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Description of role & details:

ArtAncient is a leading London gallery specialising in Ancient Art and Natural History. We are looking for a friendly, confident, and approachable Art Fair Assistant to join our team for the duration of Frieze Masters. This is an exciting opportunity to work at one of the world’s most prestigious art fairs, representing a leading gallery by providing information to visitors on works ranging from rare antiquities to remarkable pieces of natural history.

You’ll be working as part of a small team, in a fast-paced, high-profile environment where presentation and professionalism is key. The role is suited to someone who has a deep interest in historical artefacts, a natural talent for engaging with people, and confidence to assist in a customer-focused and sales-oriented setting.

Type of position: Art Fair Assistant – Frieze Masters 2025

Organisation name: ArtAncient

City: Regents Park, London

Application deadline: 4 September, 2025

Recruiter/employer’s name: Olivia Longhurst

Recruiter/employer’s email: olivia@artancient.com

Salary: £17.50 per hour

Required skills and experience:
Degree in art history or related field. Strong interest in cultural history, and particularly ancient art and/or natural history.

Key Responsibilities: 

Before the fair:

• Review fact sheets provided and conduct wider research to gain in-depth understanding of objects to be displayed.

During the fair: 

• Greet visitors to our stand warmly and professionally, acting as the first point of contact.
• Assist with client engagement, answering questions and providing information about artworks on display.
• Help to maintain the presentation of the stand throughout the fair.
• Assist with logistical tasks where required.

Required skills and experience: 

• A warm, confident, and approachable manner, and a willingness to help with any given task.
• Excellent communication skills and a professional appearance.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure in a busy environment.
• Strong interest in cultural history, and particularly ancient art and/or natural history. Degree in art history or related field preferred.
• Previous experience in art fairs, galleries, luxury retail, or client-facing roles preferred.

Fluent in English, with other language skills desirable.

Required availability:

15th October 2025 – 11am – 7pm

16th October 2025 – 11am – 7pm

17th October 2025 – 11am – 7pm

18th October 2025 – 11am – 7pm

19th October 2025 – 11am – 6pm

Please ensure you are available to work all the above.

How to apply/contact: Please send your CV and cover letter to olivia@artancient.com

Description of role & details:

Scott & Co is a communications agency founded on a belief in the transformative power of culture. Art, design, architecture, food and travel change the way we think, feel and even imagine the future.

Our work brings together the people, places and ideas that drive culture forward. We start conversations and cultivate new ideas from the world’s leading visionaries – from global superstars to independent and underrepresented voices. Working at the intersection of creativity and change, we develop projects that apply the lens of culture to promote innovation as well as social and environmental justice.

Role

The role is for an Account Executive to join our client-servicing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for an intelligent, creative and ambitious individual to establish themselves in cultural communications, as part of a dynamic and growing agency. The role incorporates training and mentoring from an experienced senior team who have worked with leading cultural and creative brands.

Type of position: Full-time

Organisation name: Scott & Co Consulting Ltd 

City: London / hybrid

Application deadline: 29 August, 2025

Recruiter/employer’s name: Scott & Co Consulting Ltd / Ellie Muir

Recruiter/employer’s email: ellie@scott-andco.com

Salary: £28,000 pa

Required experience: 6-12 months

Key Responsibilities:

• Searching, formatting, sharing and evaluation of published editorial secured for clients: this forms an essential part of the agency’s communication with its clients and its reporting and evaluation service.
• Recording and administration of editorial progress across clients, including generation of end of month client account activity reports.
• Administrative support with key agency documents.
• Contributing to the company’s marketing and social media strategy, in consultation with other team members, to include: content scheduling, content production, ideas generation, quarterly newsletter editing and copywriting.
• Editorial outreach on behalf of clients to print, broadcast and digital media in territories to be defined per client agreement with expectation to secure targeted editorial at the highest quality and frequency, with direction from Account Directors and Account Managers.
• Communication with target media which may include press release dissemination, email pitches, in person meetings, social media outreach.
• Media familiarisation, to comprise strategic media reading, generation of media lists and ongoing engagement with and updating of the company’s in-house and subscription-based media databases.
• Execution of media requests to include distribution of imagery, information and, where relevant, setting up of interviews and media briefings.
• Generation of press materials to include press release copywriting, photography and image
• procurement and, drafting and designing other materials as required, in line with the agency’s house style.
• Where relevant, support for client events, to include invitation administration, liaison with photographers, press release mailings to media and on-site assistance.

Desired Experience and Skills

• Passion, interest and regular familiarisation with contemporary culture, in particular visual art, in London and internationally.
• At least six months to one year’s prior experience in a communications role.
• An understanding of and interest in wider cultural trends.
• Excellent people and social skills alongside drive and ambition to build contacts and knowledge.
• An ability to be strategic, creative, extremely well organised and commercially minded at the same time.
• Strong written skills and an understanding of and ability to deploy different tones of voice across different media (e.g. Instagram vs a press release).
• Interest in and experience of using social media platforms, either personally or professionally.
• Professionalism matched with personality.

How to apply/contact: To apply: please email a CV to ellie@scott-andco.com

The European Investment Bank is seeking a highly motivated and skilled applicant at Master’s level or above with availability to work in Luxembourg from September 2025 onwards. This role involves arts programming and cultural placemaking, as well as publishing and events co-ordination.

The EIB art collection is made up of over 1000 artworks. It is complemented by an Arts & Culture programme that brings the collection to life for European citizens and stakeholders across the continent.

