Curatorial Assistant - Collections (FTC)

The Vacancy

Please note, this role is being offered on a part-time (3 days per week), fixed term contract basis for 12 months.

About This Role

The Royal Academy of Arts have recently embarked on an exciting new project to expand our Collections Gallery. This project will significantly enhance the RA’s free offer for visitors by allowing a greater selection of works from the RA’s rich collection to be displayed.

We are now recruiting for a Curatorial Assistant to support the Collections Team in the information gathering, organisation, presentation and delivery of the new Collections Gallery and related displays across the RA, as well as provide administrative support to the curatorial team.

About You

To be considered for this role, you will have a degree in History of Art, or comparable working knowledge, with proven research skills in the field of art history. Exceptional administration skills are key, as is the ability to work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.

Occasionally, this will be required to work evenings and weekends. TOIL will be given for this time.

The Company

The RA dates way back to 1768 when a group of artists and architects persuaded King George lll to help them to ‘establish a society for promoting the Art of Design'. The original academy, in Pall Mall, was less than 10 meters long. Since then, there have been many changes, though the RA’s core purpose of bringing art and design to a broad audience and championing art and artists still holds true.

Today we are a contemporary art organisation hosting internationally acclaimed exhibitions and through investment in employee training and development, with courses such as Unconscious Bias, LGBTQ+ Awareness, Bystander, and Mental Health First Aid training, we are striving to foster a safe space for everyone through positive action. We also have Employee Network Groups, Ways In Groups, and an Employee Council so every employee has a voice and a way to feel heard by colleagues through the CEO.

The RA is truly a unique place, both as an attraction to our visitors, but also as a workplace. Our people are at the heart of all we do, and we support a broad and inspiring mix of departments; from exhibitions, curators, art handlers, researchers, publishers, and digital to schools and education, visitor welcome, fundraisers, and corporate support.

The Benefits

Exhibitions

Reciprocal Agreements with galleries across the UK

Enhanced Pension

Generous employer contributions

Enhanced Holiday

25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Wellbeing

Access to a virtual GP Service and Mental Health First Aiders

Agile Working

The opportunity to work flexibly

RA Staff Council

Where your views are heard and listened to

Employee Clubs

Football, Staff Choir and more