Project Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong spatial reasoning skills, including perception, visualization, and rotation.
• Ability to perform multi-step, detail-oriented tasks accurately and efficiently.
• Ability to work effectively with a small, tight-knit team.
• Communication skills and the ability to understand and implement directions.
• Tolerance for long, repetitive, and sometimes physically demanding tasks.
• Ability to use hands and fingers and reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds and move up to 100 pounds using an assisted device.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds overhead.
• Ability to climb ladders and maintain balance while shelving and pulling items.
• Ability to traverse the entirety of the library.
• Close-reading vision, defined as clear vision at 20 inches or less.
• Ability to collaborate with a small team, adjust to changes in the work environment and location, tolerate repetitive tasks, coordinate and communicate with team leaders, and maintain attention to single tasks for extended periods.

Nice To Haves

• Organizational literacy and efficiency.
• Teamwork and independent labor.
• Basic knowledge of library organizational systems.
• Ability to understand and complete large-scale organizational tasks.
• Planning and operational skills.
• Library organizational and maintenance experience.

Responsibilities

• Complete duties assigned by the project lead.
• Shift, haul, and cart items between Burling Library, Kistle Science Library, and the offsite storage facility.
• Pull listed items for recycling and/or relocation.
• Complete cleaning and other maintenance tasks as needed.
• Follow library organizational systems to place materials correctly.
• Work collaboratively with a small team and communicate and implement directions.