Description

Closing Date: 15-Sep-2024

The British Library is seeking to recruit a Content Manager to join the Music Collections Team at St Pancras. This is an exciting opportunity to manage a project to deliver a new online resource, Discovering Music: Classical and Romantic. The resource will draw on the Library’s unique collections to support and enrich the study of music, tailored for students, lifelong learners and music lovers more generally. The ambition for this project is to create a rich and diverse resource that examines a broad range of music from the period 1750 to 1914. The coverage will embrace music in many genres and explore music in relation to wider social, economic and political contexts.
Leading a small team of Content Developers, the post holder will be responsible for managing the production of new content, including overseeing the digitisation, interpretation, and presentation of collection material, commissioning and editing content from external contributors, and liaising closely with the target audience to ensure that the resource meets their needs. In addition, the post holder will work with the wider Music Collections team to promote our newly-created music resources.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills, in particular editorial and web-authoring skills, and evidence of writing and publishing to deadline. Experience of commissioning and managing writers and contributors is an essential requirement for this role, as is a sound understanding of music research, the music curriculum, and current trends in music teaching. To be successful in this role, you will need excellent organisational skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines.
Other requirements are outlined in the job description.
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 28.97% (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.