Student Engagement Librarian

Location : Berea Job Type: Full-Time Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid Division: Provost Department: Hutchins Library Opening Date: 10/13/2025 FLSA: Exempt Salary Grade: 7 Labor Supervisor?: Yes Please note that references provided at the time of application for staff positions will not be contacted until the applicant has been offered the position. Description: The Student Engagement Librarian drives student success by designing and delivering engaging research instruction, providing direct assistance, and managing essential collection development. This position actively collaborates with campus partners to integrate library services into student support efforts and represents the library at campus events. A critical component of the role is supervising and mentoring student employees under the college's labor program, while also contributing to campus governance and pursuing professional development. Your Key Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Regular and predictable attendance is essential. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • Collaborate with campus partners and student leaders to integrate library services into student support efforts, promote engagement, and represent the library at campus events. • Support student success through supervision, mentoring, active involvement in student-centered programs and activities, and coordinate programs aligned with patron interests. • Design and deliver in-person and online instruction, including workshops, tutorials, research guides, and class sessions across disciplines. • Provide research assistance through in-person and virtual reference services, including scheduled consultations, as assigned, including one night per week and occasional weekends. • Perform collection development and liaison responsibilities, including evaluating, selecting, and weeding print, audiovisual, and electronic materials. • Remain informed on trends in academic librarianship and participate in professional development through research, creative projects, and involvement in relevant organizations. • Contribute to campus service and governance through participation in departmental, divisional, and college-wide committees, initiatives, and program development. • In support of Berea College's great commitments, this position requires student supervision. The fourth great commitment is to promote learning and community service through the student labor program, honoring the dignity and value of all work, whether mental or manual, and taking pride in work well done. The Supervision would include scheduling, assigning, and approving work performed. Developing students' common workplace acumen and giving them tangible work experience is an expected outcome. To learn more about the student labor program and requirements for this position see: Other roles/duties will be assigned as necessary to assist the College in the attainment of the goals set forth and the enhancement of a positive, respectful learning environment for all staff, faculty and students. What You'll Bring: Education required to ensure success in this position: • Master's in Library Science (MLS), Master's in Library and Information Science (MLIS), or an equivalent degree from an ALA-accredited institution required. Candidates in their final semester of an MLS/MLIS program are encouraged to apply. Experience required to ensure success in this position: • At least one year of library related experience • Experience with outreach, programming, or other initiatives designed to engage students or community is preferred. Special skills, knowledge, and abilities: • Creativity, initiative, and interest in innovative approaches to reference/research assistance, library instruction, and liaison work. • Demonstrated understanding of issues and trends in reference and information literacy. • Strong understanding of pedagogy and best practices in information literacy. • Demonstrated excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to foster positive working relationships and build partnerships. • Demonstrated ability to work proactively and effectively with faculty. • Strong understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives for academic libraries. • Effective time, organizational, and project management skills with the ability to work independently and as a member of a collaborative team. License, certification, or registration necessary: • N/A Physical requirements: • N/A Environmental conditions: • Campus-wide environments, • Typical office environment Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise. Berea's students excel in the College's supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only ten federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2025. Washington Monthly has named Berea College the #1 Best College in the nation in its 2025 College Guide. Berea College appears in their rankings as #1 College (overall): Best College for your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, #1 Best-in Class College, #1 Liberal Arts College and #1 Best Bang for the Buck Southern College. Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here. Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application! Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status. Our Benefits: Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement. Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave. Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis. To learn more details, visit our benefits page at Our Unique Culture: Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College's inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea Labor Supervision: In support of Berea College's great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. 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