EAP Image Processing Officer

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed Term for 12 months – Full time
Grade: C
Salary: £27,300 per annum

The British Library is seeking to recruit an Image Processing Officer to join the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP). EAP provides funding for international projects to record and digitise endangered collections across the world. The successful applicant will support the processing and ingest of digital images supplied by EAP projects.

The role involves working independently, with support from colleagues, to manage corrupt images from early projects and resolve issues in the upload of images to cloud storage for more recent projects. This is to ensure all digitised content is processed, preserved, and made accessible, which requires strong problem-solving skills and collaboration with stakeholders.

This post is for one year with the potential for extension dependent on funding.

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: 24 November 2024
Interview date: 9 December 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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