Creative Producer, Gallery and Public Events (Maternity Cover)

The opportunity

Central Saint Martins requires an experienced visual arts gallery professional to curate, manage and deliver its busy gallery and public events programme. You will work as part of a small team, with key stakeholders at Central Saint Martins to co-ordinate the galleries, exhibitions and other public-facing events, particularly relating to the Lethaby Gallery and Window Galleries.

As well as focussing on the history and influence of work by the college’s students, staff and alumni, the programme reflects the diverse artistic approaches from all college disciplines, as part of an overarching creative vision for the college, by broadening and diversifying our audience.

As part of this role you will design, schedule and deliver the galleries, exhibitions and other elements of a public-facing events programme which reflects the broad range of artistic approaches and disciplines that exist within Central Saint Martins. You will work with external collaborators, partners and funders/supporters to bring new opportunities into Central Saint Martins, including partnerships and strategic relationships, which will benefit the academic and cultural life of the college.

Working with our Visitor and Event Services team, you will ensure that all exhibitions/events are booked into other spaces in and around the college, and work with external event hosts to ensure technical requirements, health and safety and other gallery and event management processes are effectively and efficiently managed.

You will also liaise with all internal/external artists, designers, speakers and organisations for gallery and other events to ensure that requirements and information is received in good time to ensure the smooth running of events, liaise with the appropriate technical teams to ensure that they are fully notified of the technical requirements for all gallery exhibitions and other events and with the Marketing and Communications team to ensure that all event information is communicated and promoted in good time (to brand guidelines) to ensure effective internal and external publicity and marketing for all events, and that the College’s audience is sustained, developed and diversified.

Lastly, you will work with the External Relations team and other college colleagues to ensure that all events and exhibitions are properly costed and contracted.

About you

With a relevant qualification, ideally in the arts, museum studies and/or arts management, the successful candidate will possess the knowledge, interest and experience of contemporary visual arts and/or design practice.

Able to work collaboratively and communicate effectively, you will have experience of working with contemporary visual artists and designers to curate and realise exhibitions, as well as experience of project managing a range of arts related internal and external programmes and projects with minimum supervision, engaging key audiences, local community or wider public through arts education and socially engaged practice.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive pension and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity. Relocation assistance is available. 

If you have any queries about this role please contact the CSM Staffing Team, email jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk or telephone 0207 514 7885.

What we offer

We are UAL

Central Saint Martins is a world-leading centre for arts and design education.  Its reputation stems from the creative energy of its staff and students and the stellar achievements of its graduates nationally and internationally.  The nine programmes at CSM explore the boundaries of their discipline.  Students and staff are continually alert to new ideas, and are curious and restless in developing beyond the expected norms of their subject, so emerging work is at the forefront of its area.  Central Saint Martins sits at the heart of London’s creative scene, and of one of Europe’s most dynamic new culture and innovation quarters at King’s Cross, making the college increasingly important to London’s cultural life, and indicative of our general desire to open up Central Saint Martins to as broad an audience as possible.  

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