Salary: Up to £38,000
Location: Piccadilly, London
Level: N/A
Deadline: 10/11/2019 23:59
Hours: 40.00
Benefits: Generous company pension and other attractive benefits
Job Type: Temporary
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
The Exhibitions Department conceives, organises and delivers the Academy’s world-renowned programme of eight yearly temporary exhibitions. The programme spans global artistic practices from antiquity to the present day and is organised in collaboration with leading institutions internationally.
The Curator will be responsible for curating specific exhibitions, in collaboration with certain external curators, working collaboratively with the Exhibitions teams and with departments across the Academy.
Please note, this role is a maternity cover.
About you
You will be educated at least to postgraduate level in Art History or related subject, with a focus on 20th century British and European art. You will already have some experience of working in a museum or similar institution, and of working on large scale loan exhibitions from inception through to delivery. You will have excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Command of another European language, specifically German, would be beneficial however not essential.
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.
Closing date for applications: 10 November 2019 (midnight)
Interviews to be held: w/c 18 November 2019
