Programme Consultant Curatorial Diversity

This is an exciting new fixed term role in Art Fund's programmes team. You'll play a lead role in the strategic development of a new Art Fund programme that will create substantive and long-term opportunities for curators from ethnically diverse backgrounds working in the UK’s museums, galleries, heritage and the wider visual arts.
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Contract length: 6 month

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The Programme Consultant will be responsible for overseeing the development and design of Art Fund's curatorial diversity programme. You'll work closely with the Art Fund Programmes team on the project, support the Development team with creation and roll out of the fundraising strategy, and be responsible for the management of consultants working with Art Fund in this area. You'll take a lead on the research and development of Art Fund's curatorial diversity programme, including working with a range of stakeholders, and creating spaces and forums for consultation and the testing of ideas. As a part of the programme development you'll scope out a mechanism for mentoring and a training/CPD offer, alongside creating the evaluation framework. You will manage a budget and costs associated with the development phase. If within scope you will also be responsible for the roll-out of any pilot, overseeing any selection process and the delivery of the programme in its initial phase. You will be closely involved in bringing existing Art Fund Programme Managers into the project and embedding the programme into Art Fund's wider offer. As a part of the role you will contribute to project governance, including the administration of any advisory or steering groups. You will manage and strengthen key Art Fund relationships in relation to the project, representing the organisation at a senior level internally and externally.

This project sits alongside other work at Art Fund investigating the development and diversity of collections. It is expected you will work closely with colleagues leading on this research to join up strategic efforts in this area.

Who are we?

Art Fund is the UK’s national fundraising charity for art. We believe that art can make you see, think and feel differently, and through our work we help make art more accessible to as many visitors as possible, wherever they are. We give grants to help museums and galleries acquire works of art for their collections, share them with wide audiences, and support the training and professional development of curators. We are supported by our growing membership of 130,000 through the National Art Pass, as well as the generosity of many trusts, foundations and individuals.

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The Programme Consultant will play the lead role in the strategic development of a new Art Fund programme which aims to achieve a sustained increase in ethnic and cultural diversity in the UK’s museums and galleries.Informed directly by recommendations within the Art Fund commissioned 2022 report Its AboutHanding Over Power by Culture&/Museum X, we are now seeking to develop, launch and deliver a programme that will create substantive and long term opportunities for curators from ethnically diverse backgrounds working in museums, galleries, heritage and the wider visual arts. Through this programme we wish to create new funding, partnerships and opportunities to support and enable curators and practitioners working specifically in an institutional context, investing in new and alternative models, enabling long-term structural and organisational change. It is our hope that one key outcome of the programme will be to encourage and accelerate new approaches to collecting, alongside facilitating artistic interventions into public collections and spaces.

The Programme Consultant will be responsible for overseeing the development and design of ArtFund’s curatorial diversity programme, working closely with the Deputy Director of Programme &Policy on the project, alongside supporting the Development team in any fundraising strategies. A key responsibility will also be the ongoing management and oversight of consultants working with ArtFund in this area.They will take a lead on the research and development of Art Fund’s curatorial diversity programme, including working with a range of stakeholders, and creating spaces and forums for consultation and the testing of ideas. In shaping the programme they will create a programme structure, methodology, support and mentoring mechanism, training/CPD offer, criteria, evaluation framework, timeline and proposed budget for delivery. They will manage a budget and costs associated with the development phase.

If within scope they will also be responsible for the roll-out of any pilot, overseeing any selection process and the embedding of the programme in its initial phase. They will be closely involved in bringing existing Art Fund Programme Managers into the project and embedding the programme into Art Fund’s wider offer.This project sits alongside other work at Art Fund investigating the development and diversity of collections. It is expected the Programme Consultant will work closely with colleagues leading on this research to join up strategic efforts in this area.As a part of the role the consultant will contribute to project governance, including the administration of any advisory or steering groups. They will manage and strengthen key Art Fund relationships in relation to the project, representing the organisation at a senior level internally and externally.

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