Collections Liaison Librarian - London, United Kingdom - King's College London

King's College London

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Job Description

About Us

The King's community is dedicated to the service of society.

King's Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas:

educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world.

Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

The Collections Design & Delivery team, based in Education & Learning, is responsible for developing our collections through impactful liaison with faculty staff, students, and publishers.

The team delivers several key services, including Accessible Formats, Reading Lists, Digitisations and Collections Development.

This work is accomplished and informed by building and maintaining relationships with the university community and key stakeholders beyond this.

About the Role

The purpose of the role of Collections Liaison Librarian is to work with faculty staff and stakeholders to develop inclusive and diverse library collections to support curriculum design.

The post holder takes a lead in gathering insight and data, from stakeholders and systems, around how our collections are used and disseminate this knowledge to support collections management and development.

All Libraries & Collections staff are encouraged to take responsibility for their own performance and development, through agreeing clear objectives, maintaining professional awareness, participating in professional networks and reflecting on own performance.

We expect all managers to role-model a positive, proactive, flexible and committed approach that inspires others.

You will be required to participate in frontline services as required, including contributing towards a Manager on Duty rota for evening and weekend working.

This is currently a hybrid working role with both work from home and on campus. The role will be based in our department, on the Stand campus (Maughan Library)

These posts will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 2 years from start date.

Key responsibilities

Collaborate with other grade 6 colleagues in Libraries & Collections to prioritise, plan and share accountability for delivering on our aims
Promote continuous improvement, service innovation and the delivery of results
Manage people or a team, through project or line management, in order to deliver high quality services
Support the implementation and use of Business Intelligence to steer operational service planning and decision making
Liaise and engage with appropriate stakeholders to ensure efficient service delivery
Partner with specific faculties to understand how our collections are used to support teaching aims and outcomes and feed this knowledge into our collection development activities and our related collections services
Design and deliver engagement activities with faculty focused on the collections used in teaching; undertake initiatives with learners to engage them with our collections and make them cocreators in the collection development process
Liaise with academics during the curriculum design stage to advise on best use of our collections, promoting out existing collections and advocating for diversity of content in reading lists.
Work closely with colleagues across Libraries & Collections to support coordinated communications to faculties, trusts and library colleagues
Work with the Head of Department and the Acquisitions Librarian to review and develop policies and procedures to ensure services remain relevant and deliver on strategic aims, liaising with key stakeholders as appropriate.
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post._

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in academic liaison, collections, partnership management or a higher education context. Relevant educational experiences should include being educated to first degree level and/or professionally accredited library/information qualification
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present information to a range of different audiences
Experience of supervising or managing projects and/or service improvements
Experience of managing and motivating staff for high performance
Experience of implementing change and supporting others through the process, balancing daytoday operational activities with developing the service
Ability to work independently in a fastchanging environm