Curator International Art – Tate Modern

Opportunity type: Permanent, Full-time

Working hours: 36 hours per week

Salary: up to £31,941 per annum dependent on the skills and experience of the successful applicant

Location: London – Tate Modern, Bankside

Closing date: 12 May 2013 at midnight

Tate Modern’s programme of exhibitions and collection displays provide public access to some of the most interesting and ground-breaking modern and contemporary art in the world. To ensure the highest standard of content and delivery of this programme, we’re currently seeking an experienced Curator to play a leading role in our team.

As an experienced curator of modern international art, with specialist knowledge in the period 1900-1965, you will devise, develop and deliver exhibitions and collection displays to the highest standard, as well as contribute to Tate Modern’s programme.

You will lead and manage project teams, supervise exhibition and collection display development and installation design, contribute texts and editorial supervision to a range of publications, and manage budgets. As a member of the curatorial team at Tate Modern, you will support the senior management team and contribute to the overall vision of Tate. In addition, you will research and propose acquisitions within Tate’s acquisition strategy as required.

With a relevant degree and post-graduate degree in the history of art or related field, combined with a wealth of experience in the processes involved in staging displays and exhibitions, you will have proven excellent research, scholarly and curatorial planning and project-management skills. You will possess a specialist knowledge in international art in the period 1900-1965 as well as excellent communication and presentation skills, including the capacity to write authoritative texts for a specialist readership as well as accessible texts for a lay public.

For further information please visit http://workingat.tate.org.uk