Metadata and Discovery Coordinator

4 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

**Metadata and Discovery Coordinator**:
**Salary: Grade 5 (£24,285 - £27,929 p.a. depending upon experience)**

**Interviews taking place week commencing 30th January.**

**2 x 1.0 FTE vacancies**

This role will be undertaken in a hybrid manner, with some work based on the university campus. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

**Do you have excellent accuracy and attention to detail? Are you confident working with resources and data in a range of formats? Are you an innovative team player, able to make a positive contribution to metadata and discovery management in this large HE library?**

The University of Leeds is one of the top 135 universities in the world. We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities. Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe.

The Metadata and Discovery Team catalogues and ensures the discoverability of a wide range of material for the Library including print monographs, e-resources, subscribed content, research outputs and Special Collections material. Setting and managing access arrangements for e-resources is also the responsibility of the team. The team are involved in projects relating to internal and external initiatives ranging from cooperative cataloguing to developments in library linked data. This role offers the opportunity for involvement in all aspects of the team’s work, with day to day responsibility for the cataloguing and classification of material, checking metadata quality, ensuring accuracy across a range of databases, managing access to e-resources and responding to enquiries.

You’ll have experience of MARC21, RDA and AACR2, an understanding of classification principles and be familiar with working with electronic resources. You’ll need strong interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively with the wider team, other Library colleagues, library customers and external bodies, including suppliers. You’ll have a forward-thinking approach and be open to new experiences and challenges in metadata and discovery management.

**What we offer in return**
- 26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) - That’s 42 days a year
- Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
- Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
- Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
- Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more

**To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact**:
Kim Taylor, Metadata & Discovery Manager



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