Curator - UQ Art Museum (Identified s105)

• UQ Art Museum

• Position open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates only

• Strong commitment and action toward a diverse and inclusive workforce

• Be part of an organisation with meaningful purpose and impact

• Based at St Lucia Campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Access to flexible working arrangements including part-time work, hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Affordable parking (from just $5.75 a day)

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity 

An exciting opportunity is available for a Curator to join the UQ Art Museum. The Curator is a key contributor to the research, development and delivery of innovative exhibitions of Indigenous art and ideas, ensuring industry best practice for the museum, that artists are nurtured and critical conversations are encouraged that benefit and involve the University and broader communities. The Curator role is an integral collaborative role within the museum and will providing mentorship to students across the creative and administrative dimensions of intersectional curatorial practice.

This position includes the research and recommendation of works of art for The University of Queensland Art Collection, in discussion with, and alongside the Director and other members of the Curatorial team.

The position has delegated responsibility for the management, coordination, and supervision of paid assistants including casual staff and interns.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Contributing to the platforming of Indigenous art and ideas, alongside the broader Curatorial team’s activities which align exhibition-making with the University’s Indigenous research agenda and objectives.

• Engage with a broad spectrum of university peers, students, alumni as well as members of local and international Indigenous communities in order to contribute to relevant practices and discourses, around which to develop exhibitions and other public-facing programs.

• Research, curate and lead innovative and intellectually rigorous exhibitions, programs or public art projects, including associated materials such as print or digital publications, that engage campus, alumni and local and international Indigenous communities in dialogue around issues and histories of contemporary importance. Collaborate with artists, communities, academics and co-curators (both internal and external to the University) on exhibition and other curatorial projects.

• Collaborate with the UQ Art Museum Education and Engagement teams to develop and ensure the effective delivery of programs associated with exhibitions, presenting lectures, floor talks and other public programs that build connections with the University and broader community.

For further information, please click here to view the information booklet.

This is a full-time (100%), continuing position.  

At HEW level 6, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $88,099 - $94,512, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $103,076 - $110,579 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

At UQ, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are supported to fill their cultural responsibilities, with access to 8 additional days (pro-rata) of paid Cultural Leave annually. Indigenous employees are encouraged to access the UQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Staff Network with a variety of significant events held throughout the year.

About You

The University of Queensland considers that the filling of this position constitutes an equal opportunity measure under s105 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991(Qld) and under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).

The position is therefore only open to Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.

The successful candidate will be required to provide evidence to confirm that they are an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person.

• Degree level qualification in Indigenous Studies, Art History, Visual Studies, Curatorial Practice, Arts Management and/or Museum Studies with subsequent relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

• Experience and knowledge in artist liaison, exhibition making and public programming in museum, gallery, artist-run or remote art centre settings.

• Proven ability to provide the intellectual, creative and operational direction required to develop, successfully deliver and evaluate innovative and provocative, audience-focused exhibitions.

• Demonstrated wide knowledge of Indigenous art practices, histories and ideas, whether in context of Australian art history or not.

• Thorough knowledge of the Indigenous cultural protocols, professional codes of practice and ethical standards pertaining to the Indigenous art and design, Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, and development of art museum collections.

• Demonstrated interpersonal, organisational and project-management skills, including a proven ability to initiate and oversee multiple concurrent projects and the capacity to lead teams.

• Experience working in a university environment and with students.

• Experience with mentoring students across creative and administrative dimensions of intersectional curatorial practice.

Desirable

• Proficiency in a single or multiple Indigenous languages will be recognised and supported in the workplace.

• Postgraduate qualification in a discipline relevant to the position and/or experience writing for scholarly publications.

• Ability to initiate productive relationships with academic colleagues and to work collaboratively with them.

• Ability to assess, propose and implement updated work practices and procedures within a museum-based environment.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Peta Rake, Director, UQ Art Museum, at [email protected] . For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , people with a disability, or age . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected] .

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Sunday, 7 July 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-38475).