Skills Librarian

Our Provost - Learning and Teaching department drives forward the University's ambition to provide excellence and opportunities for all students; building on Derby's long-standing reputation for teaching excellence, ensuring the development of sector-leading flexible, integrated learning that aligns to the needs of learners, not just now but in the future.

Our Library is one that supports our communities to realise their ambitions by opening up new areas of knowledge & understanding and through fostering applied creative thinking.

At the centre of our approach is a high-quality student experience, outstanding student outcomes and supporting an excellent research environment. With this in mind, our teams deliver against three core strategic themes:

Community - The original missions of libraries were not about repositories of books or as gatekeepers to knowledge but about fostering communities of scholars. With that in mind, our focus is on how the Library supports the wide range of communities we have, fostering connection and empowering academic culture.
Confidence - There is a fundamental role for the Library to ensure all students become confident, independent learners and researchers. We shall support students to develop confidence and applied creative thinking through our academic skills provision and an industry relevant skills offer that enhances performance whilst at university as well as into their chosen future.
Content - Exploration and access to scholarly content is critical to the process of learning, teaching, research, and knowledge exchange. The Library plays a significant role provisioning scholarly content, working with our academic colleagues and students. We shall work to ensure that relevant content is delivered in a sustainable way and that we leverage technology and meta data expertise that enables our students and academics to explore and access the scholarly record.
The Skills Librarian will be based within the Academic Enhancement Team within the Library, whose core functions are to provide direct delivery of skills support to students, supply guidance to academic teams on how to incorporate skills development within course design and assessment and work collaboratively with colleagues across the institution to further enhance personal development and growth opportunities for key stakeholders.

About the Role
You will be responsible for the operational delivery of high-quality development opportunities that enable students to enhance, evidence, and articulate transferable skills. You will partner with colleagues across the University to plan, design, create and deliver in-curricular and extra-curricular skills development sessions, engaging digital resources and pathways and provides one-to-one or small-group support to help students succeed academically, professionally, and personally. This role is hands-on, student-facing, and central to embedding the University's Skills & Personal Development Framework into the core student experience.

The working pattern for this role is 8.30am - 5pm Monday to Thursday, 9am - 5pm Friday with an hour lunch each day.

You will be an experienced and motivated professional with an appetite for supporting others to develop their skills and achieve their career goals. You will bring a strong track record of designing and delivering engaging sessions, alongside creating practical guidance materials that enhance learning and development.

You should have experience supporting students or individuals in building their career readiness, employability, or entrepreneurial skills, and you will understand how to tailor your approach to meet diverse needs. Building positive, collaborative relationships should come naturally to you, and you will be confident working with a wide range of stakeholders.

You will have experience of being proactive in identifying opportunities to improve services and have contributed to innovation in skills development or learner support. You will also be comfortable working with data, with experience in establishing and using key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure impact, analyse outcomes, and inform decision-making.

Organised, analytical, and solution-focused, you take pride in delivering high-quality work and making a meaningful difference.