Position reference: 50087792
Directorate: Growth & Sustainability | Service: Culture, Housing & Regulation
Salary: £33,024 - £35,745 pro rata
Working Arrangements: Mon to Fri, occasional evenings and week
Hours per week: 30
Contract type: Permanent
We are happy to talk flexible working arrangements with you, please get in touch.
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Closing date: 27/09/2024 at 23:59
The successful candidate will be required to speak English to an appropriate standard.
This post requires a Basic Criminal Record Check
Prospective employees will be required to give a reasonable account of any significant periods (6 months or more in the past 3 years) of time living abroad.
When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.
Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.
How do we sum up Barnsley Council? Well, we’re a double award-winning, high-performing council with a growing economy, a thriving town centre and some truly impressive outcomes in our communities. This is why we’ve been awarded Council of the Year for 2023 by the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) and The Municipal Journal (MJ).
Our excellent Culture & Heritage Service has been a key part of our win; we’re so proud of what we’ve achieved not just for the council but for our partners and Barnsley.
We’re impressed. Are you? It’s the perfect time to join our excellent team.
About the Post:
It’s exciting times at Barnsley - we have a bold vision for Barnsley in 2030 as a place of possibilities. The Borough’s cultural and heritage sector has grown extensively over the last ten years and delivers a national quality offer in a local landscape. Its significant recent achievements include Experience Barnsley being shortlisted for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year prize in 2021, Kids in Museums Best Accessible Family Friendly Museum of the Year 2022 and the Sandford Award for Excellence in Heritage Learning at Worsbrough Mill 2023.
The museums and archives at Barnsley Council are a fundamental part of that thriving cultural ecology in the Borough. This unique set of assets includes Cannon Hall Museum and Gardens, the Cooper Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Experience Barnsley and Worsbrough Mill, as well as the Borough’s Archives. Our museums have become ever more popular. 1.8 million people visited our sites during 2023/2024, and we have begun ambitious developments at Elsecar Heritage Centre and Cannon Hall which will transform the visitor experience and provide further opportunities for engagement with our communities. The museums service is an Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio organisation and Barnsley is an ACE Priority Place. More information about our venues can be found at https://www.barnsley-museums.com/.
Over the last 15 years we have developed a high-quality, varied and inclusive programme of temporary exhibitions across multiple sites. Our exhibitions highlight Barnsley's own excellent collections, create opportunities for our audiences to co-curate and bring world-class loans and touring exhibitions to the borough. We are now looking to the next phase of developing the exhibitions programme and wish to recruit to the post of Exhibitions Officer as a key part of making this happen.
As part of the curatorial team, you will play a highly important role in shaping this programme, delivering exhibitions and working creatively and collaboratively with colleagues across the service in collections, learning, community engagement, digital, commercial and marketing, as well as partners from across the Borough and beyond.
You will have experience of managing exhibition projects and teams from concept to completion and have excellent organisational and communication skills. You will also have experience of working with local communities and using audience data to diversify and grow audiences. You will contribute to the overarching vision for the exhibitions programme, initiating ideas, looking for opportunities and reviewing feasibility in addition to maximising commercial opportunities and income.
If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact Natalie Murray, Collections and Exhibitions Manager, nataliemurray@barnsley.gov.uk
Please make sure you view the job profile for this role, as you'll need to demonstrate how you meet the required criteria in your application form.
Closing date: 27 September 2024
Interviews are expected to take place on 15 October 2024
Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.
Job Profile: Exhibitions Officer Job Profile.pdf
Vacancy Exposure Profile: Exposure Profile.pdf
Help with your application form
Please ensure you view the job profile for this role, as you will need to demonstrate in your application form how you meet the required criteria.
We welcome the opportunity to have a chat about the role and are happy to address any questions you may have about flexible working arrangements, including as a result of caring responsibilities.
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