Senior Library Assistant (Research Support)

Location: Strand Campus

Contact details: Chris Fripp (Open Access Manager). christopher [email protected]

About Us

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us. 

We are excited to be recruiting to the role of Senior Library Assistant (Research Support) at a time when Open Research has never been more important. Our Open Research team is responsible for working with King’s researchers in an exciting, complex, and fast-moving area. The team works to support the curation and dissemination of scholarly outputs – support for open access publishing, REF, research data management, and copyright; alongside the provision of an interlending service and wide range of subscription-based library resources.

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

Open Research 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 scholarly outputs to a wide audience.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work within open research, who wish to utilise their skills in understanding, organising, and explaining complex information. This is an opportunity to grow 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.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the higher education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

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

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.

All Libraries & Collections staff are encouraged to take responsibility for their own performance and development, through agreeing clear objectives, maintaining professional awareness, participating in professional networks, and reflecting on own performance. We expect all colleagues to role-model a positive, proactive, flexible, and committed approach that encourages others.

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