Vacancy Details

Description

                        

Full Time, Permanent

 

The Library is seeking to recruit a Conservator to join the growing Collection Care North team.  In this role you will support the overall collection care programme of work on collections at Boston Spa, which may include:

• Supporting digitisation projects, preparing collection items for digitisation
• Conservation assessment and treatment of the collection
• Pre-acquisition, quarantine and environmental monitoring / management activities
• Participating in delivering engagement and training opportunities in conservation to colleagues

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate:

• Recent and extensive practical experience in conservation and preservation/preventive conservation.
• Good accuracy, organisation and problem solving skills
• Proficiency in processes of examination, assessment, documentation and preventive and interventive conservation.
• A thorough understanding of the ethics of conservation and of the materials science relating to conservation including the relationship between materials and their environment.
• Ability to work constructively within a team displaying A broad knowledge of available conservation treatments and preventive conservation issues across a range of disciplines, with specialist skills and knowledge within the field of paper and/or book conservation.
• support and flexibility
• Ability to work on own initiative in the absence of the line manager and to handle a varied work load with key performance targets

Work within both the collection storage areas and Collection Care North may be physically demanding requiring manual handling and working across the site in different storage areas. Full training will be given in all aspects of collection care, especially handling of material; health and safety and manual handling training; bibliographic searching and automated systems.

 

In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits.  Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes 20.9%. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

 

More about the British Library

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future. At the moment we have well over 150 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future.

  

Closing date: 8 July 2018

Interview date: 17 and 18 July 2018

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident employer, and make a commitment to recruit and support disabled people. We guarantee an interview for disabled candidates who meet the minimum (essential) requirements for a vacancy.

In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions: