Evening & Weekend Supervisor

About the role

The Bodleian Humanities Library is seeking an enthusiastic Evening & Weekend Supervisor to join the Reader Services team in this newly opened library, supporting excellent service delivery across evenings and weekends. The Bodleian Humanities Library supports research, teaching and learning across a wide range of disciplines and provides access to lending collections, offsite material and extensive electronic resources.

You will supervise and oversee the work of evening and weekend library assistants, acting as the senior member of staff onsite. You will ensure high service standards, provide training, respond to reader enquiries and handle the practical operation of the library during your shifts. You will also carry out circulation tasks, support stock management projects and ensure effective communication with daytime colleagues.

This is a permanent part-time post, working an average of 13 hours per week. The anticipated working pattern is: Saturday 08:50–17:10 (including a 40-minute unpaid break), Sunday 17:00–21:15, and one Tuesday 17:00–21:15 every four weeks.

This role involves lifting, carrying and transporting books safely.

About You

You will have previous experience of Reader Services work in an academic library, including use of library management systems, online catalogues and e-resources.

You will be an experienced and customer-focused library professional with a good general level of education to A-Level or equivalent.

You will be an effective communicator with excellent spoken English and strong IT skills, confident working both independently and as part of a team.

You will also have experience training others in a customer-services setting and be able to carry out manual handling tasks safely.

What We Offer

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

• An excellent contributory pension scheme
• 38 days of annual leave
• A comprehensive range of childcare services
• Family leave schemes
• Cycle loan scheme
• Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans

More information is available at https://hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/staff-benefits

Diversity

Our staff and students come from all over the world, and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diverse groups and champions, as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example, shared parental leave.

How to apply

You will be required to upload your CV and a supporting evidence form using the attached template as part of your online application. The supporting evidence form lists each of the essential and desirable selection criteria, as listed in the job description – please explain how you meet each one. CVs alone will not be considered.

The Chair of this recruitment panel will be Helen Scott, English Subject Librarian and Deputy Librarian, Humanities Library, who can be contacted with enquiries relating to the role (helen.scott@bodleian.ox.ac.uk). General queries about the recruitment and application process should be directed to the Recruitment team within our Human Resources department (recruitment@glam.ox.ac.uk). Please note that during the Christmas holiday period, email inboxes are unlikely to be monitored.

Only applications received online by 12.00 midday (GMT) on Tuesday 6 January 2026 can be considered. Interviews are expected to take place on Tuesday 20 January 2026.

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