Library Business Partner

The Library Business Partner at Birmingham City University is responsible for providing an engagement service to a designated faculty as part of the Library Engagement team. The role involves developing proactive business relationships with stakeholders within the faculty, supporting the university's strategies and policies, and ensuring the library supports academics and students with the resources and services they need. Main duties include developing excellent relationships with academics, understanding and supporting faculty strategies, advocating for the Library and Learning Resources (L&LR), planning reports, supporting course development and quality assessment, and working closely with various L&LR teams.

Essential qualifications include a degree or equivalent experience in librarianship, information science or a related area, knowledge of higher education academic libraries, proven track record in delivering quality services to diverse stakeholders, excellent negotiation and influencing skills, understanding of library budgets and resource management, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and excellent digital literacy. Desirable is experience in project management.