Salary: £47,389 to £53,301 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Cultural Institutions
Location: Manchester
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Whitworth Art Gallery Administration
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 29/09/2025
The Whitworth is one of the UK’s leading university art galleries, renowned for its national and international programmes and social impact. The gallery is seeking a senior curatorial leader to join the management team and help deliver its programme, mission, and strategic priorities.
The postholder will play a leading role within the curatorial team, embedding transcultural perspectives across programmes, and contributing to the Whitworth’s strategic priorities to acknowledge the diversity and global interconnectedness of art and their histories. They will lead the development and delivery of specific programme strands, collaborate on shaping collection displays, exhibitions, and their interpretation, shape research agendas, and help develop international partnerships. The role will contribute to acquisition and interpretation strategies, curatorial practices, public programmes, and digital initiatives — all through a transcultural lens.
Successful candidates will have access to a wide range of support, including, subject to application, a potential three-year fellowship programme of training, support, and networking for global majority curators supported by Art Fund’s Empowering Curators programme.
