South Creek Elementary School currently has an opening for a School Media Coordinator.  (Start Date:  January 6, 2025.)  See the job description below for more information.

 

GRADE:  State Salary Scale for Licensed Support Staff plus Local Supplement

 

REPORTS TO:  Principal; Takes direction from the Director of Instructional Technology

 

SUPERVISES:  None

 

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:  10 Months

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have or be immediately eligible for a North Carolina School Media Coordinator license.  (This license requires a Master's Degree.)
• Interested individuals without this license may qualify for a provisional School Media Coordinator license provided they have a clear NC Professional Educator's License in another area or have completed at least 18 graduate semester hours toward a School Media Coordinator program.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.  This list is meant to be representative and not exhaustive.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The School Media Coordinator is required to follow all Board of Education policies and procedures and to comply with instructions and/or directives from his/her supervisor(s).

1. Planning and Implementing for Teaching and Learning
• Assesses the learning and information needs of students and staff.
• Plans and works collaboratively with teachers.
• Instructs students and staff in the effective use of ideas and information.
• Incorporates information literacy into day-to-day instruction.
• Advocates and promotes reading and lifelong learning.
• Leads in the school's use of instructional technology to enhance learning.
• Upgrades professional knowledge and skills on a continual basis.
2. Planning and Implementing for Information Access, Evaluation, and Use
• Works with the Principal and School Leadership Team to provide flexible access to the School Library Media Center resources.
• Creates and maintains an environment conducive to learning.
• Encourages the widest possible use of print and electronic resources and services__within the School Library Media Center, throughout the school, and through remote access.
• Leads teachers, staff, and students in a collaborative process to select and evaluate resources that address curricular needs and learning goals of students and teachers in the Information Age.
• Keeps accurate inventories of print, non-print, and technology materials and equipment.
• Works cooperatively with other libraries and agencies to share resources that enhance teaching and learning.
• Implements an ongoing collection development and evaluation process that focuses on a variety of formats and resources to meet diverse learning needs.
• Adheres to copyright and other laws and guidelines pertaining to the distribution and use of resources.
• Advocates for the principles of intellectual freedom and ethical behavior.
3. Planning and Implementing for Program Administration
• Works with school staff to design and implement short and long-range plans to ensure balance among teaching, instructional technology, collaboration, collection development, and program management.
• Evaluates the School Library Media program on a continual basis according to accepted standards of qualify.
• Organizes School Library Media facilities and resources in a manner that supports the mission, goals, and objectives of the school and maximized intellectual and physical access to resources.
• Interacts effectively with students, staff, administration, and the general public to promote and expand the School Library Media program.
• Demonstrates professional integrity through ethical behavior.
• Prepares and submits accurate reports as required.
• Carries out assigned non-instructional duties and adheres to established laws, policies, rules, and regulations.
4. Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS

The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the School Media Coordinator job classification within Martin County Schools.

 

Work in this classification is considered light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally to lift objects and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. 

• Regularly requires the ability to sit and talk or hear.
• Frequently requires the ability to walk and use fingers to operate tools or controls.
• Occasionally requires the ability to stand and reach with hands and arms.
• Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.
• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions, assignments, and/or directions.
• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, manuals, legislation, graphs, charts, etc.
• Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, charts, graphs, statistical analysis, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
• Requires the ability to speak to people with poise, voice control, and confidence.
• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, and to follow oral and written instructions.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently through a variety of technical and professional languages, including psychometric, statistical, and educational research terminology.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors.  The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.  The work is performed in the school.