Subject Liaison Librarian, Bartlett Library in London

UCL is London’s global university. LCCOS – Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science – provides outstanding staff, services and resources to support the world-class research, education and enterprise that is undertaken in UCL, and connects the world with UCL through innovative programming and engagement activities. LCCOS is acknowledged as an international leader in Open Science and Scholarship. The LCCOS family comprises 4 museums and allied object collections, 14 libraries, the UCL Student Centre, Special Collections facilities, multiple additional learning spaces and a substantial off-site storage facility. We also provide comprehensive services to healthcare staff through our partnerships with 6 NHS Trusts. LCCOS holds the UK Customer Service Excellence (CSE) Award, The National Archives (TNA) Archives Service Accreditation, and Arts Council England Museum Accreditation. The combined staff in UCL LCCOS totals around 450.

The UCL Bartlett Library holds specialist collections of materials spanning the fields of Architecture and Planning to Energy and Environmental Design. As well as a variety of modern study spaces, the library’s facilities include self-service book and laptop loans. The library primarily supports staff, students and researchers in the Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment. It also serves the wider academic community, both within the UK and internationally, as well as practising professional architects.

A new part‑time opportunity is now available within the UCL Bartlett Library team as a 0.6 Part Time Subject Liaison Librarian. The Bartlett Subject Liaison Librarians work proactively to build relationships with students and staff to ensure that services and resources required to support learning, teaching and research are available. On a day-to-day basis, the Bartlett Subject Liaison Librarians are responsible for providing training and support, managing collections relevant to the Bartlett Faculty, and promoting and raising awareness of library developments and initiatives. As a key member of the Bartlett Library team, this role provides excellent customer service and site supervision as required. This role works closely with colleagues across LCCOS taking a collaborative approach to the development of services and resources to support students, academics and researchers in line with LCCOS Departmental Strategy. This is an on-campus role. It is not suitable for regular remote working. This role does not meet the eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa certificate of sponsorship under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore, UCL will not be able to sponsor individuals who require right to work in the UK to carry out this role.

The role is 0.6 FTE part time, working 3 days per week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 8:45-17:03. Salary for this role is £26,388.60 per annum pro-rated amount for part-time hours. We are looking for candidates who in particular have the following experience and skills:

• Accredited undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in Librarianship or Information Studies, and significant experience of working in an academic library, preferably in a liaison or user support role.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to deliver user training that conveys information clearly and accurately.
• Experience of using specialist indexing and abstracting services to carry out literature searches.
• Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating training and related materials in both a face-to-face environment, and online.

The advert will close on the published date at 23:59 GMT. Interviews will be held in-person at the UCL Bartlett Library. A job description and person specification can be accessed from the link at the bottom of this page. Further information about UCL LCCOS can be found on our website.

The UCL Ways of Working supports colleagues to be successful and happy at UCL through sharing expectations around how we work.

What we offer:

• 27 days annual leave + 6 closure days (Christmas and Easter) as well as statutory holidays.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Ability to buy 5 additional annual leave days.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity leave.
• Carer’s leave.

Other benefits include a defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE); cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan; on-site gym etc. As part of the UCL community you can access free lunch hour lectures, exhibitions and museums and collections. On campus, UCL has the Bloomsbury theatre hosting a range of performances and a series of bars, cafes and other facilities, which UCL staff can use.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.