Content Developer: Discovering Music

Location: St Pancras
Contract: Fixed Term for 20 months
Hours: Full time - 36 hours a week
Grade: C
Salary: £28,119 per annum

The British Library is seeking to recruit a Content Developer to join the Music Collections Team at St Pancras.

This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver a new online resource, Discovering Music: Classical and Romantic. The resource will draw on the Library’s unique collections to support and enrich the study of music, tailored for teachers, students, young people, lifelong learners, academics and the general public. The ambition for this project is to create an inclusive and diverse resource that examines a broad range of music from the period 1750 to 1914. The coverage will embrace music in many genres and in relation to wider social, economic and political contexts.

Working with the Content Manager, the post-holder will be responsible for researching, selecting and interpreting source material and will collaborate on the development of new classroom resources and events for secondary schools. In addition, the post-holder will coordinate digitisation work and build new content in the Library’s Content Management System. With a focus on social media content, they will explore creative and innovative ways of promoting and sharing the resources as widely as possible with new and existing audiences, aiming to grow the reach of Discovering Music and increase its impact.

Experience of writing about and/or carrying out in-depth research on music is an essential requirement for this role, as is experience of using a Content Management System or equivalent digital platform to develop and manage digital content. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills, in particular editorial and web-authoring skills, and evidence of writing and publishing to deadline. Other requirements are outlined in the job description.

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: 19 January 2025
Interview date: 10 & 11 February 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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