Digitisation Project Manager (Operational Efficiency)

Job description

Location: St Pancras / Boston Spa

Hours: Permanent - Full time

Grade: A

Salary: £37,538/£40,950

Seize an exciting to join the British Library's dynamic Business Development and Licensing Team as a Digitisation Project Manager. Be part of a collaborative effort to digitise and provide access to our extensive collections for research, inspiration and enjoyment. Working closely with commercial partners, British Library curatorial and conservation experts and a number of digitisation teams, you will play a key role in maximising project benefits, meeting annual royalty targets, and fostering valuable partnerships.

This role, for an experienced and driven project manager, will lead on the relationships with stakeholders (commercial partners, digitisation studio colleagues and British Library teams), and ensure that the departments activities align with and support the Library's commercial strategy and the overarching Knowledge Matters aims. With meticulous attention to detail, and strong business and customer focus, you will ensure that the department achieves its goals, ensuring that the studios deliver contractually agreed outputs to meet commercial partner and British Library quality targets, throughput and timescales.

You will also demonstrate excellent leadership, influencing and communication skills, given the diverse range of both internal and external partners, as well as an innovative and proactive approach to exploiting opportunities, maximising efficient workflows, and promoting best practice.

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. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year, including manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. What matters to us is preserving the national memory and enabling knowledge creation both now and in the future, by anyone, anywhere.

In addition to a competitive salary, the British Library offers a comprehensive benefits package, highlighted by our excellent pension scheme - membership of the Alpha Pension Scheme includes a minimum Library contribution of 26.6% (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 every 3 months. This is in addition to the generous 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

At the British Library, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment that reflects the rich tapestry of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.

Closing date: 06 May 2024

Interview date: w/c 13 May 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