Description

Closing Date: 06-Jan-2025

In this role, you will lead in managing the collections and services for born-digital maps and mappable data created from our collections. You will take a leading role in developing the national collection of contemporary digital maps, and in the continuing development of tools, methods and policies to ensure that these collections are used for research now and available for research and consultation by future generations.
This post is located within the Contemporary British Collections team, and you will work closely with a wide variety of collections, including the UK Web Archive, News, Emerging Formats (e.g. publications delivered as apps), as well as our world-class collections of Maps, Plans and Topographical Views. Innovation is a significant element of this role, and you will work with our Digital Scholarship team, map curators in other Legal Deposit Libraries, and research teams and cultural organisations in the UK and internationally to support new services and research using our data.
You will have a sound knowledge of contemporary cartography, in particular as related to digital maps. Experience of use of digital maps and/or mappable data at first degree level is required. You should have strong skills and experience in managing change, influencing and persuading and in motivating teams across disciplines and organisational structures. Contemporary British Collections represents the diverse range of experience and culture in the UK, and we welcome applications from candidates that help us broaden our own experience within the team.
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. This role qualifies for a digital allowance.

Skills Required

Curation
Change Management
Mapping

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