Head of Digital Services and Innovation

3 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester Metropolitan University Full time

Are you passionate about harnessing the latest technologies and practices to lead the digital development of library services in support of education and research? Do you want to join a successful university with ambitious plans to achieve more?

In our new Digital Strategy Manchester Met embraces the latest technologies and underpins our education and research with digital capability that realises the opportunities of today and positions us to respond to a rapidly evolving digital future.

We will provide a seamless student journey that's mobile first and highly personalised with virtual learning environments that our support curricular and co-curricular offers, using evolving technologies to develop collaborative experiences in physical and digital environments including our new library. Developing technologies for research will extend our open research practices and digitally enabled research capabilities.

Library and Cultural Services is at the heart of these developments. This is an exciting opportunity to take up a brand-new role and join us at a time of transformative change.

As a member of the Leadership Team you will share responsibility for the strategic development and management of Library and Cultural Services. This includes the Library Transformation Programme, an ambitious reimagining of the library and a landmark new building with sector leading digital capability.

Library and Cultural Services people are resourceful and passionate about providing an excellent and evolving service to the University's 36,000 students and 4,000 staff. Innovation, service excellence and an outstanding user experience mean everything to us. We are agile, collaborative, inclusive and bold. Joining us, you'll be welcomed into a dynamic and ambitious team.

This is a position where the right person can make a difference in a vibrant and fulfilling environment.

**In Library and Cultural Services we live by our principles**:
**Our presence in the University**
- Our Library is the perfect fit for Manchester Met. It is specific, relevant and tailored to our University, with a strong sense of place and connection to Manchester and the North West.
- We are trusted, valued and integral to the University, working in partnership with all our stakeholders.

**Our contribution to teaching, learning and research**
- We are embedded in every stage of the student journey and research lifecycle, providing knowledge and expertise to enable student success and research excellence.
- We acquire, curate, interpret and manage content (print, digital, moving images and objects), facilitating engagement by making it visible and usable.
- We are passionate about providing an excellent, proactive and evolving service, always taking a user-centred approach.

**Our spaces**
- Our library is the beating heart of the campus. Our spaces are welcoming and inclusive environments that foster community and belonging. They are places to learn well and live well.
- We develop innovative physical and digital spaces and robust infrastructures to stimulate the creation, discovery and dissemination of knowledge.

**Our **people**
- We are one team with a shared culture and values. Our people are empowered and supported to be their very best in pursuit of our vision. We are agile, collaborative, diverse, inclusive, innovative and bold.

**Our reputation**
- Our Library, Special Collections Museum, North West Film Archive and Manchester Poetry Library are sector-leading with high visibility, profile and impact. We are thought leaders in our professional communities.

If you combine expertise in developing innovative digital library services and using the latest technologies to drive service improvement with outstanding leadership skills we would love to hear from you.
- Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion._

**To apply**:
Manchester Met is a community that is creative, confident, passionate and proud. If you would like to join us and share our ambition, we would love to hear from you.

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