Operations Coordinator

  • South Kensington
  • Victoria And Albert Museum

The National Art Library (NAL) at the V&A is Britain’s foremost research and reference library on art and design, open to all. It also holds the V&A’s curatorial collections of the art and design of the book. Following a recent reorganisation, the library is directed within the V&A Research Institute (VARI), together with the museum’s archives, which include the Archive of Art and Design, Theatre and Performance archives and the archive collections of Young V&A, as well as the museum’s institutional records and archives. VARI spearheads the V&A’s research strategy and activities and is a hub for innovative and collaborative interdisciplinary research, rooted in the V&A’s collections and practices, and for museum-delivered postgraduate education, through the V&A / RCA History of Design programme and the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership and Doctoral Training Partnership schemes.

The new role of Operations Coordinator has been created to support strategic and resource planning across the new department, with a focus on object-based administration and collections management, including storage and movement of library and archival material. Reporting to the Chief Librarian, the role is crucial to the smooth running of the whole department, and to delivery of outputs across research, public services, the care, development and presentation of collections, digital access, and to wider V&A projects and programmes.