Learning Resource Coordinator (Primary Library) - Yasmina British Academy
Aldar Education · Abu Dhabi, UAE
Yasmina British Academy is an outstanding English Curriculum school in the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi. With our globally recognized and admired curriculum, dedicated and passionate practitioners and outstanding teaching and learning, Yasmina British Academy is an exceptional place to work. With the transition to its multi-billion-dirham new campus now complete, Yasmina British Academy is leveraging its state-of-the-art facilities to redefine digital learning. This new multi-building campus is designed to foster a future-focused educational experience, providing students and teachers with cutting-edge technology, sustainable learning environments, and unparalleled opportunities for innovation and digital excellence.
This incredible facility is more than just a school, acting as a social, sporting and performance hub for both the local and international communities of the city. The new campus enables us to add even more value to our currently outstanding educational provision, whilst utilising the reputation of Aldar Academies’ brand to positively impact the lives of our learning community in the UAE.
It has an exciting, diverse, and progressive learning community that annually produces some of the very best I/GCSE and A Level results in the UAE. Yasmina’s learning culture is underpinned by the core values of excellence, respect, passion, collaboration, and creativity, allowing all students to thrive. Furthermore, the Academy is extremely proud of its recent ADEK inspection, which rated Yasmina British Academy as ‘Outstanding’ in all six performance standards, placing it among the top schools in the UAE and Middle East.
The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.
Key responsibilities
- Cataloguing all resources into the automated library system - DESTINY. All resources must be catalogued according to the Dewey system. Books must be labelled and covered.
- Maintaining the library data base – ensuring that records of all pupils and teachers are up to date
- Following up overdue books from both pupils and teachers; receiving money for lost or damaged books; repairing damaged books
- Signing books in and out and re-shelving the returned books
- Attending any necessary training associated with the duties of the post.
- Selecting and ordering new books appropriate to each Key Stage and interests of the pupils, as well as the requirements from the teachers for resources to support the curriculum topics
- Attend curriculum compliance meetings as required to ensure library stock meets compliance and culture sensitivity requirements.
- Scan books for compliancy in line with Aldar policy and remove/cover noncompliant material
- Collate annual order working within budget to select recourses appropriate to the age and interests of students, as well as resources to support curriculum topics.
- Process all library resources to ensure they are shelf ready (labelling and covering as required).
- Weed damaged or inappropriate stock as per CREW method
- Maintain an attractive library environment which caters for all students’ needs.
- Arranging author visits
- Developing and delivering ‘library information literacy’ sessions to ensure that pupils are able to find the resources they require whether books/magazines or on-line, enabling pupils to become independent and effective library users
- Liaising with teachers to ensure that topic-related resources are distributed to the classrooms as and when required
- Maintaining an attractive library environment which caters for all pupils’ needs, to sit and read quietly or to carry out independent study
- Redesigning the library in line with AYA vision, including creating a future-ready space with different zones (research/creative/relaxing/silent)
- Promoting reading through attractive displays to encourage pupils to enjoy a wide range of literature to foster a love of books to become life-long readers.
- Keeping up to date with new releases to be able to recommend books to pupils
- Supervise behaviour, support student use of library resources and facility at all times, either via drop-in or during scheduled library sessions
- Communication with parents to discuss active ways to help support reading at home
- Arranging book fairs with local book shop. Running House Competitions to promote whole school literacy
- Running the ‘Book Club’ where pupils can order books from a catalogue, consolidate the order for the whole school and distribute books when they arrive
- Supporting EAL students with their literacy, monitoring progress & Facilitating CATS testing
- Supporting teachers and running intervention groups
- Responsible for database admin of Accelerated Reader. Enter classes and teaching staff, perform day to day functions to maintain the program, support teachers and manage resources to support AR within the library.
- Running and Monitoring the AR and Star Reading quizzes and providing teachers with the necessary data.
- Complying with the requirements of health and safety, other relevant legislation, and school policies.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree
- At least 1 year of experience in an administrative role in the region.
- Previous experience in the Education sector is preferable.
Job Specific Knowledge & Skills
- Excellent literacy and communication skills (both written and spoken) as a large part of the role involves communicating with SLT, Heads of Department, students and parents.
- Overall, the successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, solution focused professional who has a flexible approach to work, one who is willing to take initiative, work as part of a team in an high achieving organisation and hit the ground running
This job description is not all inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this jobdescription at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse andinclusive work environment. We are also mindful of our national development strategy andencourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.
Aldar Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of appointment are subject tosatisfactory references and police clearance.