Gallery Assistant

Faculty/Department
- Aberystwyth Arts Centre
- Salary Scale
- £20,688.20 per annum
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Full-time / Part-time
- Part-Time
- Weekly Hours
- 13.5
- Employment Visa
- Non-sponsorable
- Posted Date
- 10/05/2023
- Closing Date
- 24/05/2023
- Ref No
- 4861

The role
What you’ll do
Who you are - Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge, and Skills required:
How to apply

**Benefits**:
**Employment Visa**:
The role

Aberystwyth Arts Centre is one of the largest and busiest arts venues in Wales, with facilities unrivalled throughout the UK. It offers a wide-ranging programme of arts events, performances, exhibitions, festivals, workshops and special projects and welcomes over 500,000 visitors a year.

We are looking for dynamic individuals to work in our gallery spaces who are interested in contemporary art and have a passion to engage people with it, being able to communicate effectively about sometimes complex ideas within contemporary art to a wide audience including artists, curators and the general public of all ages and backgrounds.

Appointments are normally made within 4 - 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you’ll do

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- To ensure the safety of the exhibition work in Gallery 1, following opening and closing procedures and never leaving the gallery unattended.
- Opening and closing of other gallery spaces within the Arts Centre including Gallery 2, The Piazza Window, Ceramics Gallery and The Eye, turning on/off technical equipment and lighting.
- To engage with visitors and to ensure that the gallery is a friendly, welcoming and stimulating environment through:

- Having a background knowledge of all the exhibitions in the Arts Centre and being able to communicate the artists ideas and intentions in an accessible way.
- Encouraging a personal response to the exhibition through devising and promoting the learning activities provided and contributing comments to the comments board. - Being responsive to visitor queries and being able to deal with a wide variety of visitors in a friendly manner.
- To take accurate messages from enquiries in person or over the telephone.
- To undertake research tasks on forthcoming exhibitions as requested by the Exhibitions Assistant or the Visual Arts Manager-Curator.
- To deal with the sales of artwork, catalogues or other merchandise using the card machine or Collectorplan.
- To undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post.
- To be committed to the University’s Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post.
- To be committed to your own development and that of your staff through the effective use of the University’s Effective Contribution Scheme.
- Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Who you are - Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge, and Skills required:
Essential
- Previous customer service experience/working with the public
- An interest in contemporary art and a passion to engage people with it
- Good listening skills
- IT skills and basic administrative ability
- The ability to communicate effectively about sometimes complex ideas within contemporary art to a wide audience including artists, curators and the general public of all ages and backgrounds
- Oral (spoken) and Written Welsh Level B2.*

Desirable
- Fine Art/Design qualification
- Previous experience within a gallery environment
- Background knowledge of contemporary art; experience from a creative learning capacity
- Oral (spoken) and Written Welsh Level C1.*
- More information on Welsh Language Levels can be found at:
How to apply

**Benefits**:

- Flexible working policy
- 36.5 hour week for full-time roles
- Generous leave entitlements: 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays and university closed days
- Commitment to Professional Development
- Enhanced contribution to our workplace pension schemes
- Staff recognition and reward schemes
- Opportunity to learn the Welsh language for free
- Staff relocation bursary
- Maternity, Paternity, Parental and Adoption Leave
- Staff discount for gym facilities, hospitality, and retail on campus.

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