Head of Academic Skills in City of London

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

This is your chance to be part of modern, successful, people-focused library service. Joining us, you’ll get the chance to learn new skills, explore your interests, and get involved in exciting new projects.

Our Library at Goldsmiths is at the heart of academic life and the student experience on campus. We have a strong culture of delivering reliable, high quality services, resources and support to all our schools and visitors and we are passionate about continually innovating, developing and improving our offer.

We are proud of our highly skilled, collaborative staff and of our unique resources, which enable us to support our community in their learning, teaching, scholarship and research.

About the Role

The Head of Academic Skills leads the strategic development and delivery of the Library’s academic skills provision, co-managing the Academic Enrichment and Skills Development Team alongside the Head of Digital Skills and Head of Special Collections and Archives.

The postholder ensures that students, staff and researchers across all disciplines are equipped with academic competencies essential for success. The postholder designs and implements training programmes, resources and support services that advance academic and information literacy university wide.

Working collaboratively with academic Schools and Faculties and professional services team, they align Library academic skills initiatives with teaching and learning and research priorities, while staying responsive to emerging technological developments and sector best practices. A key focus of the role is embedding academic and information skills into the curriculum and supporting decolonisation and access and participation work in partnership with Schools and Faculties.

As a member of the Library Management Team (LMT), the role influences and contributes to the strategic planning of the service and represents the Library in internal and external collaborations.

About the Candidate

You will be a collaborative and adaptable professional with a background or experience in librarianship or information science, and experience supporting learning in a higher education or research setting. Confident in developing digital and in-person learning resources, you’ll bring strong communication skills, a commitment to inclusion, and the ability to build effective relationships across the university.

Benefits

We have generous benefits – an agile working environment, 28 days’ annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 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, and creative writing classes.

Equality and Diversity

Goldsmiths, University of London is passionate about advancing equality and celebrating diversity. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic background applicants as this group is currently underrepresented in this part of the university.