Head of Library Operations

2 days ago


Greenwich, United Kingdom University of Greenwich Full time

Our Information and Library Services Directorate delivers award winning IT services, providing library, academic, digital skills and learning enhancement support to students across the university. Our digital mission is to ensure everyone in our community is equipped to effectively use digital services, data and technology with confidence, efficiency and creativity in their learning, teaching, research and organisational support.

We are seeking an outstanding candidate to lead the operational aspects of our library services, working as part of a Leadership Group across the Information and Library Services Directorate.

The successful candidate will lead on the use of library space at our Greenwich and Avery Hill campuses, developing the study environments and striving for the highest standards of service to our users. 

They will also lead on strategic library collection development for the university, including the university archive. This will include strategies for managing our remaining print collections alongside supporting the continuing growth of digital resources, ensuring we have the right systems to make items discoverable and easily available whenever and where our communities need them. 

They will work closely with the other Heads of service in Libraries and Academic Enhancement, particularly the Head of Medway Shared Library and IT Services to ensure consistency with services at Medway and through our collaborative Unified Library Management System.

To find out more about our team, visit our Digital Recruitment webpage.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Dave Puplett on d.r.puplett@greenwich.ac.uk

Should you have any queries please contact the People Directorate Team on peopleoperationsils@greenwich.ac.uk

We operate a hybrid working policy, as set out in the University’s Working Principles and Guidelines.

We are looking for people who can help us achieve our Strategic Plan, through the values we expect for our whole university community, of being Inclusive, Collaborative and Impactful.

Academic Career Pathways

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.

Further details:
Job Description & Person Specification

£56,021 to £64,914 plus £5269 London weighting per annum



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