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

The role can be based in one of Arden's campuses (Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham) or 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

At Arden, you will…