Conservation Digitisation Manager

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Permanent – Full time
Grade: B
Salary: £33,600 per annum

The British Library is looking for a Conservation Digitisation Manager to join the conservation team.

The jobholder will manage conservation activities to enable digitisation projects, programmes and imaging. The successful candidate will manage a team of conservators for digitisation, and report on a work programme throughout the year, providing information to enable reporting against performance indicators. Work closely with counterpart Conservation Digitisation Manager and team.

The role requires project organisational skills for planning and a sound knowledge of conservation for surveying, condition assessing items and collections to enable scoping and estimating for digitisation. The jobholder will have a degree in conservation studies; demonstrate management skills, attention to detail and the ability to communicate effectively.

For more information please read the job description.

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits.  Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 28.97% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 21 July 2024
Interview date: 6 & 7 August 2024

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route.

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