Research Events Producer

Job description

Location: St Pancras

Hours: Fixed Term: 18 months - Part time: 21.6 hours

Grade: B

Salary: £33,600 pro rata

This role will work across the organisation, and with external partners, to plan, produce, and manage research events from inception to delivery, archiving and evaluation. Events will include our annual Doctoral Open Days, strategic partnership events, and internal workshops for staff and collaborative doctoral students.

This role is vital in improving access to British Library resources for doctoral researchers, and to supporting staff and collaborative doctoral student development in the context of our in-house research activity in our capacity as an Independent Research Organisation (IRO).

This role directly supports the British Library values and Living Knowledge Strategy.

Key areas of responsibility

• Plan and run the British Library's Doctoral Open Days in collaboration with the Research and Postgraduate Development Manager
• Plan and run strategic partnership research events in collaboration with relevant members of the Research Development team
• Plan and run internal research development events for Library staff and collaborative doctoral students
• Manage research events in person or online, according to the format
• Manage rights clearances and permission forms
• Continuously improve the quality of research events
• Market the Doctoral Open Days by liaising with the marketing/comms teams and external partners
• Work with the Research and Postgraduate Development Manager on brand and strategy development of the Doctoral Open Days
• Work with strategic partners to improve their experience of jointly-hosted events
• Evaluate all events and produce evidence of their impact upon request
• Ensure research events are accessible to all relevant audiences
• Oversee the archiving of event content where relevant, working with the Library's Digital Engagement team

Main tasks
• Produce and programme a portfolio of research events
• Deliver audiences via promotion through relevant networks (e.g. Doctoral Training Partnerships for the Doctoral Open Days)
• Manage archived content (webinar recordings, how to guides) post-event as part of wider Library strategy
• Evaluate the each event and the portfolio of research events as a whole
• Manage external and internal relationships related to research events
• Be the first point of contact for research events, including feedback from partners and attendees, writing and deciding on the comms plan
• Demonstrate a willingness to take on a range of tasks and to develop new skills, as appropriate, within the Research Development team to support the delivery of the Library's services as required by line management
• Promote and develop a diverse and representative programme of research events for our audiences

Minimum requirements (essential)

• Educated to degree level
• Experience curating a portfolio of research events
• Experience with event production, management and programming, including in-person events and webinars
• Experience of audience development
• Proven ability to plan and manage own time to deliver objectives
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to deal with internal customers and colleagues effectively
• Proven attention to detail

Desirable:
• Proven interest in, and knowledge of, the research library sector
• Proven interest in, and knowledge of, doctoral training needs

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 for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 26.6% (this may be higher dependant 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 in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 12 May 2024

Interview date: 28 and 29 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