English speaking vacancies in Holland: VACANCY: E-Librarian Den Haag/ The Hague

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

VACANCY: E-Librarian Den Haag/ The Hague

E-Librarian
Location:     The Hague
Job Code:     240096
# of openings:     1
Description

E-librarian

The International Baccalaureate is a not-for profit foundation, which offers four high quality and challenging educational programmes for a worldwide community of schools. For over 40 years, IB programmes have gained a reputation for their high academic standards, for preparing students for life in a globalised 21st century, and for helping to develop the citizens who will create a better, more peaceful world. Founded in 1968, currently there are close to 1 million IB students at 3,450 schools in 143 countries across the world.
The IB is now recruiting for the position of e-Librarian to manage its eLibrary and contents. The eLibrary stores multi-lingual digital curriculum, professional development, administrative and other resources and their associated metadata. These resources are used by IB Schools, IB teachers and coordinators, the IB community, and the IB organization. The metadata used by the eLibrary and its associated tools are based on the IB Metadata Application Profile (IB MAP).

The post holder will be responsible for:
• Management and curation of existing collections
• Cataloguing and classification of content for retrieval according to the IB MAP
• Acquisition and description of new collections or resources
• Communication and support for stakeholders using the eLibrary
• Management of the application profile and controlled vocabularies

The successful post holder will have the following:
• Masters in Library and Information Science
• 3 years of relevant digital content management experience
• Direct experience of content analysis for cataloguing and classification purposes
• Native English proficiency (written and oral)

The successful post holder will demonstrate his/ her experience of:
• Information retrieval
• Repository management tools
• Metadata standards and their bindings (XML) relevant to the e-learning domain
• Superior communication skills (written and oral)
• Experience in collaborative team work and in managing small teams
• Familiarity with different aspects of the K-12 sector

And possess the following skills (desirable):
• Experience with repository applications (DSpace)
• French and Spanish reading proficiency
• Familiarity with Intellectual Property Rights and copyright issues (including creative commons licensing) in digital library contexts

Startdate: 1 December 2014

Location: The post will be based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

The International Baccalaureate is an equal opportunities employer.

http://ldd.tbe.taleo.net/ldd01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IBO&cws=1&rid=1071&source=indeed.com

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Introduction of the ‘European Blue Card’

As from 19 June 2011 the Netherlands has a new purpose of stay: the European Blue Card. The European Blue Card is a separate purpose of stay in addition to the existing National Highly Skilled Migrant Programme. The EU Blue Card Council Directive is intended for highly skilled foreign nationals who do not have EU, EEA or Swiss nationality, and who wish to work in one of the member states of the EU. The Directive is also meant to make it easier to settle in another EU member state. A residence permit will always be required in that other member state, however. To obtain this residence permit the employee must comply with the conditions applicable in that member state.

The conditions for residence in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder are stricter than those for residence as a Highly Skilled Migrant. The employee must have a contract for highly qualified employment for at least one year, earning at least EUR 60,000 gross (in 2011). The employee must have completed a course of higher education lasting at least three years. The employee must prove this by having his diploma assessed by Nuffic. For a regulated profession, a competent authority will take decisions about the admission to that profession.

Advantages
One of the advantages of the EU Blue Card is that it is easier for an EU Blue Card holder and his family members to settle in another EU member state at a later date. After eighteen months foreign nationals who have an EU Blue Card are exempted from the provisional residence permit (MVV) requirement, if they want to work in another EU member State. In this second member state the employee must submit an application for a residence permit as a holder of an EU Blue Card. Each member state may implement the directive in slightly different ways. If someone holds a Blue Card in the Netherlands, this does not mean that the requirements are also met in other member states.

Another advantage is that after having stayed lawfully with the EU Blue Card holder in the Netherlands for two years, the family members may apply for a residence permit for ‘continued residence’. For other purposes of stay this is only possible after having stayed lawfully in the Netherlands for three years. The family members must have resided legally and continuously within the territory of an EU member state for at least five years, however. An employee who has stayed legally in the Netherlands as an EU Blue Card holder for two years may apply for the status of ‘long-term resident as a non-EU member country national’. He must have resided legally and continuously within EU territory for five years and must comply with the other conditions for this purpose of stay.

Highly skilled migrants from outside of the EU

A highly skilled migrant is a migrant who comes to the Netherlands to be employed, and has a gross annual income of at least €47,565, or €34,881 if he/she is under thirty. This income requirement does not apply if the employee enters service for certain functions in an educational or research institution. For information on the specific functions to which this clause applies, you can inquire at the IND office for labour and highly skilled migrants. When a foreign national has been granted residence in the Netherlands as a highly skilled migrant, the employer of the highly skilled migrant is not required to be in possession of a work permit for that foreign national.

Professional soccer players, ministers of religion, teachers of religion and prostitutes are not eligible for a residency as highly skilled migrant.

Important!
The amounts stated above will be indexed every year as of 1 January.