Assistant Learning Resources Manager – Digital

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: Hybrid – CSM King’s Cross/Home
Salary: £42,477 to £50,961 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

Are you committed to fostering a student-centred learning environment? Join our friendly Library Services team at Central Saint Martins (CSM), part of University of the Arts London (UAL).

As an Assistant Learning Resources Manager – Digital, you will collaborate closely with the CSM Learning Resources Manager and another Assistant Manager. Your role will be pivotal in managing our busy library and learning zone, ensuring efficient operation of staff, space, and services. You will oversee line management, recruitment, training, and staff development.

You will actively participate in local CSM college committees, contributing to the college's operational success.

You will play a key role in the cross-site Library Digital Group, enhancing our service-wide digital resources; this includes liaison with our IT department and with the college technical team to offer digital skills sessions for students.

Our library, located over three floors in a heritage building overlooking Granary Square near King’s Cross and St. Pancras stations, is a vibrant and popular hub for students and a fantastic location to work in.

Generally, the working pattern is 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday, with occasional extended hours until 18:15 during term time and vacation periods. Termly online weekend team meetings are also required. UAL Library Services adopts a hybrid working approach, balancing home and onsite work.

About you

We seek a candidate with a degree-level qualification and/or relevant digital, information science, or teaching qualifications. Experience in educational or information roles and related disciplines is essential.

You should demonstrate a strong commitment to delivering an imaginative, student-focused service and an understanding of inclusion and diversity in library services. Proven experience in managing and motivating teams with a compassionate and collaborative approach is essential, along with proficiency in creative software and hardware.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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