People Services Officer - Recruitment

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

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the British Library Recruitment team.

This role is responsible for the recruitment lifecycle including; setting up vacancies, advertising vacancies, inviting candidates to interview, pre-employment checks including Right to work checks, DBS Checks and issuing contracts of employment in line with KPI’s and SLA’s

In addition you will support hiring managers through the recruitment process responding to queries and ensuring recruitment is carried out in line with policy and legislation.

Strong verbal and written communication skills are imperative in this role as is the ability to prioritise workload against multiple competing deadlines.

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: 01 December 2024
Interview date:  17 and 18 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

Museum Website: https://ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=5071482BMD&VACANCY_ID=1006016BTO