Job Description

Contractual hours

36

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Digital & Technology (IT)

Date posted

27/10/2025

Job reference

R00001056

Location: Boston Spa or St Pancras

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: B

Salary: 31,364 (BSP) or 34,608 (STP) pro rata per annum

About the role

The British Library has a new and exciting opportunity for a records management professional to join its Corporate Information Management Unit, in a full-time and permanent post, to help develop its digital records management programme. Working as part of a small team, you'll get involved with all aspects of digital records management from providing day-to-day administrative support to internal users, to developing and delivering training packages for staff, to helping shape the future by assisting with the development, configuration and roll-out of Microsoft 365 to support records management. You'll work on retention, information protection, information architecture, classification and metadata, and more.

We're looking for a qualified or experienced records management professional willing to undertake training in Microsoft 365 administration; or someone with relevant Microsoft 365 Certification (or equivalent experience) who is willing to do records management training. Training will be provided as part of the role, depending on experience.

You'll need to be a team player with the excellent communication and customer service skills required to liaise with internal users and stakeholders. You'll need to be able to work independently, taking the initiative and judging when to involve colleagues. You'll need excellent IT skills and be able to trouble-shoot and problem-solve when required.

This role will be a hybrid-working role and you'll need to work a minimum of two days per week in the office. This role can be based at either the Library's Boston Spa, Yorkshire or St Pancras, London sites.

For further information, please refer to 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 in 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 page.

Closing date: 13 November 2025

Interview date: 8 December 2025

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.