Digital Scholarship Manager

University of Surrey; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Surrey is seeking a Digital Scholarship Manager to lead and develop our digital scholarship services within the Open Research and Innovation framework. You will work with researchers, educators and students to implement innovative Library services using text mining, coding, VR and data visualization.

You will help shape Surrey's digital scholarship offer, manage cross‑functional projects and build training programs to foster interdisciplinary collaboration across the University.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering digital scholarship services.
• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement.
• Proven ability to collaborate across departments.
• Experience building digital skills training.

Responsibilities

• Manage and contribute to innovative Library services.
• Collaborate with researchers, educators and students.
• Explore new approaches and technologies across subjects.
• Support Education and Research strategies and Open Research initiatives.
• Help deliver digital scholarship and open research across the University.

Skills

Digital scholarship

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Tools

Text mining

Coding

VR

Data visualization

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.

Interviews will be held week commencing 7th December.