Conservation Studio Manager

Location: St Pancras

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (36 hours)

Grade:A

Salary: £42,179 per annum

About the role

The British Library is looking for a Conservation Studio Manager to join our Conservation Department.

As Conservation Studio Manager, you will oversee the key workstreams of our conservation studios and workshops at St Pancras. You will manage the bidding programme, track the progress of conservation projects, and work closely with the Head of Conservation to ensure timely delivery and compliance with budgets and KPIs.

Your role will also include managing stock materials and equipment, maintaining a clean and safe studio environment in partnership with the Estates and Preventive teams, leading reviews of new techniques and treatments to improve conservation practices, directly managing team leaders to support smooth workflows and progress, supporting the learning and development needs of conservators and team leaders, and guiding the conservation teams through a major relocation as part of the St Pancras Transformed capital project.

About us

We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.

We have millions of books, and much more besides. Our London and Yorkshire sites hold collections ranging from newspapers and maps to sound recordings, patents, academic journals, as well as a copy of every UK domain website and blog. Our public spaces provide a place to research, to meet friends, to start up a new business or simply to get inspired by visiting our galleries and events. We work with partners and libraries across the UK and the world to make sure that as many people as possible have the chance to use and explore our collections, events, and expertise. And we're always open online, along with more and more of our digitised collection.

What we can offer you

• A competitive salary.
• A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).
• Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.
• 25 days holiday.
• Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits page.

We are able to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.

Closing date: 17/08/2025

Interview date: 28/08/2025, 03/09/2025 and 04/09/2025

If you have any questions, please contact

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.