Interim Head, Printed Heritage Collections - St Pancras, United Kingdom - British Library

British Library

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St Pancras, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:

St Pancras

Hours:

Fixed Term - Full ti

me for 6 months

Grade:
SB4

Salary:
£48,750

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the team looking after one of the world's major collection of printed heritage materials, on an interim basis.

This role is based within Collections & Curation, and will lead the curatorial team responsible for the management, development and promotion of Printed Heritage Collections, comprising antiquarian books, 20th-century British and Irish books, prints and drawings, bookbindings, and other related materials.

As a member of the Western Heritage Collections senior management team, you will contribute to the management of the department, as well as managing and leading the Printed Heritage section of around 15 colleagues.

You will ensure a high level of collection management and stewardship of the collection.

You will lead on internal and external partnerships, as well as overseeing a diverse range of projects, including the allocation of staff and other resources, whilst reconciling conflicting interests and priorities.

You will lead Printed Heritage staff in developing innovative ways of engaging a wide and diverse public nationally and internationally with enjoyable and challenging cultural experiences based on the collection and new research insights.

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 26.6% (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: 26 November 2023

Interview date:
TBC

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

PLEASE NOTE THE BELOW FOR YOUR APPLICATION:
Industry

Education, Teaching

Job Sector

Other

Job Position

Other

Address

St Pancras, London, UK

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