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Salary: £28,119 per annumTerm: Fixed-term for 18 monthsHours: This is a full-time role but we will consider candidates who would prefer a job share.&nbsp;Location: St Pancras with some occasional work outside of standard working hours &nbsp;The British Library's International Team is seeking an International Skills Exchange and Governance Coordinator to support our international skills exchange projects and coordinate the day-to-day activities relating to the governance of the international office strategy.&nbsp;Over the past 8 years, the British Library’s International Office has worked with partners around the world to advance knowledge and mutual understanding in a spirit of mutually beneficial reciprocity. This work includes multiple collaborations, projects and relationships to deliver skills and knowledge exchanges with international partners. You can find more information about our work via our website: <a href="https://www.bl.uk/about/international" target="_blank">https://www.bl.uk/about/international</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The role&nbsp;You will act as a focal point of co-ordination for international skills exchange activities run through the International Office, both at the British Library and at partner organisations in the UK and abroad. You will coordinate a number of annual special events with international networks, such as seminars, webinars and conferences.&nbsp;You will also provide high quality administrative and co-ordination services for the International Strategy group and regional programme boards, and manage all organisation and correspondence in relation to these.&nbsp;You will report to the Head of the International Office and will be part of a small team of people who are passionate about international relationships and cultural heritage, and who can develop and implement impactful international projects.&nbsp;So, if you want to make a meaningful impact, creating skills and knowledge exchanges that support libraries and archives across the world, we want to hear from you!&nbsp; &nbsp;About you&nbsp;We are looking for a proactive, highly organised candidate, with diplomatic skills. Crucial to this role will be your ability to connect with people, to think on your feet and to work with a variety of people both internally at the British Library and with international partners.&nbsp;Organisation will come naturally to you and you will be adept at juggling multiple projects. You will also have good experience in minute-and note taking, as well as writing well-structured documentation, such as briefing papers.&nbsp;We are particularly keen to hear from people with a good experience of communicating across different cultures and good understanding of diversity. We are looking for an excellent communicator who recognises the value of collaboration, working well with colleagues at all levels.&nbsp;&nbsp;We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, mixed race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.&nbsp; &nbsp;ApplicationApply on the British Library website via the Apply buttonClosing date: Sunday 21st September 2025&nbsp;Interview date: Wednesday 8th October (afternoon) and Friday 10th October (all day) – Interviews will be held in-person in at our London site in St Pancras.&nbsp; &nbsp;About us&nbsp;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.&nbsp; &nbsp;What we can offer you&nbsp;<ul><li>A competitive salary.</li><li>A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).</li><li>Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.</li><li>25 days holiday.&nbsp;</li></ul>Full details of employee benefits can be found on our <a href="https://www.bl.uk/about/careers" target="_blank">Careers: Benefits page</a>.We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

