Literature facilitator with a focus on youth

Would you like to contribute to developing the library's youth initiatives through communities and user involvement?

We have an ambition to strengthen the library's importance for young people through communities, a love of reading and active participation. Therefore we are looking for a colleague who can develop and run our youth initiatives and translate strategic ambitions into concrete activities, partnerships and offerings that create value for the municipality's youth.

We need you who want to help make the library a relevant and attractive actor for young people, where love of reading, well-being and participation go hand in hand. You have an eye for the varied life situations and interests of young people and understand the importance of actively involving the target group in developing relevant offerings. You know that strong communities are not created for young people, but with young people. Therefore you have experience with user involvement and the ability to translate young people's perspectives and ideas into activities, projects and partnerships with real value.

At the same time, you should strengthen the library's role as an active partner in the municipality's overall welfare effort. Therefore we are looking for a profile who can build strong relationships and collaborations across disciplines, institutions and local communities, and who sees opportunities in the library's special position as an open and trust-building community.

In this cross-cutting work you will be part of a professional community that develops and implements library-based initiatives where literature, culture and communities support well-being, participation and quality of life for different target groups.

You thrive on driving development in a municipal organization where new ideas must be translated into practice, and where development tasks, collaborations and daily operations go hand in hand. Therefore you are also part of the library's daily life and actively engage with citizens. Based on literature and reading, you inspire new reading experiences through strong hospitality and engaging communication.

You will be part of the daily library operations and meet citizens with different needs and interests, which requires you to thrive in a role where service and communication are as important as development work. In this way you contribute to creating a library that is experienced as open, relevant and welcoming to all of the municipality's residents.

Among other things you will work with

• development of the library's youth initiatives with a focus on love of reading, communities, well-being and user involvement
• planning and execution of activities, events and communities for young people, including literature dissemination, guided shared reading and other engaging formats
• establishing and developing collaborations and projects with schools, secondary education institutions, housing organizations, municipal departments, associations and other partners
• public service, hospitality and participation in daily library operations, where you meet citizens and communicate the library's offerings

The position includes development, relational work, communication and cross-municipal collaboration. Therefore we are looking for a colleague who can both translate ideas into concrete initiatives and create momentum around them. We envision that you have experience in working strategically and relationally, while having literature and reading as a professional foundation.

We expect that you

• have experience with young people as a target group and through strong relationships and networks are able to develop relevant offerings and communities for young people
• are a skilled literary communicator with a view to how literature, culture and communities can support young people's well-being, participation and belonging to communities
• have experience with user involvement, guided shared reading and development of community-building activities
• can translate strategic goals into concrete projects, partnerships and communication initiatives
• have experience with project management and cross-cutting collaborations in complex organizations and can navigate the interplay between strategy, operations, policy and municipal decision processes
• work in a structured way and can balance both development tasks and operational tasks

We look forward to reading your application and hearing how you will contribute to developing the library's youth initiatives and create relevant communities, activities and experiences together with the municipality's youth.

Application deadline

Your application and CV must be received no later than November 12 at 23:59.

The interviews take place on November 18 with a possible second interview on November 24. If you are the right candidate, we look forward to welcoming you with a start date of January 1, 2027.

About Lyngby-Taarbæk Libraries

Lyngby-Taarbæk Libraries consist of the City Library in Lyngby, a school/public library in Taarbæk, a library branch in Virum housed in Virumhallen, and a school/public library in Lundtofte.

Lyngby-Taarbæk Libraries make literature and the joy of reading the starting point for all our dissemination and development initiatives. We work according to the hospitality principles, where the citizen is at the center. This means that the citizen is always in focus when you are in the library space and when decisions are made about library operations. We also work according to the principles of Readers Service, which is a conversation method to help the reader reach the next good reading experience.

The City Library is staffed from 10:00 to 19:00 Monday-Thursday, Friday 10:00-18:00 and Saturday-Sunday 9:00-15:00.

Employment terms

The position is full-time, and salary and terms of employment will be in accordance with the current collective agreement. This also applies to rules regarding evening and weekend work. Within a 4-week period you can expect at least one evening shift until 19:00, one Friday shift until 18:00 and one weekend shift (Saturday and Sunday 9:00-15:00).

In addition, there will be evening and weekend work in connection with, for example, event arrangements.

If you have relevant questions about the position,

they can be directed to the Acting Library Director and Head of Department for Adults, Michelle Riis Michaelsen, at telephone 21 46 58 42.

More than a workplace: With us, you become part of a community with high professionalism. We prioritize quality in task solving and pull together to achieve the best results for the citizens of Lyngby-Taarbæk. A strong collegial atmosphere is worth its weight in gold. We help each other, laugh together and are curious about who we are. We value diversity, and the strengths we each contribute through our background, personality and abilities.

With us you will meet trustworthy leadership, well-being, good opportunities for professional and personal development, and room for creativity and new thinking. At the same time, we maintain a good balance between work life and leisure.