Digitisation Workflow Support Officer

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed term until 31/12/2025 – Full time
Grade: C
Salary: £27,300 per annum

The British Library, in Partnership with the Qatar National Library is digitising and publishing collection items related to Qatar and the region. This partnership brings to life rare and unique items from our collections, making them accessible for audiences worldwide.

We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Digitisation Workflow Support Officer to join our dynamic team, contributing to an ambitious and impactful project. If you naturally excel at multitasking, keeping complex processes on track, and taking initiative, this role could be a great fit for you. You should possess strong IT skills, be an effective communicator with excellent written, verbal, and presentation abilities, and feel confident collaborating with individuals at all levels within the British Library.

As a Digitisation Workflow Support Officer, you will become part of the Digital Workflow Team, working alongside two Workflow Officers and the Digital Workflow Manager to oversee and manage the data workflow. Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and maintaining workflow management tools and reporting systems
- Tracking the progress of collection items and digital products as they move through the workflow
- Supporting the production and delivery of Submission Information Packages.

You will play a key role in supporting the Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme, collaborating closely with teams across cataloguing, imaging, rights clearance, and translation to ensure the smooth processing and delivery of digitised materials.

If you’re eager to make a meaningful impact by supporting the delivery and accessibility of information to communities worldwide, we’d love to hear from you.

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: 3 November 2024
Interview date: 13 November 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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