Reference Manager - Humanities & Science

Location: St Pancras

Hours: Permanent – Full time

Grade: A

Salary: £40,950 per annum

This interesting role is responsible for managing the Social Science, Science, Humanities, News and Media reference teams and services, onsite and remotely at the British Library. We are seeking an experienced teams and people manager to develop and lead Team Leaders in Reference Services in these subject areas by facilitating user-centric access to the British Library's information and content in all formats, and to develop and improve services over time.

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:  20 January 2025

Interview date:  29 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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