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We’re hiring a Kickstart Scheme Gallery Assistant
Bethlem Gallery is seeking a part-time Gallery Assistant to assist with many aspects of running a gallery, including front of house duties and digital content production. This is an exciting role for someone with good communication, organisational and digital skills. The role is based within a hospital setting. You will work with a dynamic team of staff and artists to support our gallery operations and digital content.
Location: Remote/London, BR3 3BX
Hours: 25 Hours
Salary: £10.85/hour (London Living Wage)
Deadline: 10.00 am Mon 11 Oct 21
The gallery is an ideal platform for experimentation, collaboration and skills exchange. Collectively we strive to develop the careers, experience and expertise of the gallery artists by creating opportunities for professional development. Our successful artist-in-residence projects also work with patients and staff on site to improve people’s experience of the hospital environment.
Responsibilities
Duties include:
- Welcoming visitors into the gallery, and maintaining the gallery space.
- Handling enquiries.
- Assisting our Digital Manager in drafting posts and taking photographs for social media, writing blogs and editing images for the website.
- Providing information about artwork.
- Working on evaluation projects.
- Maintaining a tidy and well-presented gallery in compliance with Health and Safety legislation.
- Assisting with maintaining the high standards of customer service required in the Gallery areas.
- Maintaining the gallery’s record systems (both paper and computer based). Ensuring artworks are logged, priced, and updated on the gallery’s data base and client records on a regular basis.
- Assisting the gallery staff and volunteers with our storage management and coding and pricing of artworks.
- Assisting gallery staff and artists in workshops.
Requirements
- You must be aged 16-24 years old, and unemployed and claiming Universal Credit.
- A keen interest in arts, health, and/or social/community work.
- Experience in using Microsoft office suite applications particularly Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Confidence using social media and willingness to learn about how to edit a WordPress website.
- Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
- The ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- A hands-on, calm attitude.
- Ability to work well with a diverse range of people.
This programme is being delivered as part of the government’s Kickstart Scheme. If you’re eligible for Kickstart scheme, please speak to your Work Coach to find out how to apply.
For more information please see the Create Jobs website here.