Curatorial Assistant

**We are looking for a Curatorial Assistant to join our Hayward Gallery Exhibitions department on a permanent, full-time basis.**

**About the role and the team**:
As the hub of visual arts activity at Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery presents a diverse exhibition programme that features monographic surveys of influential artists from across the world and major international group shows exploring pivotal themes and issues of the day. Hayward Gallery also offers a programme of free exhibitions with lesser known artists in our Project Space to audiences in London and beyond.

**Role objective**:

- Support the curatorial team in the planning, organisation and delivery of Hayward exhibitions and other projects.
- _ a min 5% pension contribution (going up to 8% depending on employee contribution)_
- _ 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays_
- _ Hybrid working model (3 days office working, 2 days from home)_
- _ Enhanced sick pay_
- _ Enhanced family leave benefits_
- _ Discount at all onsite retail, food and beverage vendors_
- _ Free staff tickets for SC events_
- _ Free entry to Hayward Gallery_
- _ Free/discounted entry to other institutes such as the Tate_
- _ Free staff yoga _

The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre occupying a prominent riverside location that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. We exist to present great cultural experiences that bring people together and we achieve this by providing the space for artists to create and present their best work and by creating a place where as many people as possible can come together to experience bold, unusual and eye-opening work. We want to take people out of the everyday, every day.

The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is made up of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery as well as being home to the National Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. It is also home to six Resident Orchestras (Aurora Orchestra, Chineke Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Orchestra).

**Our Artistic Mission**

Southbank Centre exists to provide great artistic experiences for everyone. Through art, we invite our visitors to enjoy shared cultural encounters together. To gaze. To listen. To be moved. To discover a new idea or a new perspective. We are proud that for the last 70 years, the performances and exhibitions here have moved millions. We have provided a home for art and for artists. A community centred on art, where everyone, no matter their job, helps make the experience.

We create a place where as many people as possible can come together to experience bold, unusual, entertaining and eye-opening work. We want to take people out of the everyday, every day.

By attracting people to work for us from a broad range of backgrounds with diverse attitudes, opinions and beliefs we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things. SC is a warm and welcoming place to work, with great aspirations and ambitions to create great and accessible work for all. We pride ourselves in building a supportive environment to enable the development of our staff.

If you feel you have just some of the required skills and experience but meet the person specification, we would still encourage you to apply; we are very open to continuing the training and development of individuals who are self motivated to acquire new skills and knowledge relevant to the role.