Digital Scholarship Manager

University of Surrey; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Relocation aid

Flexible working

Job share

Home/campus blend

Leisure facilities

Travel schemes

Family-friendly benefits

On-site nursery

Job summary

The University of Surrey Library is seeking a Digital Scholarship Manager to lead and develop innovative library services across disciplines, including text mining, data visualisation and VR.

You will work with researchers, educators and students to shape Surrey's Open Research and Innovation agenda, building partnerships across GLAMs and other professional services to deliver a bold digital scholarship offer.

Job description

The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research.

We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourselves into one of the best universities in the world, which we are achieving through the talents and endeavour of every employee.

Our culture empowers people to achieve this aim and to collectively, and individually, make a real difference.

The role

Join Surrey University Library in this new and pivotal role as the Digital Scholarship Manager.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a new area supporting researchers at Surrey. The post will manage and contribute to the development of innovative Library services, working in partnership with researchers, educators and students, exploring new approaches and technologies (including text mining, coding, VR and data visualisation) across all subjects.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the University’s Education and Research strategies while helping deliver sector-leading Library services that enable innovation, collaboration and inclusive academic practice.

About you

We are looking for an outstanding candidate to help us shaping, set and maintain Surrey Digital Scholarship offer as part of our Open Research and Innovation team.

You will bring a deep understanding of digital innovation across Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs), alongside strong project management skills, a track record of impactful implementation in digital scholarship, and experience in relationship building. Key skills include managing digital scholarship services, developing digital skills training, and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration.

As a keen innovator and collaborator, you will help supporting the operational delivery of the service, working across functions with colleagues from other professional services departments to form a new offer for digital scholarship and open research across the University.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

Please note that the post requires a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.

In return we offer a generous pension, relocation assistance where appropriate , flexible working options including job share and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties), access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.

The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.