Working at VPL
Located in the beautiful city of Vancouver, the award-winning Vancouver Public Library has been dedicated to meeting the lifelong learning, reading and information needs of Vancouver residents for more than 100 years. Our vision is an informed, engaged, and connected city. Our mission is a free place for everyone to discover, create and share ideas and information.
Vancouver Public Library believes in recruiting and retaining a qualified workforce that reflects our community. We value a diverse workforce and are committed to hiring practices that are fair and equitable.
Diversity is directly linked to workplace excellence, creativity, and innovation. By reflecting the community we serve, VPL can continue to provide exceptional public service to our citizens. Knowledge and experience of other cultures, languages, perspectives and groups are strengths VPL values in its employees.
Our Respectful Workplace and Human Rights & Harassment policies support an accessible, respectful and inclusive working environment.
Benefits
Career Development
VPL is proud of its commitment to career development. Our role as an organization is to create a climate of learning where employees are supported to increase their knowledge, skills and abilities to enable career development and to improve service delivery to our customers.
Work-life Balance
VPL offers:
- Comprehensive health care benefits, based on employee status
- Excellent vacation and time off provisions
- Free and confidential counseling services
- Job sharing
- Access to an in-house fitness and shower facilities at our Central Library
- Bike storage and on-site parking (location-dependent)
- An extensive range of training programs and workshops
- Municipal Pension Plan contributions based on your employee status
- On-call employees are paid a percentage in lieu of benefits