Brief Description Key Responsibilities Include The Following: Manage team members consistent with different curatorial departments.
Oversee acquisition and care of collections in line with best practice and university policies.
Advance information systems to enhance research access to museum resources.
Devise diverse exhibition programmes to attract a range of audiences.
Interact with the museum's holdings to curate relevant and appropriate exhibitions.
Develop the museum's fundraising and strategic direction.
Create and publicise a programme of museum events.
Conduct research and writing on the collection across different platforms.
Requirements: Matric.
Honours degree in Fine Art, Art History, or Heritage Studies.
Minimum of 5 years work-related experience in / with museums or galleries.
The position involves responsibilities in collections management and growth, storeroom maintenance and preventative conservation, database management, research, facilitation of research access, and the ability to generate income streams for the museum.
The position requires the incumbent to familiarize themselves closely with Wits Art Museum's extensive holdings and curate exhibitions that interact with the diversity of the permanent collections to impact on and educate a broad range of audiences and to write interpretive texts for exhibitions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, networking skills, a willingness and capacity to work both collaboratively and independently, and within the constraints of an institutional bureaucracy are required.
The incumbent should be motivated, energetic, creative, resilient, professional, detail-oriented with a methodical, meticulous approach.
The WAM team is very small, so applicants should also be willing to participate in practical mundane museum activities such as setting out furniture, packing workshop equipment, cleaning glass, etc., with a positive, can-do attitude.
Desirable: MA (Art History, Fine Arts, Curatorial, Archive Studies); Post-graduate certificate in curatorial or museum studies.
Time Commitment: This is a full-time permanent post with a year's probation.
This position is in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
As a committed member of the team, the successful candidate will also be expected to participate in after-hours programming at the museum.
For enquiries about the job content, please email Julia Charlton at ******.
Please do not submit applications via this contact.
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