Legal Deposit Monograph Processing Team Manager

Location: Boston Spa 
Hours: Permanent – Full time 
Grade: C 
Salary: £24,413 per annum 

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Content Acquisition Processing.  

We are seeking to recruit a team manager with proven people management experience. You will be managing a team of thirteen people responsible for the acquisition and processing of print monographic content acquired under the Legal Deposit legislation. 

The successful candidate will work with an experienced and supportive management team to deliver a high level of service that supports the British Library’s content strategy.  

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate:  
- Experience in a relevant professional capacity is required, at least part of which will have been in the management of process orientated teams, preferably working within a bibliographic environment.  
- Strong people management skills, including the ability to motivate and develop staff.  
- Good communication skills, able to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels.  
- Ability to manage resources and workloads, and good time management to meet deadlines.  
- Ability to respond proactively and constructively to departmental change management processes
- Innovative and willing to propose new opportunities for increased efficiency and productivity within the team.  
- Some evidence of analytical skills  
- Some understanding and knowledge of the main library processes and systems employed within the British Library.  
- Computer literate, with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Access and Excel, with proven ability of working with databases to retrieve or create data  

Due to the nature of the role, and the day-to-day management of staff and related workflows, the successful candidate would be required to work predominantly on site.  

Please refer to the accompanying Job profile for further details.

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: 18 August 2024 
Interview date:  4 September 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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