Senior Library Assistant (Research Support)

About us:

Libraries & Collections comprises four departments: Education & Learning, Research & Impact, Service Design & Delivery, along with Business Operations. We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, which manages the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond.

About the role:

The role is based in the Open Research team, which is an innovative and growing area of service provision. Senior Library Assistants within the Research Support wing of the team provide support to King’s researchers in curating and disseminating their research outputs to a wide audience.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work within open research, and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in understanding, organising, and explaining complex information. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in navigating the scholarly publishing landscape and helping to educate King’s research community about our services - supporting them with achieving impacts with their research findings.
The main focus of the role will be to work with our research repository, administering the deposit of outputs, and training King’s researchers to ensure their research outputs and data management plans are compliant with funder policies. This role would particularly suit those who enjoy working methodically with good attention to detail.

All grade 4 staff are assigned a placement brief within a particular team but may be moved across to a different placement brief elsewhere within Libraries & Collections in order to support service needs or your development.

You will be required to participate in frontline services as required, including contributing towards a rota for evening and weekend working.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

Essential criteria

• Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in a Library, Publisher, or University. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present information to a range of different audiences
• Ability to work to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience in positively and proactively dealing with routine problems
• Experience of working in a customer-oriented environment and delivery high quality services
• Ability to work effectively and proactively with own team, other teams and with our stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure and meet challenging deadlines
• Commitment to equity, equality, diversity and inclusivity in your own learning and ways of working
• Experience of working with a database (e.g., financial, academic, library) or a repository/CRIS systems
• Awareness of open research matters – such as: the research life cycle, research funding, open access publishing, repositories, issues related to the management, curation, and preservation of digital data.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of copyright compliance or licensing
• Knowledge of repository systems or library management systems or working with scholarly metadata

Further information

Please submit a supporting statement when applying for this vacancy, clearly setting out how you meet the essential criteria, as this is how we shortlist applications

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.

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