Location: Boston Spa
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (36 hours)
Grade: A
Salary: £40,212 per annum

About the role
The British Library is seeking a Lead Conservator to provide leadership and advocacy in preventive conservation, conservation treatments, disaster preparedness and risk management across the Boston Spa site, Yorkshire. The site stores a high proportion of the library collection (books and newspapers) in 3 high density storage buildings and in a range of more traditional collection storage.

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.

What we can offer you
- 25 days' holiday plus 2.5 privilege days.
- Access to a defined benefit Civil Service pension scheme.
- Flexible working arrangements, including flexi-time.
- Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits

Closing at 23:59 on Sunday 23 August 2026

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]