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Join the world-renowned V&A as a Team Administrator and contribute to the legacy of art and design
Overview
Salary
£27528 - £31854
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is a global leader in art and design, with a vast collection that spans over 5,000 years of human creativity. As the UK's treasure house for art, architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, and more, the V&A is a vibrant institution dedicated to innovation, research, and making art accessible to all.
- Provide vital administrative support to the Decorative Art & Sculpture department.
- Assist the Keeper in managing the department efficiently.
- Manage diaries, prepare meeting documents, and oversee departmental budgets.
- Ensure smooth department operations and excellent communication internally and externally.
- Experience in administration, coordination, or related areas desirable.
- Proactive and responsive to departmental needs.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a dynamic team.
Enjoy a range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, 29 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, flexible working, discounted V&A exhibition tickets, a subsidized staff canteen, a 25% discount in V&A shops, and more. Participate in professional development opportunities and join our staff diversity networks.
The Role We are seeking a Team Administrator to join the Decorative Art & Sculpture department. The V&A’s Collections Division comprises six curatorial, research, and conservation and collections care & access teams. The curatorial departments are arranged as Decorative Art and Sculpture; Performance, Furniture, Textiles & Fashion; Art, Architecture, Photography and Design; and Asia. The staff in these teams are at the heart of the founding purpose of the museum: to care for, research and develop the collections, to exhibit them to the public, to make them available for study and research, and to broaden access to the collections.
The main purpose of this role is to provide essential administrative and coordination support to the Department and to support the Keeper in the effective management of the Department. Principal duties include diary management, the preparation of meeting papers and the invigilation of departmental budgets. Experience in any of these areas is desirable. This is a productive team, working across research, the development of, interpretation and presentation of the Collection and innovation in the wider work of the V&A. The Team Administrator will need to be proactive in recognising and responding to the needs of the Department to ensure that it runs smoothly and that there is excellent communication with colleagues and stakeholders both across the museum and externally.
The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Benefits Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks
