Libraries Project Support Officer

Overview

Are you passionate about libraries, community engagement, and making a real difference? As our new Library Services Project Coordinator, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering a wide range of innovative projects and initiatives across Buckinghamshire’s library services. This is your chance to work at the heart of a dynamic team, supporting everything from cultural programmes and Healthy Libraries to the Schools Library Service and Library Flex service.

You’ll coordinate and promote exciting activities, analyse performance to drive improvement, and help ensure our services are inclusive, impactful, and visible to the communities we serve. If you thrive on variety, enjoy collaborating with others, and want to contribute to projects that enrich lives and inspire learning, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of library services in Buckinghamshire!

About us

Buckinghamshire Libraries are vibrant community hubs, delivering much more than books. Our teams work together to promote reading, culture, wellbeing, and inclusion across the county.

As a Library Services Project Coordinator, you’ll be based in the Culture and Outreach Services team but will collaborate with colleagues from all areas of the library service. Our team is friendly, supportive, and passionate about making a difference—whether we’re running cultural events, supporting health initiatives, or rolling out new services like Library Flex.

You’ll join a group that values new ideas, teamwork, and professional growth. Expect a warm welcome, plenty of variety, and the chance to help shape services that matter to our communities.

About the role

You’ll coordinate and support a range of library projects in relation services and projects such as Schools Library Service, Healthy Libraries, and Library Flex—across teams. The job involves planning, data analysis, promoting activities, handling enquiries and supporting events.

You’ll be encouraged to develop your skills, take part in training, and help others learn. The council values diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing, so you’ll be supported in your growth.

No two days are the same! You’ll work on varied projects, create engaging content, and collaborate with different teams. The role is creative, people-focused, and offers the chance to make a real impact across the service. You’ll be central to delivering and improving library services, with opportunities to innovate and shape how libraries support health, culture, and learning in Buckinghamshire. It’s a diverse role with real community impact, offering variety, responsibility, and the chance to develop a broad skill set in a supportive environment.

Any-Desk:

As an ‘any-desk’ worker, you’ll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements.

About you

As a Libraries Project Support Officer, you will have a passion for libraries and culture, have excellent organisational and communication skills. A proven track record of working collaboratively on projects and initiatives. You will be comfortable on all aspects of project support from creating and promoting content online to time-management. The role is varied from supporting at events held in libraries to using analytics tools to produce impact reports.

Other information

Please see the attached job summary for further information on this role and person specification.

Number of positions available: 1

Interview-type / process: In person

Please note that this is a Fixed Term Contract until December 2026.

If you would like to have an informal conversation with the recruiting manager, please contact: Zoe Loake, Culture and Reading Manager

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day. 

This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:

• collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• managing Country Parks
• leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
• Cemeteries and Crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment. 

We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.

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