Content Manager: Discovering Historical Sources, The British Library

Location: St Pancras
Contract: Fixed Term for 12 months (Maternity Cover)
Hours: Full time (36 hours)
Grade: B
Salary: £35,993 per annum

About the role
The British Library's Learning team is seeking a Content Manager for its forthcoming online resource, Discovering Historical Sources. The Library's Digital Learning programme supports learners of all ages by facilitating in-depth engagement with primary source material, articles, films, live-streamed events and teaching resources.

Highly organised and with excellent editorial and communication skills, you will have prior experience of managing the development of accessible, content-rich online learning resources for schools. With a degree in history or a related humanities subject, you will work in a small project team to contribute to a new online learning resource, Discovering Historical Sources. This project uses the Library's unique collections to support and enrich the teaching of history in secondary schools and beyond. The current phase of work focuses on migration and empire histories.

You will manage the work of a Content Developer and collaborate with curatorial teams, learning colleagues and external contributors to produce interpretation that is authoritative, engaging and accessible. Equipped with up-to-date knowledge of digital learning, the curriculum and of history teaching in schools, you will ensure that the needs of target learning audiences remain core to the project and will support work to promote the resource to a newly-built network of engaged history teachers.

Following a major cyber-attack in 2023, the British Library's web estate was rendered temporarily inaccessible. Currently only a small selection of our digital resources is available, via the Padlet platform: (Please visit the British Library's vacancy page to view these links)

Please read the job profile for further information.