Assistant Web Archivist

Salary: £25,146 (BSP) / £28,119 (STP) per annum

Grade: C

Location: Boston Spa / St Pancras, UK

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 26th March 2025

About the role

This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of the UK’s national Web Archive, ensuring the preservation of the UK’s web heritage for future generations.

As a key member of the team, your primary responsibilities will include maintaining organisational systems for the efficient management of archived web content and associated records. You will play a vital role in ensuring that relevant content is archived, responding to enquiries, and securing permissions for off-site access to archived materials. Working closely with web archiving colleagues, you will also support curatorial tasks, such as quality assurance, metadata management, and the ongoing development of web archiving systems and processes.

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, both written and verbal, along with experience in customer or user engagement. Excellent administrative and organisational abilities are essential, including the capacity to manage competing priorities effectively. Proficiency in using information systems and software tools is also required.

Job Purpose:

• To work with web content owners to obtain permissions for off-site access to archived web material.
• To help ensure in-scope content is archived for non-print Legal Deposit.
• To respond to enquiries and assist in the development of web archiving tools.
• To assist the Web Archivist and Legal Deposit Libraries curators with curatorial tasks.

Please view and download the full Job Profile below.

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone.  Our shelves hold over 170 million items – a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

What we can offer you

• A competitive salary.
• A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).
• Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.
• 25 days holiday.
• Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits page.

Closing date: 26 March 2025

Interview date: 15/16 April 2025

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.