Senior Imaging Support Technician

Location: St Pancras
Hours: Fixed term – Full time until Dec 2025
Grade: C
Salary: £27,300 pro-rata

The position of Senior Imaging Support Technician is essential for the operational success of the Imaging Studio at the British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership. This role demands a skilled imaging operator primarily engaged in scanner work, tasked with producing and post-processing digital images to high standards of productivity and quality. The technician ensures that studio outputs align with industry best practices and meet the technical standards of the British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership.

In addition to capturing high-quality digital images from the British Library collection, the role supports the imaging team by performing others tasks as importing metadata, conducting quality assurance checks, and managing optical character recognition (OCR) processes.

The position requires profound knowledge of imaging devices and digital imaging software, experience in image quality assessment according to international standards and guidelines (e.g. ISO 19264, FADGI, Metamorfoze). The role also requires active participation in team meetings to manage tasks and drive studio enhancements.

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 26.6% (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: 30 May 2024
Interview date: 10 June 2024

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