Overnight Manager,
Melville Library- Stony Brook University
Job reference code: 1700448
DEADLINE: March 15, 2017
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Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute. Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New York, the Mellon Award winning Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Overnight Manager will manage a unit of Melville Library which is open 24 hours, four days a week, in the late night (12:00 am) to early morning (8:00 a.m.) hours. The incumbent will supervise two part time and/or student assistants and graduate students who staff the library during overnight hours. The incumbent will also work the same late night and early morning schedules and some limited day working hours in order to keep in contact with library administration and other library units. S/he will be responsible for all aspects of managing the Library during overnight hours and for providing reference services to library users.
The incumbent will be expected to resolve difficult patron, security and emergency issues/situations/problems occurring during the overnight hours and will serve as a liaison with the campus police. S/he will be responsible for developing, assigning and maintaining the overnight shift schedules in order to ensure that there is adequate staff coverage during overnight hours of operation and coordinate with the Evening/Weekend Team Manager, as well as with other Library Department heads to ensure coverage in the Libraries. The incumbent will be expected to schedule him/herself as part of the team coverage.
QUALIFICATIONS:
REQUIRED:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Management, Hospitality or a related field.
- In lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree, a combination of directly related full time experience and/or education totaling four years may be considered.
- Two years of full time customer service or related experience providing service to patrons/customers.
- Previous supervisory experience. Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel.
PREFERRED:
Experience in library public (customer) service.
Previous security related experience.
Experience dealing with College or University student populations.
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