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Careers at PPL
Portland Public Library is an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to providing everyone with safe and free access to educational and cultural resources. PPL is Maine’s most visited cultural institution and is a valued community asset, serving residents and visitors for over 150 years.
PPL offers free shared resources – books, film, history, big ideas – in a welcoming environment to foster meaningful connection and positive change in our dynamic City. PPL believes we are stronger the more fully we align our work and our resources toward equity, accessibility, inclusion, and representation of diverse experiences and perspectives. To succeed as a Library team member requires commitment to curiosity, inclusiveness, collaboration, and creativity. We enthusiastically invite you to apply.
PPL is committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce of highly qualified staff to ensure broad perspectives, promote equity and inclusion, and connect to our wide community. Applicants with racially, ethnically, or culturally diverse identities or backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Current Job Openings
DIRECTOR OF ADULT SERVICES
Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Director of Adult Services. This position is responsible for the strategy and development of the library’s Adult Services. The position ensures that the library provides a wide range of high-quality services and full access for users to library materials and services they want and need.
Reporting to the Associate Director, this position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating system-wide research and information services, which includes reference, reader’s advisory, collection development, and programs for adult audiences. Sets standards for reference staff, provides system-wide direction, coordinates implementation of services, and develops related policies and protocols.
This is a full-time, 37.5 hours per week onsite position, normally scheduled for Monday through Friday. Pay commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance (among other voluntary benefits), retirement options (in lieu of Social Security), and paid leave. This position is non-union.
Application Details
To apply, please send your resume, letter of interest, and three professional references via email to careers@portlib.org or via mail to:
Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland ME 04101
SENIOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT (TEEN)
Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Senior Library Assistant for Teen. Reporting to the Teen Librarian, the person in this position is accountable for the delivery of reference and readers’ advisory services to teens ages 12-19 while staffing the Teen Library. The Senior Library Assistant may aid in the selection, maintenance, and promotion of materials for the Teen collection. Works collaboratively with the Teen Librarian in preparing, promoting and executing a wide range of library offerings for teenagers.
This position works primarily in the Downtown Teen Library and is a member of the Youth Services department.
The Senior Library Assistant works with a wide variety of the public and facilitates a variety of patron requests. They must be able to interact effectively and manage sometimes difficult situations. This work is performed in a fast-paced environment and requires an exceptional level of customer service.
This is a union-represented, part-time, 20 hours per week onsite position, normally scheduled to work Monday 12-5pm, Tuesday 1-6pm, Wednesday 10-3pm, and Thursday 12-5pm. Pay begins at $19.12/hr.
Application Details
To apply, please send your resume, letter of interest, and three professional references via email to careers@portlib.org or via mail to:
Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland ME 04101
SENIOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT (LENDING & PUBLIC COMPUTING)
Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Senior Library Assistant for Lending & Public Computing. Reporting to the Lending/PC Desk Supervisor, the Senior Library Assistant is an integral member of the desk services at the Downtown Library providing customer service and support to library users at the Lending and Public Computing desks. The Lending/Public Computing Services Section of Access Services provides high-quality, efficient services to the people of Portland and Southern Maine.
The Lending Desk is the “front door” of the library, and the Senior Library Assistant is in the position of setting a welcoming and positive tone for a patron’s experience at the library and provides an initial point of instruction to the public. The Senior Library Assistant regularly works with a wide variety of the public and facilitates a variety of patron account and computer access matters. They must be able to interact effectively and manage sometimes difficult situations. This work is performed in a fast-paced environment and requires an exceptional level of customer service.
This is a union-represented, part-time, 20 hours per week onsite position, normally scheduled to work Mondays 9:45am-5:00pm, Thursdays 10:45am-6:00pm, and Fridays 10am-5pm. In every third week, the Monday hours will instead be worked on Saturday 9:45am-5pm. These hours will take effect after training. Pay begins at $19.78/hr.
Excellent benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement options (in lieu of Social Security), and paid leave.
Application Details
To apply, please send your resume, letter of interest, and three professional references via email to careers@portlib.org or via mail to:
Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland ME 04101
SENIOR LIBRARY ASSOCIATE (INTERLIBRARY LOAN)
Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Senior Library Associate for Interlibrary Loan. The person in this position is responsible for library work of a complex nature in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) section of The Access Services Department. This position is responsible for providing materials to patrons through transactions which make library materials available from one library to another in a statewide and international interlibrary loan service network.
Reporting to the ILL supervisor, this position’s primary responsibilities are receiving, organizing, and processing ILL lending requests through a variety of channels from libraries worldwide and doing the same for ILL borrowing requests from local patrons. In addition, this position has primary responsibility for photocopy acquisitions for local patrons and providing photocopies to non-Region 1 or Region 2 requestors.
This is a union-represented, full-time, 37.5 hours per week onsite position, scheduled to work Monday-Friday after training. Pay begins at $21.82/hr. Excellent benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement options (in lieu of Social Security), and paid leave.
Application Details
To apply, please send your resume, letter of interest, and three professional references via email to careers@portlib.org or via mail to:
Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument
MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN II
Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Maintenance Technician II.
Reporting to the Facilities Manager (or a Facilities Specialist in the Manager’s absence,) this position is responsible for performing a wide array of tasks to support library operations and facilities, including but not limited to deliveries, room set-ups, maintenance, and general repairs, while creating and maintaining a clean, pleasant, safe, and productive environment for library patrons and staff. This work is performed throughout the Downtown Library’s large public spaces, and at branch locations across Portland.
This is a union-represented, full-time, 37.5 hours per week onsite position, normally scheduled to work Monday through Friday, after training.
Pay begins at $19.78/hr. Excellent benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement options (in lieu of Social Security), and paid leave.
Application Details
To apply, please send your resume, letter of interest, and three professional references via email to careers@portlib.org or via mail to:
Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
LIBRARY SAFETY SPECIALIST (SECURITY)
Portland Public Library is seeking a Library Safety Specialist.
Reporting to the Library Safety Manager, this position works with the Library staff in various departments and patrons to ensure a welcoming and safe environment for all. The Library Safety Specialist serves the Library’s patrons and staff by watching over their safety and addressing emergent security situations. The Specialist consults and coordinates with other Library staff as needed and exercises independent judgement to determine the appropriate course of action. The Specialist also works closely with the Community Resource Coordinator(s), the Facilities staff, and lends support when needed. As a member of the Library Safety team, this position reports to the Library Safety Manager.
This is a full-time, 37.5 hour per week onsite position. This position is Tuesday to Saturday. Pay range begins at $21.82/hr. Excellent benefits include health, dental, vision, retirement, and paid leave.
Application Details
To apply, please send your resume, letter of interest, and three professional references via email to careers@portlib.org or via mail to:
Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland ME 04101
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