Information Assistant
| Posting date: | 18 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £23,751 to £24,570 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2026 |
| Location: | Durham, County Durham, DH1 5LE |
| Company: | Durham University |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 26000135_1771409348 |
Summary
The Role and Department
The Customer Services Team is part of University Library and Collections (ULC). We provide front-line (face to face and virtual) customer, visitor and enquiry services across our department. This includes visitor services at our museums and visitor attractions: Palace Green Library, Oriental Museum and Durham Castle, as well as user services in our Libraries and study spaces 7 days a week, including 24/7 during part of the academic year.
Information Assistants contribute to the frontline customer service provision, ensuring that all customers have a high-quality experience, through working on information points, answering queries, proactively providing information and assisting customers. Specific tasks across our sites include: visitor guiding; exhibition preparation; working on our Help and Information desk answering queries and assisting customers; supporting special events, student focused campaigns and engagement activities; undertaking user experience (UX) activities; circulation tasks including book returns and some re-shelving; maintenance of the collections; undertaking opening and closing routines, and maintaining study spaces and galleries.
This post may work across Visitor and Library Services in our various museums, heritage buildings and libraries.
The Customer Services team work Monday to Sunday, including bank holidays, as part of a standard rota. The shift pattern for this role will include weekend working every week.
This post will work across Visitor and Library Services in our various museums, heritage buildings and libraries. The role actively contributes to the frontline customer service provision, ensuring that all customers have a high-quality experience, through working on information points, answering queries, proactively providing information and assisting customers. Specific tasks across our sites include visitor guiding, exhibition preparation, working on our Help and Information desk answering queries and assisting customers, user engagement, supporting special events, circulation tasks including book returns and some re-shelving, maintenance of the collections, undertaking opening and closing routines and maintaining study spaces and galleries
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