Library Services - Greenwich Library

Location: Greenwich Campus
Salary: £27,924 to £33,309 plus £4872 London weighting per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 23 May 2022
Interview Date: See advert
Reference: 3153-E

A fantastic opportunity to join a Library Services team delivering a first-rate service to Library users and supporting the University of Greenwich to deliver education without boundaries.

Greenwich has three exceptional libraries at our three campuses, at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich (a World Heritage Site), Avery Hill in South East London, and at Chatham Maritime in the Medway towns. This post will be based in the stunning award-winning Stockwell Street Library at Greenwich.

We share collections infrastructure with the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University at our Medway campus, providing an opportunity to collaborate with our partners.

This post will facilitate the smooth running of library acquisitions. You will co-ordinate acquisitions processes for the entire lifecycle of library materials (including books, journals and other resources, in all formats), from ordering, to payment of invoices, through to online activation.

This is an exciting time to be joining the Collections team; we are currently developing a new reading list system which will be central to our future purchasing strategies. You will be expected to develop new acquisitions procedures and workflows in line with the new reading list system. Ensuring that our acquisition processes provide timely and seamless access to information resources, will be a key part of the role.

You will have experience of working in a library environment, have a high level of numeracy and attention to detail, be enthusiastic about working with people and collections, and have a flexible approach to your work with a willingness to learn new tools and to develop new skills.

The post will be based at the outstanding World Heritage Site of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. This is permanent position, and the role attracts London Weighting and salary related local government pension. Further details of the fantastic benefits and what we offer can be found here: Our benefits - what we offer | Jobs and careers | University of Greenwich 

Please contact Nadine Edwards, Collections Manager (n.c.edwards@greenwich.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

Should you have any queries please contact the HR Recruitment Team on HR-Recruitment@gre.ac.uk 

Interviews will be held week commencing 13th June 2022.

We are looking for people who can help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research, through our values.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

The university welcomes people from diverse and underrepresented communities who can help the university to achieve its mission.

We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff, and removing barriers to improve inclusion.

We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form.

We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.