Collection and Discovery Manager

What makes Goldsmiths unique?

Goldsmiths is a world-renowned university that has a reputation for rigorous and innovative academic work; creativity has long been our hallmark. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive.

About the department

Goldsmiths Library is at the heart of our New Cross campus and plays a central role in our distinctive learning and research environment. Open 24/7, the Library provides access to around 259,000 print items and over 38,000 ebooks and welcomes around 187,000 visitors each year.

Through our collections, spaces, literacies and skills development and specialist expertise, we support students, researchers and the public to explore, create and think critically. Our approach reflects Goldsmiths’ wider commitment to creativity, collaboration, social justice and positive change, with our open and radically inclusive Library rooted in critical library practice and anti-racism.

Our Special Collections and Archives bring these distinctive Goldsmiths strengths together, with collections that are open to all and reflect Goldsmiths’ influential position in the creative and performing arts, with collections including the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery, the Daphne Oram Collection and the Women’s Art Library.

Find out more on the Goldsmiths Library website: https://www.gold.ac.uk/library/

Read the Library Framework, our strategic roadmap: https://www.gold.ac.uk/library/framework-2025/

About the role

The Collections and Discovery Manager provides operational management and oversight across the content management lifecycle for all types of resources and learning materials.

The role is based in our Systems and Content team and is responsible for managing staff, budgets, supplier relationships and operational processes that ensure Goldsmith’s students, researchers and staff can efficiently find, access and use the resources they need to support teaching and learning and research.

The Systems and Content team is key to student and academic experience at Goldsmiths, delivering an efficient, effective service in our provision of appropriate resources available at the customer's point of need.

About the candidate

You’ll be an experienced and adaptable professional with strong knowledge of collections, discovery and content lifecycle management. You’ll bring experience of managing budgets, suppliers, contracts and staff, alongside excellent communication and relationship-building skills. You’ll be proactive, collaborative and user-focused, with a commitment to inclusive, accessible and evidence-informed library services.

Benefits

We have generous benefits – an agile working environment, 28 days’ annual leave plus six paid closure days (four at Christmas and two at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives such as staff choir, running club, staff networks and creative writing classes.

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At Goldsmiths, University of London, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion shape how we lead, learn, and work. We are committed to building an inclusive and respectful environment, removing barriers and addressing inequalities so that everyone in our community can belong and thrive.

All applicants must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing work with us.

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