4/13/2022

Org Chart

[thank you for reminding me, Mary-Ellen!]

I have gotten some questions from you all about the roles/responsibilities/org chart and it came up at this morning's workshop; I've been lax in just getting some information out. In the spirit of self-awareness, I know that I sometimes feel that I have to have all of the answers and details before sharing anything and I'm trying hard to break that behavior. I appreciate reminders!

I got input on a reconfigured org chart way back when (was that really 2020?) which led to the creation of the Digital Services Librarian position and the Head of Youth Services position. It also brought in the position of what I was calling Remote Adult Services. In part, we needed to update the org chart before we hired a new Assistant Director. Maybe you remember a couple of iterations with various reporting structures since then. And then in this budget season we added the page positions.

I neglected to do any follow-up/finalization with everyone on this. I apologize. We have new/updated job descriptions for each of the four new/reconfigured positions which can be found here: https://www.library.strathamnh.gov/staff. The rest of our job descriptions should also be reviewed and updated. Courtney and Scott are finalizing a Page job description now.

The org chart looks like this:

Red lines are reporting relationships. The person you report to will be doing the appraisal process with you and passing that up to me. I need to meet with Scott and Courtney to talk about how this process works and what the timeline will be for 2022. Also we should probably have a group conversation about the process in general (putting that note onto my calendar... probably in August after summer reading).

Related: The "work breakdown structure" that the BOT requested. This gives an approximate percentage of time that any position spends on various areas of work. Small image below; a link to a readable size is here: https://www.library.strathamnh.gov/staff

I hope this information can be a starting place for more conversation.

--Lesley