Curating Visibility Fellowships – Curating for Change

Job Title: Curating Visibility Fellowship
Salary: £23,933
Hours: Full time
Term: 15-months from April 2024 to June 2025
Location: Dover Museum / Food Museum / Imperial War Museum Duxford
Closing date: 10:00 am 8 February 2024

Do you love museums and want to begin to pursue a curatorial career? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent?

Screen South, through its pioneering Accentuate Programme, is delighted to announce that we are now recruiting for a brand new project, Curating Visibility, funded by Arts Council England.

Curating Visibility builds on the successes of our previous project Curating for Change and is providing 6 new Fellowship opportunities in host museums.  We are now recruiting for the first three of these placements.

The first three Fellowships are 15-months from April 2024 to June 2025. Fellows will receive:

  • On the job experience in one of 6 partner museum across England.
  • A salary of £23,933 per annum based on 35 hours per week
  • Access to an appropriate and comprehensive package to support access and participation.
  • Flexible working options.
  • Opportunities to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills within innovative curatorial practice.
  • The chance to build connections with 6 partner museums across England taking part in the programme.
  • Build a network with 5 other Curating Visibility Fellows.
  • The opportunity to make sure disabled people and their history are represented in museums through curating your own exhibitions or events using the latest digital technology to engage visitors.

The museums involved in the first 3 Fellowships:

  • Dover Museum, Dover, Kent
  • Food Museum, Stowmarket, Suffolk
  • Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire

How to apply:

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Deadline: 10am on Thursday 8 February 2024

Applicants are required to send their application by email to Esther Fox, Head of Accentuate, at [email protected]

Interviews will take place between Monday 4 – Friday 8 March 2024. Exact dates for each museum to be confirmed. Please let us know if you have any access requirements.