Assistant Learning Resources Manager

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary: £42,477 to £50,961 per annum (pro rata)
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

We are pleased to advertise this opportunity to work with the friendly Central Saint Martins (CSM) Library & Learning Zone team as Assistant Learning Resources Manager – this vacancy has arisen after the promotion of the previous post-holder.

We are looking for someone with a compassionate and student-centred approach. Under the guidance of the Learning Resources Manager, you will work closely with the Assistant Learning Zone Manager to ensure the effective operational day-to-day management of staff, space, and services of our busy library.  

Located over three floors of a heritage building overlooking Granary Square near Kings Cross and St Pancras stations, this is an exciting location to work in. The library is popular with our students, in this role you will be engaged with how we best support student learning and success by making the best of our spaces and services.  

You will lead and support weekday, evening and weekend teams, meeting regularly to discuss and communicate plans, and to ensure collaborative resolution of operational issues. Line management, recruitment, training and development of staff form an important part of your role.

Collaborating with peers and colleagues at other UAL libraries, you will play an active role in one or more service-wide working groups. You will also sit on CSM committees, contributing to the operational running of the college.  

Generally the working pattern is 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday, with a requirement to work some days until 6.15pm  during term time and vacation, and to attend termly online weekend team meetings.

UAL Library Services operates a hybrid approach to working, with a mixture of working from home and onsite working patterns.

Interviews are scheduled for Tuesday 21 May 2024. 

About you

We are looking for someone with a degree level qualification and relevant work experience. A recognised library qualification or relevant experience in other education or information roles and related disciplines is desirable (e.g. CILIP accreditation, non-academic library or archives experience, NVQ’s or apprenticeship, library or teaching postgraduate cert/dip/MA/MSc). 

You will have an enthusiasm for delivering an imaginative, student-centred service and an awareness of inclusion and diversity work in libraries. You will have demonstrable experience of managing and motivating a team using a compassionate and collaborative approach.  

Before completing an application form, download and read the job description and person specification for the role for more information. 

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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