Summary
Description
The Denver Public Library (DPL) is a growing urban library system that serves the residents of the City & County of Denver. DPL sees more than 4 million visitors every year across its 27 locations, serves Denver’s most vulnerable communities through outreach and mobile services, hosts thousands of programs a year and manages a collection of more than 1.4 million physical and digital materials. We believe a strong library is vital for a strong community. DPL is committed to serving the evolving needs of Denverites through inspired programming, diverse collections, culturally-representative spaces, and equitable policies & procedures.
As a Business Operations Administrator, your job will be to work closely with leaders within DPL’s Service Design and Coordination subdivision and across the organization, supporting the core goals of the subdivision. This position would help serve as a central point of contact for coordination responsibilities working toward consistency and efficiency. Your primary location will be at the Central Library, however, DPL reserves the right to reassign locations based upon operational and/or staffing needs at any given time.
Tasks that will fall under the responsibility of the Business Operations Administrator include:
- Working with the team to facilitate budget reconciliation efforts for our programs
- Manage the coordination of internal equipment for events that staff across our locations use
- Facilitate approvals of events in our event management system
- Schedule and assist in planning meetings and take minutes for major projects
- Recommend and implement new or revised operational/administrative procedures, requirements, and/or guidelines and communicate the changes to employees and management
- Prepare a variety of analytical and operational reports, correspondence, and other documentation and provide operational information and statistical data for management/departmental use.
About You
Our ideal candidate has:
- A sincere desire to work behind-the-scenes for an organization focused on improving the lives of people in our community.
- A willingness to work on a variety of different projects and learn new things.
- Great and timely communication skills.
- Skill in managing projects and experience in managing multiple projects at once.
- Skill in using office technology including shared documents, spreadsheets, calendar management, etc.
- Skill in working with data.
- Skill in communicating, collaborating and establishing effective working relationships with coworkers across levels of an organizational hierarchy.
- Ability to creatively solve problems, negotiate, and handle stressful situations in apositive manner.
- Ability to model positive attitude, excellent interpersonal skills, cultural sensitivity and a sense of humor in working with customers, coworkers and community.
- Ability to train and lead others in new processes.
- Ability to demonstrate innovation and flexibility.
- Ability to frequently adopt and teach new tools, software and technology.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Three (3) years of experience administering business operations or operational programs and/or assisting professional/management staff with administrative or operational functions.
- Education/Experience Equivalency: One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education.
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LA2627 Business Operations Administrator
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Position Type
UnlimitedLibrary Hiring Range
$58,656.00 – $77,719.00Starting Pay
Agency
Denver Public LibraryAssessment Requirement
The City and County of Denver provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, or any other status protected under federal, state, and/or local law.
It is your right to access oral or written language assistance, sign language interpretation, real-time captioning via CART, or disability-related accommodations. To request any of these services at no cost to you, please contact
Jobs@Denvergov.org
with three business days’ notice.
Applicants for employment with the City and County of Denver must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.
