Curator (Communities)

Our employees are at the very heart of the services we provide to the community, to help us achieve our ambitions, we want the best possible team. In return, we will make sure you are rewarded with a great range of staff benefits to support you in and out of work. 

Kirklees Museums and Galleries are looking for an experienced museum curator to help us shape and deliver our ambitious programme as part of our Arts Council England funded National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) vision.  

Working as part of our Curatorial and Technical team, the Curator (Communities) will bring a strong community focus to collecting, cataloguing and interpretation of our excellent and wide-ranging museum collections to better reach a broader, more diverse audience. You will contribute to making a difference to people’s lives by supporting the museums team to help people connect with the place they live through collections and inclusive stories.

Ideally with a subject specialism relevant to Kirklees’ collections and/or experience of oral history collecting, you will be an experienced museum curator with an understanding of collections management and interpretation. You will forge links with different communities to collect stories and objects, and help co-curate exhibitions that engage with new audiences and under-represented groups.  An initial focus of this post will be the development of cross-cultural interpretation across our three museum sites that explores ways of bringing a range of voices into our museums and improving diverse representation within our permanent collections.

This is an exciting role within a small, enthusiastic and hard-working team of curators.  You will bring valuable specialist expertise to the team and be able to share your enthusiasm with audiences. You will be flexible, organised, work well under pressure and be able to juggle conflicting demands. You will be supported by a skilled and experienced Museums and Galleries team and rewarded with access to fantastic collections and a wonderful opportunity to develop a ground-breaking programme for Kirklees.

The role is based in Kirklees Museums and Galleries, who are proud to have been awarded Arts Council England (ACE) National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) status for 2023-26, one of eight NPOs in Kirklees, and this role is externally funded from that award.  As an NPO, our funding is thanks to tax-payers and it plays a huge part in supporting our work.

Proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation 2023-26