of Vancouver residents for more than 100 years. Our vision is an informed, engaged, and connected city. Our mission is a free place for everyone to discover, create and share ideas and information.

Our public library is the last freely available indoor public space in Vancouver – open to everyone. We help people of all ages to pursue their passions and to fulfil their creative potential. In March, VPL opened the Inspiration Lab – a 7,500 square foot digital media hub to support community creativity and to help bridge the digital divide. Across 21 locations and online, VPL is the most-visited major urban library per capita in Canada.

We are located in a city often cited as one of the best places in the world to live. Vancouver, with a population of 600,000, includes dynamic and diverse communities in a metropolitan region of 2 million.

About the opportunity

The Library is seeking a strategic and creative leader to join its management team. Reporting to the Director, Planning and Organizational Development, the Manager, Policy & Planning is responsible for providing objective and comprehensive research and analysis to support strategic initiatives and plans; for evaluation and impact assessment; for the development, revision and review of policies and procedures; and for making recommendations for changes in methods, processes and procedures that may impact operational areas such as staffing workloads, working conditions, changes in positions or staffing levels. The incumbent provides analysis for the senior leadership team as well as for the Vancouver Public Library Board as required.

This position requires strong collaboration and communication skills, experience designing and conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis including outcomes-based evaluation, collegial decision-making and interest-based problem solving skills, flexibility and the ability to manage multiple and competing priorities.

Vancouver Public Library offers a competitive and comprehensive salary and benefits package. This is a management position, exempt from the bargaining unit.

Does this sound like you?

Strong evaluation and impact assessment skills
Experienced manager of a successful team
Creative problem solver
Skilled project manager
Committed to the success of the organization as a whole
Curious to explore challenges and to find solutions
Eager to provide insights and evidence to support the value and impact of the library

We require:

Post-graduate degree in Planning, Social Sciences or other relevant discipline or a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from an ALA accredited library school
Post-secondary courses in management studies
Five years recent relevant experience, including a minimum of two years experience in a supervisory position; demonstrated leadership and managerial skills; demonstrated research, analysis and report writing skills.

Interested?

Are you the person described above?

Expressions of interest accompanied by a résumé should be submitted by 5:00 pm on Monday, July 6, 2015 by ONE of the following methods:

Mail: Human Resources Department
Vancouver Public Library
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1