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Senior Curator (Collections)

Salary £48,000
Location London
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

The Royal Academy of Arts is currently looking to appoint a Senior Curator to join our Collections team.

The Senior Curator will support our Head of Collections and the team in the leadership of curatorial strategy and the custodianship of the RA collections.  This role will look after and promote the RA’s historic and contemporary collection as well as contribute to the Academy’s wider public engagement through displays, publications and events, and our extensive loans programme.

About You

To be considered for this position, you will have substantial experience of working in a museum, historic house or equivalent institution with a range of media in your charge and care. You will have a postgraduate degree in History of Art, or related subject, ideally with a focus on British art.

Relevant experience of exhibition/display creation, from the generation of ideas and research around them through to the implementation of plans and delivery is key, as is experience of caring, for and cataloguing collections.

A strategic thinker, you will have the ability to think laterally and creatively to help realise the ambitions of the department and the Academy.

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

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Employee Clubs

Football, Staff Choir and more

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