Job Description

Contractual hours

36

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Marketing & Communications

Date posted

17/09/2025

Job reference

R00000883

Location: St Pancras

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: A

Salary: 42,179 per annum

About the role

Are you a great content strategist? Can you write a tight creative brief? Can you spot a story opportunity AND turn it into compelling content?

We're looking for an enthusiastic and inspiring Brand Content Manager to join our buzzing Digital Engagement team (managing the Library's web content, social and email channels).

In this role you'll use your extensive experience of collaborating with senior stakeholders to capture the fascinating stories playing out every day behind the scenes and in our free and welcoming public spaces as we deliver our mission.

You'll be adept at interpretation of user data to inform new content briefs, as well as to report on the performance of published content. You'll make content yourself and brief and manage freelancers or production companies to create content to a brief that aligns with a new brand content strategy that you will lead development of.

You will be an excellent communicator adept at juggling multiple projects, keeping them on track to meet deadlines, working independently or as part of a team and managing cross-organisational stakeholder groups.

You will also identify new content and channel opportunities to experiment with different ways we can engage different audiences.



As the UK's national library we believe the more we know the more we make possible. We have big ambitions to reach more people than ever with the content this role will create, bringing the brand to life online and onsite and help fulfill our mission to unlock ideas and imagination.

For more information, please read the Job Profile.

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you

A competitive salary. A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade). Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period. 25 days holiday. Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits

Closing date: 11 October 2025

Proposed interview dates: TBC

If you have any questions, please contact BL-recruitment@bl.uk

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.