Your career at University of Leeds Libraries

We are recruiting for the following role(s):

Research Metrics Analyst

Salary: £39,105 - £46,485
Post type: Full time
Closing date: Sunday 12 January 2025

Are you experienced in supporting world class researchers with research analytics? Do you have in-depth knowledge of how Library services support the Higher Education research environment? Can you demonstrate a commitment to delivering exceptional customer service?

Working as part of the Libraries Research Services team, you will use your expertise to provide support to researchers through in-depth insight and guidance.

You’ll respond to researcher enquiries, offering one-to-one or group support. You’ll provide data and analytical reports to inform understanding and further support researcher skills development by designing and delivering workshops and events. You’ll actively engage and collaborate with colleagues to provide a holistic approach to research support.

You’ll be a professional and proactive individual with experience in research analytics and responsible metrics support. You’ll have in-depth familiarity with bibliometric data gathering, analysis and presentation. You’ll be experienced in designing and delivering relevant teaching with strong presentation skills.

Communications Assistant

Salary: £27344 - £31387
Post type: Full time
Closing date: Monday 20 January 2025

Are you enthusiastic with a strong customer service ethos? Can you help create and optimise our content to be more effective in reaching our audiences? Can you be our first point of contact to manage our online communities and colleague enquiries?

Working as part of the Libraries Communications Team, you will promote the wide range of services and facilities of the Libraries.

You’ll help to create and deliver communication plans to engage staff and student audiences. You'll work with colleagues to develop and implement strategic content to support the University and our ambitious Libraries’ vision. You’ll gather and interpret analytics to evaluate the impact of comms activity. You’ll also manage the delivery of the Libraries’ contribution to events such as open days.

You’ll be a highly motivated individual with digital communication and design skills, experienced in creating graphic and video content across a range of channels, including social media such as Instagram. You’ll be well organised and have strong communication skills, able to build and manage effective relationships with colleagues.

Conservation & Collections Care Manager

Salary: £39,105 - £46,485 
Post type: Full time
Closing date: Friday 31 January 2025
Interview date: w/c Monday 24 February 2025

Do you have experience in handling conservation and collections with care and passion? Can you enthusiastically lead the Collections Care team? Are you an effective project manager with excellent communication and organisation skills?

This is an opportunity to manage the Cultural Collections, overseeing the care of hundreds of thousands of rare objects. Reporting to the Senior Curator, you will manage the Collections Care team who are integral to teaching, learning and research in our Research Centre in the Brotherton Library. You’ll also work with the Cultural Collections & Galleries team to promote best practice for managing and accessing collections. This role will support wider Library and University strategic and cultural activities.

You’ll have significant practical experience of working in a collections-care focussed role with an excellent awareness of collections management processes. You’ll also be an effective project and people manager with excellent interpersonal skills. You’ll offer guidance and training on critical incident prevention, response and recovery. You’ll manage the materials budgets and be responsible for developing and maintaining the in-house conservation programme. You’ll also be part of the Critical Incident Planning Group for the wider University of Leeds Libraries.

Recruitment ethos

We are committed to providing a culture of inclusion, openness, respect and equality of opportunity that attracts, supports, and retains the best students and staff from all backgrounds and from across the world.

Whatever role we recruit for we are always striving to increase the diversity of our community, which each individual helps enrich and cultivate. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, Black, Asian, people who belong to a minority ethnic community; people who identify as LGBTQ+; and people with disabilities. Candidates will always be selected based on merit and ability.