Library Digital Advisor

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: CSM - King's Cross, London UK
Salary: £32,624 to £39,342 per annum, pro rata
Contract: Part time
Hours: Part time

Job description

The opportunity

Join our friendly team as a 0.8 FTE Library Digital Advisor at the University of the Arts London (UAL). In this role, you will provide high quality customer-focused digital library services, supporting a vibrant community of learners, educators, and researchers.

Your responsibilities will include:

– Assisting users both in person and online with their queries
– Managing library resources and equipment, offering first-line technical support, and guiding users in digital literacy.
– Designing and delivering workshops, inductions, and creating digital learning materials.
– Collaborating with technical teams to maintain and enhance digital library resources.
– Contributing to library projects, representing the department in meetings, and sharing best practices.

The term-time working pattern is: Monday to Wednesday, 08:30 to 16:30 pm and Thursdays 12:00 to 20:00 pm

During vacation, hours will generally be 09:00 to17:00 pm or 10:15 to 18:15 pm Monday to Thursday. 

UAL Library Services operates a hybrid working pattern, with some working from home where operational needs allow. 

About you

We are seeking a candidate with a degree-level qualification and/or relevant digital skills, with experience in a library or digital education setting.

Essential skills include:

– Excellent written and oral communication, with an ability to make users feel welcome.
– Some knowledge of information management.
– An interest in digital technologies, especially in art and design contexts.

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 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth 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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