Research Services Manager Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
EU08: £43,414.00 - £51,805.00 Per Annum.
Information Services / Library & University Collections / Heritage Collections (Access & Engagement).
Open-Ended Contract; Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.
We are looking for an experienced and proactive individual to drive the delivery and expansion of our frontline services, and grow public and academic engagement with heritage collections. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a committed team providing user and public access across multiple, diverse physical sites (from reading rooms to St Cecilia’s Hall Museum), digitally and online. The successful candidate will have a track record of meeting and anticipating the needs of a wide audience demographic for the information or cultural sector.
The Opportunity:
This is a key role in the successful delivery and strategic development of all University of Edinburgh Heritage Collections services from enquiries and access to collections, to public museums and galleries and image requests and licencing. As line manager of the Research Services team, the post holder leads a professional and para-professional team across library, archives, museums and engagement disciplines, ensuring the provision of high quality services to diverse audiences in an academic environment. The post holder is a member of the Heritage Collections Senior Management Team, and has responsibilities for metrics and data gathering for reporting out, and for managing web content.
Your skills and attributes for success:
Current professional knowledge of librarianship, archives, museums or information management
- Demonstrable customer service management experience in managing face to face and online services
- Staff management, budget management and change management experience
- Experience of leading or collaborating on assigned projects, in particular digital initiatives
- Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Inter views will be held Week Commencing 24 th April 2023.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
About us:
The Library helps people to grow their knowledge and create new connections through open services, collections and environments, sparking ideas that change the world. Library & University Collections teams (approximately 200 staff) provide leadership and oversight for the University's library and museum collections and services, and lead the University's transition to Open Scholarship. Collections comprise over 2 million print volumes, 2 million e-books, 200,000 e-journals and 100 kilometres of Heritage Collections which include rare books, archives, artworks and musical instruments. Library & University Collections deliver highly-regarded services to support teaching, learning and research across the University and wider communities. Services and access to collections are provided online and onsite through the Main Library, site libraries, the Centre for Research Collections, award-winning makerspace services and St Cecilia’s Hall Concert Room & Music Museum.
