Senior Information Assistant: Digitisation and Publications

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

Library Services aims to support learning, teaching and research activities of the University through the provision of high quality, responsive services. The Library Service has attained Customer Service Excellence accreditation.

The role sits within Content and Discovery Services which consists of six sub-teams which are focused on the management of content and resources.

Responsibilities

The purpose of the Senior Information Assistant is to assist with the management of digitisations via Reading Lists Online, overseeing the creation of accessible and copyright-compliant copies. You will be administering electronic thesis submissions on Research Manager and liaising with the Doctoral Office and research students. You will upload thesis files to City Research Online as well as curate metadata for other deposited outputs. Helpdesk, chat and roving responsibilities are expected of this role on a weekly rota basis.

Person Specification

Educated to A level or equivalent, you will have experience of working in an academic library or similar. The postholder will be comfortable using a range of information technologies. Strong customer service skills are essential to delivering an excellent student experience when responding to enquiries. You must be a team player but also possess the ability to work independently once tasks have been assigned.

Additional Information

City, St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date for applications: 1st October 2024 at 11:59pm.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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