Assistant Web Archivist, The British Library

About the role

As a key member of the team, your primary responsibilities will include maintaining organisational systems for the efficient management of archived web content and associated records. You will play a vital role in ensuring that relevant content is archived, responding to enquiries, and securing permissions for off-site access to archived materials. Working closely with web archiving colleagues, you will also support curatorial tasks, such as quality assurance, metadata management, and the ongoing development of web archiving systems and processes.

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, both written and verbal, along with experience in customer or user engagement. Excellent administrative and organisational abilities are essential, including the capacity to manage competing priorities effectively. Proficiency in using information systems and software tools is also required.

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you

• A competitive salary.
• A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).
• Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.
• 25 days holiday.
• Full details of employee benefits can be found on our https://www.bl.uk/careers/ - Careers: Benefits

Closing date: 26 March 2025

Interview date: 15/16 April 2025

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.