Library Assistant (Cannon’s Creek)

The Cannon’s Creek library team provides a wide range of library services, collections, and spaces to the residents of Porirua City that support the community in relation to literacy, knowledge, information, research and study, recreation, and leisure activities.

As a result of our new premises, we have three new part-time roles available.

The three roles available would work the following hours, and you would need to commit to working these shifts each week.

1. Monday through Thursday 11:30am – 3:30pm at Cannons Creek Library (16 hours per week)
2. Friday 11:30am – 3:30pm, Saturday 9:00am – 1:00pm at Cannons Creek Library (8 hours per week)
3. Wednesday through Friday 11:30am – 3:30pm at Porirua City Library, Saturday 9:00 – 1:00pm at Cannons Creek Library (16 hours per week)

Let us know any your availability and role preference in your cover letter

All about the roles

We are looking for someone who is community minded with previous customer service experience, who can deliver a great experience for our diverse community. If you can speak a second language such as Arabic, or one of the Pasifika languages this would be ideal.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing customer focused, innovated and effective library services
• Assisting with enquiries from our users, including digital/computer support, and reference enquiries
• Helping deliver children’s activities
• Creating a welcoming and stimulating environment for visitors to the library
• General front desk duties such as answering general customer queries and issuing and returning items
• Shelving returned items
• Assisting with the opening and closing of the library as needed.

Porirua City is a living wage accredited employer and the hourly rate for this position is $30.87.

All about you

It would be fabulous if you have a strong desire to encourage literacy for our community and are passionate about customer service.

You’ll need to show us that you:

• have previous experience working in a library or customer service environment
• will focus on customer service being at the heart of everything you do
• have great technology and digital skills
• are calm, capable and resilient
• are organised, reliable and committed to working as part of a team
• are methodical and conscientious in your approach to work
• can pass a police safety check

What you need to do now

Come and join our busy and engaged Libraries team and be part of our welcoming and engaging environment. Please contact Donyale Bryant, branch Libarian on 04 237 8354, or email [email protected] for more information.

Porirua City Council is committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.  We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you have any support or access requirements during our recruitment process, please let us know when you apply, and we’ll do our best to get you sorted.

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You will need to apply via our careers centre: www.poriruacity.govt.nz/careers.

Applications close on Monday 17 August 2026.

We will be working through applications as they are submitted and may progress candidates prior to the closing date, so apply now!