Arts Programme Curator

Salary: £12,610 fixed fee

Overview

Sheffield Doc/Fest seeks a Curator for its 2021 Arts Programme as part of our 28th edition in June. Doc/Fest’s annual Arts Programme is a space for experimentation in digital art practice, exploring narratives through research and bringing together varied forms and languages. This year that space will be a hybrid one – in Sheffield and online, playing with non-fiction boundaries and expanding them.

The role of the Curator will be to develop and deliver the artistic direction of the 2021 exhibition programme – a series of platforms, allowing for the discovery of a multiplicity of artists, artworks and practices in non-fiction from around the world. To give context to the artworks and a platform for the artists, the Curator will also programme a series of talks and sessions in parallel with the exhibition programme – again in Sheffield and online – a series of encounters and discussions bringing together artists, academia and public, in a dialogue between contemporary experience and artistic practice and research.

Terms

Role: Arts Programme Curator

Reports to: Festival Director

Location: Remote/home working in early 2021, based in Sheffield in the lead up to and over

the Festival, when safe to do so.

Contract: Freelance, worker contract

Fee: £12,610

Tenure: 1 February – 25 June 2021, worked flexibly/approximately as follows:

• 1 February – 19 February, 3 days a week
• 22 February – 25 June, 5 days a week plus weekends over the festival period.

Leave: You will accrue 12 days.

To apply

Read the full job description here.

We are inviting prospective applicants to apply for this role by submitting an up-to-date CV plus either a) a covering letter (no longer than 2 pages), or b) a video letter (up to 10 minutes in length), explaining what attracts you to the role and what you can bring.

Please address applications to: Melanie Iredale, Deputy Director, c/o Corrigan Lowe,

Administrative & Executive Assistant: recruitment@sheffdocfest.com

Please also direct any queries to Corrigan Lowe.

If you require further information (including requests for printed forms/access support), please contact us on +44 (0) 114 276 5141 or email: recruitment@sheffdocfest.com

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The deadline for applications is: 7 January 2021, midday GMT

Interview date: 14 January 2021

Induction date: 1 February 2021 at the earliest, building up to full-time from March, or ASAP

Festival dates: Starts 4 June – 13 June 2021

Contract end date: 25 June 2021

The closing date for this position is 07/01/2021 at 12:00