CURATOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMMING AND EXHIBITIONS (PART-TIME)

Starting in September 2023

Part-time, 3 days per week (22.5 hours)
Salary: £22,500 per annum (£37,500 pro rata)
Term: 1 year

Application deadline: 8 August 2023

Pushkin House is a leading arts organisation which continues to critically explore Russian culture and provide a platform for artists and creative practitioners from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Our public programming, exhibitions and community engagement – across history, literature, and the visual and performing arts – share connections among individuals, disciplines, periods and cultures, and focus on themes of identity, citizenship, displacement and belonging.

We are looking for a talented individual to join us as an Assistant Curator (part-time, 3 days per week) to enrich and diversify our programme. The successful candidate will be a professional creative with expertise in fine art, art history, history and/or cultural studies, with over two years of professional experience in delivering cultural projects, who will be able to contribute to our ongoing programme.

You will assist in developing, managing, and promoting our programming within the framework of our cultural strategies. Working closely with the Executive Director and the curatorial team you will initiate events, develop original strands of programming and complement major institutional projects with your ideas, adhering to the strategic aims and criteria.

You will also develop and oversee the delivery of the inspirational engagement programme that is central to our activities. You will create opportunities for our communities to get directly involved with our space and those issues that we explore as an institution.

The position has been generously supported by the Foyle Foundation

LIST OF RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

General:

  • Initiate, develop and contribute to the realisation of our cultural programme

  • Liaise, engage and contract with artists, academics, writers, musicians, designers and other creatives

  • Engage and contract with art and cultural institutions to facilitate collaboration, partnership and exchange

  • Assist with the production of texts and other interpretative materials for offline and online presentations

Engagement:

  • Inspire, nurture and engage our communities and facilitate cultural conversation on relevant themes

  • Assist with social and cultivation events including representing Pushkin House where appropriate

Administrative:

  • Devise, monitor and maintain budgets for projects and events together with the Executive Director and Development Officer

  • Obtain copyright permissions, compile guest lists, maintain relevant databases and process responses to events proposals with other members of the team

  • Organise travel for speakers and artists, as well as additional logistics

Research:

  • Conduct research into the institutional archives and reflect on its histories

  • Archive exhibition and events materials and make them available where appropriate.

WE OFFER:

  • A dynamic cultural environment with an excellent reputation among key stakeholders

  • Office in central London (Holborn)

  • Active involvement with all strands of our programming

  • Opportunities to initiate cultural conversations and to affect agendas

We look forward to receiving applications from all and particularly those from under-represented groups as we embark on the next chapter of Pushkin House’s development. 

To apply for this position, please send your CV and covering letter (750 words max) with the subject line “Curator of Public Programming and Exhibitions (part-time)” to recruitment@pushkinhouse.org.uk. We also ask all applicants to complete an anonymous equal opportunities form by the closing date.

We want you to complete your application in a way that is comfortable for you. We will accept video and audio files that answer the person specification and role description. Please ensure your video or audio file is no longer than 5 minutes. You can send this to recruitment@pushkinhouse.org.uk by the closing date.

Closing Date: Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 11:59pm
Interviews: W/C 14th August, in person and via Zoom where appropriate