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You will support, advise and lead on all People matters across all sites, implementing the new People Strategy and playing a pivotal role in its development at a local level.

This is an exciting opportunity to also lead on strategic workforce planning, talent management, succession planning as well as the operational, day-to-day HR activities. You will also demonstrate our commitment to diversity & inclusion and corporate social responsibility to support our communities.

This is a key role within the People Team with wide ranging responsibilities across the designated Chief Officer’s portfolio. You will utilise your HR expertise to provide an excellent service and ensure a best practice approach.

The successful postholder will line manager a Senior HR Advisor and/or a HR Advisor.

The role is available for hybrid working and we are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements. The role can be based at either our London site in St Pancras or our Yorkshire site in Boston Spa. There will be a requirement for travel to both British Library sites.

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 20.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 4 September 2022

Interview date: 5 September, 6 September, 7 September 2022