Graduate Trainee Library Assistant

New College Library, Oxford is seeking a graduate trainee. With strong team-working and interpersonal skills, and a capacity to carry out routine work quickly, methodically, and to a high standard in our busy, reader-focused library, you will join a small, friendly team. You will assist in the day-to-day running of New College Library—whose collections include manuscripts and rare books of international significance—and you will gain experience in a wide range of library duties. You will also participate in visits and events run by the Bodleian Libraries as part of the Bodleian Libraries Graduate Trainee Scheme, which provides the necessary experience for application to a postgraduate course in librarianship/information management. There is the prospect of this position leading thereafter to the part-time (2 days per week), one-year fixed-term role of Special Collections Curatorial Assistant at New College Library, which may be suitable for a post-holder pursuing their postgraduate qualifications.

Further details can be found here - Job Description & Further Particulars - Graduate Trainee Library Assistant, New College Library, Oxford

Closing date: noon on Tuesday 23 April 2024

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 8th May 2024

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree (or be on course to achieve one by summer 2024), good IT skills, and demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail. 

Benefits include:

• Salary equivalent to University Grade 3.5: £24,533 (salary award pending)
• Contributory pension scheme
• 6 weeks annual leave of which 1 week is taken over the Christmas closure period
• Employee assistance program
• Cycle scheme
• Bus/Train pass scheme

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