Description of role & details: The service provider will provide administrative support to the EIB Art and Culture team with the following tasks:
• Contribute to the forthcoming scientific catalogue of the EIB art collection.
• As a matter of priority, negotiate the reproduction rights with the artists, the galleries
representing them, or the artists’ agencies for the forthcoming scientific catalogue of the
EIB art collection.
• Contribute to the Artists Development Programme (ADP) cycle (EIB artists’
residency and mentoring scheme).
• Draft, publish, and disseminate the ADP calls for applications; coordinate and execute the
ADP promotional campaign.
• Assist Head of A&C with initial ADP application review and creation of longlists and
shortlists for jury voting; create jury books.
• Assist with artist requests during the ADP residency period.
• Coordinate the end of residency exhibition in partnership with EIB internal
services and coordinate finissage events.
• Contribute to staff engagement initiatives, including a potential staff photography competition.
• Coordinate staff outings to local cultural and historical sites.
• Assist in the day-to-day management of the EIB art collection.
• Regularly update the artwork database (TMS Gallery Systems).
• Conduct visits to the artothèque for senior staff.
• Assist with coordinating museum loans.
• Participate in and coordinate stakeholder engagement activities and the activation of the
EIB art collection more broadly.
• Conduct guided tours to internal and external stakeholders.
• Draft and edit communications materials related to the A&C programme.
• Typeset and circulate the A&C newsletter.
• Produce intranet and online articles, social media content, presentations for senior staff and
VIPs, artwork labels, and email campaigns

Type of position: Full time. Estimated start date: TBC, starting in Q3 2025. Duration: 1 Year

Organisation name: The European Investment Bank (EIB)

Background on the EIB: The European Investment Bank (EIB or the Bank) is the financing institution of the European Union (EU). Created by the Treaty of Rome, its shareholders are the Member States of the EU, and its Board
of Governors is composed of the Finance Ministers of these States. The EIB enjoys its own legal personality and financial autonomy within the Community system. The mission of the EIB is to contribute, by financing sound investment, to the policy objectives of the EU, as laid down in its statutes and in decisions of the European Council. The EIB contributes towards the integration, balanced development and economic and social cohesion of the Members of the EU. To this end, it raises on the markets substantial volumes of funds that aim at financing capital projects according to the objectives of the EU with the most favourable financial terms. Outside the EU the EIB implements the financial components of agreements concluded under European development aid and cooperation policies.

More background information about the EIB may be found on the website www.eib.org.

The Arts & Culture team supports the promotion of artistic and cultural activities in Europe by managing the EIB art collection internally and externally, through exhibitions, loans, art commissions, open days and thematic events. Yearly artists’ residencies are also organised to support budding talent. Arts & Culture also promotes the safeguarding of cultural heritage through consultancy activities. Lastly, it coordinates staff engagement activities related to culture and arts.

City: Mainly at EIB Luxembourg premises

Application deadline: 11.59 pm, 31 August 2025

Salary: Daily rate: 220€ day
• Payment will be made based on the above daily rate, including fees and expenses.
• The maximum budget for this assignment (including fees & expenses) is EUR 49.990,00.  Financial Proposals exceeding the maximum budget will be rejected.

Required skills and experience:
• Master’s degree, preferably in PPE/public policy/cultural affairs and/or art history/cultural management;
• Complementary studies in international affairs and/or relations, or public administration would be an advantage;
• Less than 2 years’ relevant professional experience, gained with international organisations, philanthropy, cultural industry players or corporates;
• Demonstrable experience in the implementation and/or coordination of projects, in the management of conflicting priorities;
• Demonstrable analytical skills with capacity to provide sound judgement on issues within own area of expertise, and the ability to articulate this in spoken and written communication;
• Excellent drafting skills;
• Excellent command of standard computer tools, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint and GED; mastery of Canva and Photoshop would be an advantage;
• Excellent command of arts management databases, preferably TMS Gallery Systems;
• Ability to autonomously manage projects and deal with conflicting priorities

Language skills

• Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of other EU languages, particularly French, would be an asse

How to apply/contact: 

Please send a CV and 500-word motivation letter to arts@eib.org by 11.59pm on 31 August 2025. Interviews will take place online in the first two weeks of September.

Description of role & details: 

A new Gallery, Harvey Horswell, is opening in London.

Their first exhibition will be in St. James’s, London in October. They are looking for an assistant to the director to work full time in the gallery during the exhibition.  Between now and then, they are looking for a research assistant administrator, who can work two to three days a week from home and later in an office space as necessary.

The role would suit someone accomplished at research, writing and organisation. They will be creating filing systems, preparing labels and tear sheets on all of the art works.  It is hoped they will be able to run the gallery’s Instagram accounts and load the website.  The gallery will be selling a large international collection of Orientalist paintings, so an interest in this subject is desired.  Experience isn’t required as there is a team of advisors to train and help. This would suit someone who would like to fully engage with the gallery experience. They are looking for someone who is organised and enthusiastic, with a high level of written and spoken English.

Type of position: Part time – 2 to 3 days a week, culminating in 2 weeks full time in October

Organisation name: Harvey Horswell Ltd

City: London

Application deadline: ASAP, immediate start desired

Recruiter/employer’s name: Cem Guler

Recruiter/employer’s email: cemnesimiguler@gmail.com

Salary: £14 per hour

Required skills and experience: NA

How to apply/contact: Please send your CV and cover letter to cemnesimiguler@gmail.com