Assistant Librarian (Acquisitions & Systems)

Salary: £38,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Deputy Head of Library Services (Acquisitions and Systems)

Department: Learning Success Hub

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The role can be based in one of Arden’s campuses (Birmingham,  Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham) or as a remote working position with occasional travel to one of our campuses. You must therefore must be located within commutable distance to an Arden campus. Our working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit so please note that an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

About Arden University:

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

About our Department:

At Arden University, we’re dedicated to providing students with everything they need to excel in their studies—all in one place! Our Learning Success Hub is a dynamic, 24/7 support service designed to help students thrive academically and achieve their goals. This includes a Library Portal, Academic Skills support and the English Language Hub.

This role is part of our fully digital Library service, working with acquisitions, reading list provision, and library systems to ensure an inclusive, high-quality resource is provided.

About the Opportunity:

As our Assistant Librarian (Acquisitions & Systems), you'll play a key role in ensuring Arden University's library services remain accessible, relevant and impactful for our students and academic colleagues. Working within the Library Services team, you'll help manage and develop our digital collections, library systems and learning resources while supporting one of our academic schools as a dedicated subject specialist.

This is a varied role where you'll combine collection management, acquisitions, systems administration, user support and training delivery. You'll collaborate with academic teams to ensure library resources are fully integrated into programmes, support the development of new modules and help maintain high-quality collections that meet the needs of our students and staff.

You'll also contribute to the ongoing development of library services by managing resources and systems, delivering engaging training sessions, creating user guidance and responding to student enquiries. Working closely with colleagues across Academic, Digital Learning, IT and Student Support teams, you'll help deliver an outstanding library experience that enables learners to succeed.

About You:

We're looking for a proactive and customer-focused library professional who is passionate about information services and student success. You'll bring experience of working within a library environment, ideally in higher education, along with a strong understanding of library systems, digital resources and collection management.

You will be highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and confident building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Excellent communication skills are essential, as you will be delivering training, creating guidance materials and explaining complex information in a clear and engaging way.

You will have experience of supporting library users, working with bibliographic data and digital information resources, and contributing to projects that improve services and user experience. A degree-level qualification and either a postgraduate qualification in Librarianship or Information Science, or equivalent relevant professional experience, will help you succeed in this role.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who is driven to continuously improve processes, embraces innovation and is committed to providing an exceptional service to students, academics and colleagues across the University

Why Arden:

At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays on-top, and even a Christmas closure!

• A generous Aviva pension plan, company contributions starting from 7%

• BUPA Cash Plan

• Private Medical Insurance

• Access to Perkbox benefits

• Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for all family and friends

• Plus, other excellent benefits

• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
  

Our Values:

Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations.

Closing Date: Sunday 23rd August

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.

If you are a current Arden student or have an upcoming course with us, you are not eligible to apply for Student Experience roles due to a conflict of interest related to system access.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion:

Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means that if you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you wish to be considered under this scheme, you can indicate via the application form below. By doing so, you are also consenting for this information to be shared with the hiring team. For more details on what qualifies as a disability under the Disability Equality Act 2010, please refer to the guidance here.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.

Sponsorship statement:

Please be aware that some roles may not meet the points requirement for a sponsored Skilled Worker visa, or fulfil the criteria we have for providing sponsorship.  However we welcome applications from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK but may be eligible for a visa through an alternative route.