Rita Hoffmann Email & Phone Number

Library Experience:• Collaborated with other City departments, local government, community organizations, businesses, churches, and schools• Marketed library services and programs throughout the County • Successfully delivered formal presentations to groups• Extensive experience working in collaborative teams and in coordinating often disparate groups into achieving successful outcomes• Excellent research, report writing, and communication skills• Effectively managed budgets to meet annual goals• Continually train all staff in proven customer-service techniques to ensure high satisfaction ratings from library users• Initiated relationships with San Diego Community College District Continuing Education and OASIS (older adult education) to bring on-going programs to local library branches• Created a monthly concert series, ongoing community conversations, adult book clubs, ongoing art exhibits, teen gaming and digital media club, Nature Adventure Program for K-8 in collaboration with the Mission Trails Regional Park, Get Fit @ Your Library and Art Play Studio for Adults, as well as weekly STEM programming