Assistant Curator (Heritage Programmes & Screencraft)

To work with the Curator and Senior Project Manager to identify, develop and deliver new audience facing opportunities for the BFI’s Screencraft collections (particularly photographs, designs and graphic arts), with specific attention to new and diverse audiences, ensuring alignment with cross programme delivery, lottery objectives and outcomes.

Work with the Screencraft and Heritage Programmes teams to develop a portfolio of new and existing cultural, engagement and learning activities, tracking progress and supporting collections opportunities.

Undertake a full range of collections responsibilities in relation to the project, including cataloguing, digitisation to aid exhibition and engagement support, as well as talks and study sessions. Ensuring collections are fully embedded in programming in vibrant and new ways

Support the Curator with delivery against agreed objectives, including undertaking research administration, digitisation, preparing works for transport and liaising with venues, fine art agents and external contractors and venues.

Support partnership working, residencies and volunteers across the programme and KLC. Helping meet the needs of intended audiences and communities to ensure they feel included in the development of activities and outcomes.

Provide curatorial support for marketing, content and campaigns by contributing to a full range of interpretation and editorial work, helping develop, deliver and engage wider colleagues with Inside the Archive (ITA) editorial including the ITA Blog and Newsletter, and associated video content for Inside the Archive.

Support the Senior Project Manager to ensure that deliverables and outputs are aligned with lottery project objectives, monitoring progress and learning against these objectives. Compiling statistics and reports as required.