Scan and Deliver Assistant

Grade UE04: £22,630 - £24,715 Per Annum, Pro Rata

Information Services Group/Library and University Collections

Open-ended (Permanent), 17.5 hours per week

We are looking for a part-time Scan & Deliver Assistant to support the teaching and research needs of the University through access provision to scanned print content in response to user requests through the Scan & Deliver service.

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the University of Edinburgh and play a vital role in accelerating the transition to online access to Library resources and provide a key service to staff and students.
As a Scan & Deliver Assistant you will support the teaching and research needs of the University through providing digitised access to print content in response to user requests placed via the Library’s discovery service, DiscoverED (Primo) and process requests using the Library Management System, Alma.

You will also contribute to the E-Reserve service which provides student cohorts with copyright compliant digitised extracts of essential and recommended readings on Resource Lists.

You’ll find more information on the University Library’s Scan & Deliver Service on our website: https://edin.ac/2LEbQBY

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Experience of working in a library.

• Customer service experience.

• Good IT skills, including experience of MS Office and knowledge of Library discovery tools and Library Management Systems. Ability to quickly learn and use new IT systems.

• Flexible approach with the ability to deal with problems as they arise.

• A knowledge of copyright in libraries would be an advantage
  

The Scan & Deliver Assistants form part of a team working onsite at the Main Library in Edinburgh to provide essential services.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions.

Interviews are expected to be held early April.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.