Opportunities
Operations Coordinator (Visitor Experience)
The Operations Coordinator (Visitor Experience) is a crucial role within the Studio Voltaire team, guaranteeing an exemplary welcome and engagement for our wide range of visitors, participants and onsite studio artists. The Operations Coordinator (Visitor Experience) briefs and supervises a team of Studio Voltaire Assistants (SVAs) to ensure our programmes are well communicated and accessible to all visitors and that our building and artist-designed garden is looking its best, under the guidance of our General Manager.
This is an exciting and varied position, working across the entire organisation to support the operational delivery of a wide range of events, including our artistic and community programmes, internal meetings, external events and venue hires. Working closely with our onsite restaurant partner Crispin and other partners, the Operations Coordinator (Visitor Experience) ensures the smooth running of our offers.
Overseeing the dynamic day-to-day operations of a busy Front of House, the Operations Coordinator (Visitor Experience) needs to be well-organised, proactive and able to self-start and deliver against the diverse demands of the role. Importantly, they need to have the utmost enthusiasm in engaging with our audiences and welcome communities to all Studio Voltaire has to offer.
Deadline for applications: 5 pm, Tuesday 23 April 2024
- Department: Operations
- Salary: £28,000 (pro rata)
- Contract: 1-year (Fixed term contract) with a view to renew
- Occasional evening and weekend work required.
- Time-off-in-lieu in line with Studio Voltaire’s policy
- Probation: 3 months
- Notice: 2 month (probation notice period is 4 weeks)
An online recruitment session will be held ahead of the application deadline to answer any questions you might have about the position with Louis Jones (General Manager) and Hayley Dixon (Head of Finance and Operations).
- Online recruitment session: Monday 15 April 2024, 7–8 pm
Please sign up for the online session at this link. A Zoom link will be sent out one hour before the session.
Exhibition Host (Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland)
The Exhibition Host (Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland) will play a targeted role, supporting the Programme team at Studio Voltaire to communicate and engage audiences in a major new exhibition of two cultural icons; Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland.
As a part of the Front of House team at Studio Voltaire, the Exhibition Host will work alongside the Studio Voltaire Assistants to deliver the highest standard of visitor welcome and experience, invigilating Studio Voltaire’s gallery space, engaging visitors, and animating the curatorial interpretation material provided. The Exhibition Host will articulate the significant refocus at the heart of this exhibition and reveal interconnected ideas surrounding gender, sexuality, taste and class at play in the pairing, engaging audiences in nuanced and accessible ways, drawing upon knowledge of each artist’s practice, and their own lived experience to do so.
Guaranteeing the day-to-day safety and security of the artworks and archival material loaned for Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland by valued supporters and the public alike, the Exhibition Host will monitor and report on the condition of all artworks, observe Health & Safety protocol and escalate risk to the broader team.
The Exhibition Host will advocate for Studio Voltaire’s charitable status and contribute to its monitoring and evaluation in addition, gathering audience feedback to assist in growing and learning about our audiences, helping to meet the reporting requirements of our funders and supporters, and encouraging and facilitating onsite donations and spend in House of Voltaire.
Deadline for applications: Monday 29 April 2024, 5 pm
- Department: Operations
- Salary: London Living Wage, currently £13.15 per hour
- Contract: 3-month (Fixed term contract)
- Occasional evening and weekend work required.
- Time-off-in-lieu in line with Studio Voltaire’s policy
- Probation: 2 weeks
- Notice: 1 month
An online recruitment session will be held ahead of the application deadline to answer any questions you might have about the position with Nicola Wright (Curator, Exhibitions) and Louis Jones (General Manager).
- Online recruitment session: Tuesday 23 April 2024, 7–8 pm
Please sign up for the online session at this link. A Zoom link will be sent out one hour before the session.
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