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Assistant Curator, V&A East Museum - Internal applicants only

Reference: JUL20213048
Expiry date: 2021-08-06 12:00:00.000
Location: South Kensington
Salary: £22,627.00 - £26,341.00 Pro Rata
Benefits: Group Personal Pension, Life Assurance Scheme, and other great benefits
Duration:Fixed Term Contract / Secondment (August 2021 to March 2022)
Attachments: AssistantCuratorJDWaterfrontFTC.pdf

This Assistant Curator post will support work on the V&A East Museum at Stratford Waterfront, with a particular focus on curatorial research, development and delivery of collection galleries and display spaces as well as early-stage collection scoping for the Temporary Exhibitions programme, during a critical stage in the evolution of the project.

The post-holder will carry out collections-based and subject-specific research (bringing a contemporary and thematic lens to objects spanning disciplines, time periods, media and cultures) and lead discrete aspects of the content management process as required.
They will work closely with the Chief Curator and Lead Curators, who will lead on vision and content development.

The post-holder will need to build and maintain good relations with the project team, colleagues across the Museum and other stakeholders involved in the V&A East and wider East Bank project. The assistant curator will also support the core Curatorial Team and Project team with devising and delivering project-related communications material, talks and events as appropriate.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 6 August at midday.


Please note this role is open to internal V&A applicants, V&A volunteers, V&A Zero Hour Workers/OPAs and V&A History of Design students only