Three Decades of Changing Minds: Marking 30 Years of Glasgow Women’s Library
Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) celebrated its 30th anniversary in September 2021. As we now enter our fourth decade, we are thrilled to be recipients of a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a two year project to interpret, safeguard and share our own 30-year heritage, and enable us to ‘look back to move forward’.
Since 1991 GWL has grown from an unfunded, grassroots group into a renowned heritage resource: delivering thousands of events, supporting thousands of volunteers, and in a sequence of spaces that have impacted on many hundreds of thousands of people locally, nationally and internationally.
Glasgow Women’s Library is a unique organisation that aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of women’s history, lives, and achievements in all their complexity and diversity. As the UK’s sole Accredited Museum dedicated to women’s history, and a Recognised Collection of National Significance, we also house an extensive lending Library and deliver innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities.
As GWL’s origins and earlier work become increasingly historic, and public interest in them as a model grows, this project – Three Decades of Changing Minds – will ensure that our institutional knowledge and own heritage is not at risk of being lost and is made available for wider public benefit. It will involve many people, including past and current volunteers, while bringing GWL to new audiences. Raising awareness of key change-making milestones in our history, it will inspire the work of both established and emerging heritage and cultural projects, and will help GWL to respond to the increasing ‘ask’ of our organisational ‘elders’ to share knowledge about who we are and how we function.
Three Decades of Changing Minds will publicly mark 30 years of a ground-breaking organisation that has informed and responded to equalities agendas. It will illustrate the core values at the heart of GWL, and encourage wider ownership, awareness and participation.
We are now seeking two new team members to join our dynamic team, and take this project forward: a Project Coordinator to lead the project, and a Project Archivist to augment our current Collections Team to appraise, catalogue, digitise and make accessible GWL’s organisational records.
Project Coordinator
Job Description: Project Coordinator: Three Decades of Changing Minds, Glasgow Women’s Library
This is a Fixed Term Contract for a period of two years
Hours of work: 21 hours per week (part-time)
Salary: £28,950 pro rata (actual salary: £17,370), plus 6% Employer’s Pension Contribution
Holidays: 25 days per annum plus 12 public holidays (pro rata)
Reporting to: Director of Creative Development, Delivery and Engagement
Main Purpose: To manage and co-ordinate the Three Decades of Changing Minds project, which focusses on the origin story, history, development and heritage of 30 years of Glasgow Women’s Library
Download: Project Coordinator Job Description and Person Specification
Download: Project Coordinator Job Application Form (Part 1)
Download: Project Coordinator Job Application Form (Part 2)
Project Archivist
Job Description: Project Archivist: Three Decades of Changing Minds, Glasgow Women’s Library
This is a Fixed Term Contract for a period of 18 months
Hours of work: 35 hours per week (full-time)
Salary: £28,950, plus 6% Employer’s Pension Contribution
Holidays: 25 days per annum plus 12 public holidays
Reporting to: Director of Operations, Resources and Enterprise
Main Purpose: To lead in appraising, cataloguing, digitising and making accessible GWL’s organisational records
Download: Project Archivist Job Description and Person Specification
Download: Project Archivist Job Application Form (Part 1)
Download: Project Archivist Job Application Form (Part 2)
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Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 12 noon on Monday, 24th January 2022.
Please email both parts (Part 1 and 2) of the completed application form to apply@womenslibrary.org.uk
Interviews for the Project Coordinator post will take place on Monday 7th February 2022; interviews for the Project Archivist post will take place on Tuesday 8th February 2022.
These posts are supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please carefully read all the information provided on this page and in the recruitment documents. We hope that the additional information below will be of help to potential applicants.
Will you accept my CV?
No, please don’t send us your CV, or attach it to your application form. These posts require specific skills, knowledge and experience, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification. The application form asks you to answer particular questions that are designed to assess how you match these requirements.
Can I submit my form later than the closing time and date?
No, we will start to prepare the applications for shortlisting straight away and need to stick to the closing time and date to be fair to everyone applying. The closing date for applications for both posts is 12 noon on Monday, 24th January 2022.
I can’t make the interview date, can I be interviewed at an alternative time?
We have only one day set aside to interview shortlisted candidates for each of the posts, and so it’s not possible to make alternative arrangements for interviews.
Interviews for the Project Coordinator post will take place on Monday 7th February 2022; interviews for the Project Archivist post will take place on Tuesday 8th February 2022.
Will interviews be in person or online?
With such current uncertainty around the Omicron Covid-19 variant, we are unsure about whether restrictions will be in place at the time of the interviews that might prevent in-person meetings. Meeting shortlisted candidates in person is our preference, and interviews will be held at Glasgow Women’s Library if possible. However, we also have the ability to conduct interviews by Zoom. The details regarding arrangements will be confirmed nearer the time.
Do you have other job opportunities available?
We are currently also seeking a Production Coordinator to work with and across the GWL team to deliver our vibrant programmes of events and exhibitions.
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