Job Description

Contractual hours

36

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Customer Services

Date posted

09/06/2025

Job reference

R00000962

Location: St Pancras

Contract: Fixed term for 16 months

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade: D

Salary: 25,928 per annum

About the role

The British Library, in Partnership with the Qatar National Library is digitising and publishing collection items related to Qatar and the region. This Partnership brings to life rare and unique items from our collections, making them accessible for audiences worldwide.
We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Library Collections Assistant (Qatar). In this role, you will play a pivotal part in ensuring excellent access to and support for the collections within our Qatar storage location. You will also be responsible for efficiently managing and updating data on our workflow management platform, contributing to the smooth operation of our services, working alongside a Library Collection Assistant and the Digital Workflow Team.
Your responsibilities will include:
Retrieving collection items from long term storage. Ensuring collection items are correctly documented, logged, and tracked within the relevant IT systems. Maintaining accurate records of items in use by the Qatar Programme on the Workflow Management platform. Conducting regular audits of Programme Storage areas and address discrepancies. Resolving unsatisfied requests and manage queries using both manual and automated systems. Updating finding aids and provide timely feedback to improve service delivery and team performance.
You will play a key role in supporting the Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme, collaborating closely with teams across cataloguing, imaging, rights clearance, and translation to ensure the smooth processing and delivery of digitised materials.

If you're eager to make a meaningful impact by supporting the delivery and accessibility of information to communities worldwide, we'd love to hear from you.
For more 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 - 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: 29 June 2025

Interview date: 10 July 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.