Salary:                  £23,874.29 - £25,898.58 p.a. plus benefits

Job type:             Permanent

Hours:                 36.25 hours per week

St John’s College, one of the largest Colleges within the University of Cambridge, is seeking to appoint a Library Assistant into its busy Academic Library set within its beautiful and historic College grounds.

The Library Assistant will provide the backbone of the Library’s ‘front of house’ service and is integral to the Library's smooth and efficient running. It involves carrying out a variety of essential daily routine and non routine tasks including answering enquiries and issue desk invigilation, as well as maintain reader records and taking responsibility for the likes of shelving books, archives, manuscripts and other materials. 

The successful candidate should be educated to at least A Level standard with some previous experience of Library or similar work. Accuracy, courtesy, speed and efficiency are also paramount in this role. The Library Assistant must be able to act on their own initiative, learn quickly, and work under pressure, taking responsibility for the work of the issue desk whilst carrying out duties with minimum supervision.

The College offers a competitive benefits package including membership of a defined contributory pension scheme, 36 days’ annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays), access to a ‘cash plan’ healthcare scheme currently provided by Simplyhealth, free lunch (up to a specified monetary limit), free use of an on-site Gym and free parking close to the College site and an Agile Working policy whereby eligible staff may be able to work remotely for up to 40% of their working hours.

For further particulars and an application form, please see below, email recruitment@joh.cam.ac.uk or telephone 01223 338794.

The closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9:00am on 6 March 2023.  Interviews are expected to be held on Tuesday 14 March 2023.

In applying for this role, you will provide personal data which the College will process in accordance with its data protection obligations and its Data Protection Policy. Please see attached for a copy of our Data Protection Statement for further information about how we process your personal data.