Location
Penrith
Position
Craft Specialist Role
Advertising Salary
£12.10 per hour
Hours Per Week
40
Vacancy Type
Permanent - Full Time

About The Role

This is an exciting role to assist the Gallery Manager in the development, installation, and delivery of the gallery programme. Maintaining excellent standards of presentation and visitor experience in our Art Gallery and Design Shop.

Working alongside your team of colleagues you will engage with our customers and showcase our unique offer from the exceptional artists and makers that we work with. Using your warm and friendly personality you will use your passion for delivering exceptional customer service to ensure our customers are given a memorable experience every time they stop with us.

The role will involve 

  • Day to day running of the gallery desk, opening and closing the exhibition and giving our visitors great customer service as well as maintaining excellent standards of presentation and visitor experience for all our customer types by ensuring day to day procedures are followed.
  • Selling artwork and logging sales on to a spreadsheet with great attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Display stock to our creative merchandising standards maintaining presentation and cleanliness standards throughout the day’s trade.
  • Support with exhibition research and development and administration; uploading images, filing submission forms, creating selling sheets for exhibitions, listing shop stock and requesting and printing barcodes. 
  • Replying to emails, enquiries, and liaising with artists.
  • Managing gallery databases, including, tracking footfall, environmental data and collecting customer data.
  • High quality production and execution of exhibitions; being very hands on during exhibition installations and art handling.
  • Supporting other art projects within the building.
  • Maintaining accurate gallery inventories for equipment and artworks in storage.
 

About You

We are looking for someone who is:
  • Confident in using microsoft packages including excel and outlook
  • Able to assist with taking down and installing exhibitions; confident using tools, ladders, and working at heights, able to lift and move about whilst working as part of a team.
  • Able to load and unload exhibitions onto transport.  Art handling training will be given. 
  • Able to work quickly to meet key dates & deadlines.
  • Available to assist running evening previews. (3 or 4 a year)
AV & sound knowledge would be an advantage but is not essential.

About Us

At Rheged you will also enjoy the following benefits; 

  • Up to 25% off in our cafes
  • Up to 75% off the products from the Kitchens of our family of businesses (Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge Services)
  • 25% off the products in our shops
  • Free entry to our cinema and discounted tickets for family and friends
  • Free entry to our gallery 
  • A free meal whilst on shift
  • Free parking
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • 28 days holiday (pro rata for part time) with the option to purchase an additional week. 
  • Paid day off for your birthday

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