Digitisation Manager, Sound and Vision, The British Library

Location: St Pancras

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: A

Salary: £42,179 per annum

About the role

We are looking for a Digitisation Manager to manage our sound and audiovisual digitisation team, helping to preserve one of the world's greatest sound archives.

The British Library is home to an extraordinary collection of sound and moving images: recordings of speech, music, wildlife and the environment, from the 1880s to the present day. Most of these recordings are held on physical media. As these items physically degrade and as the means of playing them disappear from production, the recordings on them must be preserved. Today, that means digitisation: creating and storing stable, digital files.

Working closely with staff across technical, curatorial and metadata teams, you will oversee all digitisation work to agreed standards and to defined targets, leading and motivating the team and monitoring and resolving day-to-day and more strategic issues.

You will ensure that targets are met, that quality standards are maintained and make decisions about tools and processes used.

You will be comfortable in communicating complex ideas, in influencing and persuading others and in reporting to senior management. The role will involve liaising with peer institutions internationally and sharing knowledge at a variety of levels.

The successful applicant will have excellent technical knowledge of a wide range of historical and current audio formats, excellent IT skills, a thorough knowledge of accepted archival principles as they apply to sound and AV and a good awareness of the literature pertaining to AV archiving and excellent IT skills.

A relevant degree or relevant professional experience is required.

This is a full-time, permanent position, working in our studios at St Pancras.

The post holder will be expected to work a minimum of three days in the office per week, to support a team who are on site five days a week.