Job profile

Salary: £46,362 – 54,762 per annum

We are seeking a collections data and systems expert to join the BFI’s Data and Digital Preservation department, in the role of Collections Data Manager.

This new role will manage the BFI National Archive’s Axiell collections management system infrastructure (the Collections Information Database – CID): oversee support and development, implement a roadmap for improvement, enhancement and integration; ensure that all components meet current and future requirements for good practice management of BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library collections data.

The role will also take the lead in the planning and implementation of best practice collections documentation and information management procedures and workflows.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage the key components of the Collections Information Database (CID) infrastructure: including Axiell Collections, Axiell Internet Server, Axiell Move and Workflow
• Take responsibility for the creation and implementation of information management and documentation procedures and workflows, ensuring that collections systems and data support BFI National Archive procedures and deliver its strategic objectives and business processes
• Provide line management and leadership for a Collections Information Database Specialist, Information Specialist and Documentation Team Leader, including prioritisation of workload, setting objectives and performance management

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Experience of managing a collections management system, ideally Axiell software, with experience in internal system enhancement and development; and proven ability to deliver a system improvement roadmap
• Line management experience, including managing workloads and projects, setting objectives and targets and managing performance
• Experience of information management and information and system requirements gathering, preferably within a similar institution, library, archive or museum, with evidence of successfully delivering information management projects

 About the BFI

We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.

At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.

We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are ethnically diverse. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by viewing the job pack to the left.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Monday 16 January 2023

First interviews will be held on w/c 23 January 2023