University of Cambridge seeks a Medieval Manuscripts Specialist. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and proactive individual to work at the heart of one of the world's major research libraries with an outstanding collection of western medieval manuscripts.

The successful candidate will lead the development of high quality reader-focused services to support scholarship on the manuscripts, promoting them to the research community at local, national and international level. He/she with deal with all aspects of the care and administration of medieval manuscripts and will be outward-looking in developing innovative digital services alongside traditional methods to support the University in its teaching, learning and research and to make the medieval manuscripts accessible to the widest possible audience. He/she will have the necessary skills and enthusiasm to exploit the opportunities created by the Cambridge Digital Library and to take a leading part in developing and implementing a new online catalogue of medieval manuscripts.