Project Support Officer

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed Term until 30/06/2026 – Full time
Grade: D
Salary: £24,617 per annum

The British Library is looking for two Project Support Officers to join the Conservation for Digitisation Team. In this role, you will enable digitisation of collection items and tracts as part of various digitisation projects to make content available online. You will support digitisation conservators and liaise with members of different projects, internal and commercial partners, such as Adam Matthew Digital and Gale Cengage, to ensure the provision of access to the collections.

Successful candidates will:

1. Retrieve, deliver and replace collection items for the digitisation conservator, and other users as needed.
2. Create batches of items, record information and monitor workflow.
3. Support the digitisation conservator in assessing material to enable conservation and preservation checks and digitisation.
4. Ensure items retrieved from storage and assessed, or sent to Digitisation studio/Collection Care etc. are recorded appropriately for security and tracking purposes.
5. Measure and box items requiring preservation.
6. Support project workflows.

Other essential requirements are outlined in the job description.

We encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented, including people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled 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 depending 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. This role qualifies for a digital allowance.

Closing date: 24 November 2024
Interview date: 5 & 6 December 2024

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.