The British Library

International skills exchange and governance coordinator

Closing date for applications: 12 September 2025Salary: £25,600 per annum (based on FTE of £32,000)Contract: Part time (four days a week), 7.5 month fixed term Help connect the public with the Southbank Centre's iconic archive through creative engagement programmes and volunteer sessions.The Southbank Centre is Europe’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top five visitor attractions, occupying an 11-acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. Its impact and reach are significant and it is respected internationally as a convener of great artists and diverse audiences and for being entrepreneurial and innovative in response to a volatile and changing financial landscape. The Southbank Centre is a charity that is determined to demonstrate its ambition to remain innovative, disruptive and experimental in what it does and to be highly relevant to the artists it wants to work with and to the audiences it wants to attract.We are currently looking for a project archivist (access) to join on a four-day part time, fixed-term contract. The project archivist (access) role will take the lead in developing and delivering our celebrated participatory collections management scheme for the period January 2026 - March 2026. Working closely with the public archive team and wider creative engagement teams, you’ll develop and run workshops focused on the collection priorities of the archive. Responsibilities<ul><li>Work with the archivist and wider creative engagement team to lead delivery of biweekly volunteering sessions, centred in the Archive Studio in the Royal Festival Hall</li><li>Develop engaging and informative sessions from creative engagement and collection priorities, including skills training, promoting wellbeing, collection care and building collections information</li><li>Provide a responsive point of contact for the archive research and enquiry service, in-person, via phone and through email contact</li><li>Conduct in-depth archival research to assist users in locating specific documents or information in support of their query</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>A general understanding of the requirements of archival work, such as repackaging, describing, digitising and arranging archive material</li><li>Experience in managing volunteers and delivering creative public engagement or training programmes</li><li>Proficiency in using archival management software, ideally Access to Memory, and demonstrable IT literacy</li><li>An accredited qualification in Archives and Records management, equivalent experience or a demonstrable interest in archives and heritage</li></ul>Please download the job description from our career page via the 'Apply' button for a full overview of the role's responsibilities. Benefits and perksAs well as working at one of London's most popular and exciting sites, the successful candidate will also benefit from the following:<ul><li>A minimum 5% employer’s pension contribution (rising to 9% depending on your employee contribution), from day 1 of employment</li><li>28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time employees)</li><li>Hybrid working model</li><li>Enhanced sick pay</li><li>Enhanced family leave benefits</li><li>Up to 30% discounts at onsite retail, food and beverage vendors</li><li>Staff ticket offers for Southbank Centre events</li><li>Free entry to Hayward Gallery</li><li>Free/discounted entry with other reciprocal organisations</li><li>Free staff yoga</li><li>Free access to emotional support from a confidential specialist Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7</li><li>Season ticket loan</li><li>Cycle to work scheme</li></ul> Additional informationWe welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse background or those who are D/deaf or disabled. If you wish to discuss reasonable adjustments such as a BSL interpreter for your interview, please indicate this on your application form. Interviews will take place at The Southbank Centre. If you would like to speak to someone about any adjustments or concerns, you can also email and we will be in touch with you to make the necessary arrangements.By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things. The Southbank Centre is a warm and welcoming place to work, with great aspirations and ambitions to create great and accessible work for all. We pride ourselves in building a supportive environment to enable the development of our staff.If you feel you have just some of the required skills and experience but meet the person specification, we would still encourage you to apply; we are very open to continuing the training and development of individuals who are self motivated to acquire new skills and knowledge relevant to the role. Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

The Southbank Centre

Project archivist - access

Closing date for applications: 18:00 BST on 12th of September 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp;The Ffern Folk Foundation is seeking applicants for its 2026 Grant!The Ffern Folk Foundation is a new initiative aimed at supporting the next generation of British Folk Arts and Traditions.&nbsp;The central pillar of the Foundation is our annual grant of up to £50,000, which will fund one or more practitioners to progress their work and bring it to a wider audience. &nbsp;Our VisionIn a time of ecological crisis and social dislocation, we believe that Britain’s Folk Arts and Traditions are fundamental to the strengthening of our bonds with the environment and each other.Through our advocacy, we aim to grow and connect folk communities across the country. In turn, we hope that this will give more people the chance to get involved in this dynamic cultural space. &nbsp;What We SupportWe believe British Folk Arts and Traditions are not static or dormant. Our focus is on supporting those who are engaging with British Folk in new and vibrant ways.&nbsp;While we are open to working with a wide range of practitioners, we will use the following constellations to plot our course.Storytelling: oral histories, sound, songRitual: ceremony, dance, performance artGathering: rambling, community, seasonalityWe welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries, and may feel estranged from the conventional scope of British Folk Arts and Traditions. &nbsp;How to ApplyTo make an application, follow the link at the bottom of our webpage found via the Apply button. Within your application, you must include two documents.&nbsp;<ol><li>A portfolio (5 pages) of relevant work which includes your artist’s CV. You can link to other materials, e.g. your website, films, animations, exhibitions, from this portfolio.</li><li>A written proposal (800 words).</li></ol>Within your proposal we require a short description of your project, a brief timeline of how you expect to enact your project, and a description of how you would use your requested budget.To tailor your proposal, please refer to the Folk Foundation <a href="https://ffern.co/folk-foundation" target="_blank">webpage</a> where you'll find our <a href="https://ffern.co/folk-foundation/faq" target="_blank">FAQs</a>. For any further queries, please contact us through <a href="mailto:folkfoundation@ffern.co" target="_blank">folkfoundation@ffern.co</a>&nbsp;We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

Ffern Folk Foundation

Ffern

Call for applications – The Ffern Folk Foundation

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