Assistant Curator Intern or Volunteer

Job description

Role
Your role is to develop opportunities and co-curate exhibitions

Key deliverables
- List potential venues and actors to partner with, in or beyond the art sector, and build and/or maintain collaboration links to submit and/or organise solo, collective and mixed exhibitions
- Support the set-up of the exhibitions
- Find temporary or permanent exhibition premise for the exhibition
- Launch and manage call for artists
- Co-develop the communication strategy and writing content of each exhibition
- Contribute to the fundraising applications for the exhibitions
- Develop applications for residencies, art competition
- Coordinate the animation art project
- Link and maintain relationships with artists and the art sector partners

Requirements:
- Ensure positive and collaborative relationships with the team, the artists, the partners and the clients
- Ensure delivery of consistent brand messaging and vision through all exhibitions
- Actively engage in promoting and marketing the brand and the products
- Identify issues that could potentially damage the organisation’s reputation and recommend actions to mitigate this risk
- Take initiatives and show independency

Desired profile

Essential skills and knowledge
- Have qualifications or experience in curating exhibitions
- Have qualifications or experience in working in the London art sector
- Ability to develop ideas-driven exhibition program
- Ability to work collaboratively
- Excellent communications skills, including written and spoken
- Experience with marketing and communications, including developing web content and producing materials
- Fluent in English
- Be independent and creative with the ability to propose new development for the organisation
- Have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Have strong professional ethics, discretion and confidentiality, and sound judgement

Details
- Hours flexible over the week
- Be in a possession of a laptop

Application
- Position not paid
- Position begins as soon as possible