Digitisation Conservator

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed Term until 31/12/2026 – Full time
Grade: C
Salary: £27,300 per annum

The British Library is looking for two Digitisation Conservators to join the Conservation for Digitisation Team.

As Digitisation Conservator you will examine, prepare and conserve items from the British Library’s collections for imaging as part of in-house, philanthropically funded or commercial digitisation projects. You will also enable the workflow of items in the imaging studio by condition assessing, conserving items and working closely with colleagues across the library.

You will have recent practical hands-on experience in conservation of manuscripts, books and paper-based items and an understanding of digitisation methods and workflow. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and strong commitment to developing treatment options for items requiring conservation within the guiding principle of minimal intervention and/or fit-to-purpose which enables items to be digitised while adhering to conservation professional ethics.

Other essential requirements are outlined in the job description.

We encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented, these include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disable people and LGBTQI+ people.

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: 5 January 2025
Interview date: 20 & 21 January 2025

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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