Project Support Officer, British Library

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

Other essential requirements are outlined in the job description.

We encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented, these include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disable people and LGBTQI+ people.

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.