Hi Everyone and Happy Monday! Hartland's Cromaine Library is looking for a passionate, creative full-time Community Relations Manager to join our wonderful service-oriented team. Please visit www.cromaine.org/job-board for the full job description and application. We hope to hear from you soon! Additional information below: As the Cultural Center of Hartland, Hartland’s Cromaine is expected by its community to offer music and art, as well as all of the science, engineering and technology engagement possible for all ages. We have a full-time Community Relations Manager position available to lead a 3-person department with several projects in the strategic plan. Your responsibilities include grant-writing and gift development, oversight of the Library’s print and online communications, including advertising, and contributing to and administration of the library’s extensive event calendar. You’ll work with a highly collaborative management team and your own staff to produce creative, innovative and exciting promotions and gift- and grant- based series programs that meet our community’s desires and exceed their expectations. Cromaine District Library is located near the intersection of M-59 and US-23—easy to get to from Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Flint. Hartland’s Cromaine (built in 1927, expanded in 1980 and again in 2017). We have a serious commitment to outreach, participating in many events and exhibits beyond our walls as well as finding new ways to be active outside this building in a busy community. To succeed in this position you must have a passion for this community—a small town kind of place with a long-standing culture of connection and commitment to caring. Cromaine wins grants, including several National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read. Grants for technology in Youth, local business sponsorships for the summer concert series, exhibits from the Smithsonian and to be a pilot for a national grant program—we are a place to connect to culture, music, technology, makers, as well as reading in every format. Many of the grants support a very full event calendar (check it out at www.cromaine.org/event-calendar) which you will be instrumental in creating. We are an Advantage, hoopla, and RB Digital magazine and audiobook library. We also offer Kanopy and Universal Class, services supporting our lifelong learners. We welcome new technologies and ways to improve collections and services, taking seriously every patron request for both popular materials and those more esoteric. We pay non-MLS managers from $19.00 to $20.50 per hour to start; MLS managers start at $23.74 to $24.76; 40 hours per week with half-hour paid lunch; includes some evenings and weekends with Sundays at time and one-half. MLA membership and national conference attendance (in rotation) paid. Full-time positions at Cromaine have paid vacation, sick and business time (available after completion of the 6-month introductory period), plus holiday pay, paid birthday and paid bereavement leave. Health insurance (an HSA plan) is provided for the employee and the employee may purchase health insurance for dependents at the library’s rates. Dental insurance, optical coverage, life insurance, short- and long-term disability are all provided for the employee. You may purchase several AFLAC plans at the library’s rate with a pre-tax deduction. TIAA-CREF defined contribution retirement is provided at 10% employer contribution and immediately vested with no required employee match. *Lead a staff committed to public service for a community that loves its library and its library staff even more.* Send your application (available at www.cromaine.org/job-board), resume and a cover letter plus two references and proof of degree to “Community Relations” at PO Box 308. Or send by email to brentola@cromaine.org as soon as possible—position applications received prior to January 10, 2020 preferred; applications accepted until filled. Meagan Brown Interim Adult Services Manager Hartland's Cromaine Library 3688 N. Hartland Rd. <https://maps.google.com/?q=3688+N.+Hartland+Rd.%C2%A0+Hartland,+MI+48353+(810&entry=gmail&source=g> Hartland, MI 48353 <https://maps.google.com/?q=3688+N.+Hartland+Rd.%C2%A0+Hartland,+MI+48353+(810&entry=gmail&source=g> cromaine.org 810-632-5200 ext. 113