Salary: Up to £25,000
Location: Piccadilly, London
Level: N/A
Deadline: 22/09/2019 23:59
Interviews to be held: w/c 30 September 2019
Hours: 40.00
Benefits: Generous company pension and other attractive benefits
Job Type: Permanent
About the Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts is one of the UK’s foremost arts institutions and our vision is to be a clear, strong voice for art and artists. We are an innovative, forward-looking and commercially astute organisation that receives no government operating subsidy. It is a particularly exciting time in our history after having redeveloped our 2.5-acre campus in Mayfair, uniting our two buildings and providing refurbished galleries for the display of art and architecture, a state-of-the-art auditorium, a new learning centre and a dedicated Collections gallery in Burlington Gardens, and enabling greater public visibility of the art school at the heart of the Academy.
About this position
With the increasing activities of the Collections team, we need an Assistant Curator to support the curatorial activities of the Department across a range of areas. From researching provenance details and to compiling catalogue entries and generating web content, you will provide a high standard of administrative and curatorial support. You will assist with displays from the Collections and be involved with the administration of acquisitions and co-ordinating visitors and scholars.
About you
We’re looking for a diligent, organised and self-motivated individual. You must have a passion for the history of British Art and be willing to take on a range of tasks. Strong research and communication skills are essential, ideally gained working with collections, libraries and/or archives. You will have outstanding attention to detail, and a degree in History of Art or equivalent. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to build networks both internally and externally. Experience of documentation, cataloguing and research would be advantageous.
This role will require you to be adaptable and willing to take on a range of tasks, as well as occasional out of hours working, for example, to supervise installations of collections.
What benefits do we offer?
- We offer a very generous pension scheme, contributing up to 10% of your salary into a defined contribution scheme.
- In addition to 25 days’ holiday and 8 public holidays each year, we close between Christmas Eve and New Year, allowing staff further paid leave.
- We encourage staff to attend free History of Art and life drawing classes on site. We also have a staff choir, staff gallery and running and craft clubs. Best of all, we have reciprocal agreements with many leading museums and art galleries in London and New York, enabling you to enter for free with your staff pass.
