Can you be a bridge between our audiences and collections? Can you work as part of a team to achieve project targets?
Bradford’s National Science & Media Museum’s Sound & Vision Galleries will, for the first time, present the museum’s collections together in two new permanent displays telling the story of photography, film, television and sound technologies.
To support this work, we are now recruiting for an Associate Curator (Sound & Vision) on a full-time basis for 12 months. As a core member of the curatorial team, you will collaborate with members of staff across the museum in the development and installation of the content of our new galleries by aiding in collections research, content development and audience engagement. You might be researching and cataloguing objects or, at other times working with colleagues across the Science Museum Group (SMG) in ensuring that the content of the new galleries are engaging to our audiences. You will also take on the specific responsibility of leading on a strategy to embed participation within the museum by delivering and championing community curation from the starting point of the collections.
Joining us, you will hold a genuine interest in community engagement and museum collections, with an ability to connect with our audiences. You will be able to communicate stories about our collections to a range of non-specialist and specialist audiences. You will have excellent interpersonal skills with experience of working as part of a team with a variety of stakeholders to achieve project targets. You will be organised with an ability to effectively coordinate several internal and external stakeholders. Due to the project work entailed in this role, you will need experience in managing complex administrative processes including budgeting and project management planning systems.
The Science Museum Group (SMG) is here to inspire futures. As the world’s leading group of science museums, we share our unparalleled collection spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine with over five million visitors each year. Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we currently offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; BUPA medical and dental care; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; enhanced occupational sick, maternity, paternity and adoption leave and career breaks.
‘Open for All’ is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.
We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures. We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.
Does this appeal to you? If so, click here to view the Vacancy Information Pack which provides you with details of the role and the application process.