Camden Green Hub Coordinator

Location: St Pancras
Contract: Fixed Term for until 31st August 2028
Hours: Full time (36 hours)
Grade: B
Salary: £34,608 per annum

About the role
The British Library and Camden Libraries are looking to recruit a Camden Green Libraries Coordinator who is passionate about climate action with creative community engagement and programming.
The Coordinator will design and deliver sessions in Camden libraries and at The British Library. These sessions will enable attendees to develop, learn and share ideas for more sustainable everyday behaviour, and the benefits of positive climate change action.
They will also document and share the learning from these Camden activities, for replication in all Green Library Hubs across the UK, and more widely through the Library Authorities in the Living Knowledge Network.
The role holder will work jointly for Camden Libraries (2.5 days pw) and the British Library in St Pancras (2.5 days pw), for a fixed term of three years, as determined by the grant. This work is part of the wider National Lottery funded Green Libraries Hub Project, run by CILIP as part of the Green Libraries Campaign.

About you
Applicants must demonstrate:
• Experience of facilitating creative community workshops and activities at a high standard of engagement for a range of users
• Demonstrated ability to make workshops accessible and inclusive for all in the context of a wide community.
• Passion about and holds strong subject knowledge on environmental issues and carbon positive action and awareness.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills as appropriate, to organise well planned and prepared workshops to run efficiently and effectively.

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
- A competitive salary.
- A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).
- Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.
- 25 days holiday.
- Full details of employee benefits can be found on our Careers: Benefits page.

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

Closing date: 09 November 2025
Proposed Interview date: 19 November 2025

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.