Sainsbury Centre
Gallery Technician
Ref: TC913
Salary on appointment will be £26,338 per annum, with an annual increment up to £29,959 per annum.
The Sainsbury Centre is a world-renowned art museum with one of the most celebrated collections in the UK. It is famous for creating a unique perspective on how art can foster cultural dialogue and exchange. The Centre was founded in 1973 by Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury, built on the gift of their extraordinary collection to the University of East Anglia and housed in Sir Norman Foster’s first ever public architectural masterpiece. The vision of our founders was to encourage visitors to have a fundamentally unique museum experience at the Sainsbury Centre. We live by this ambition today and currently our visitors come from all over the world to enjoy a beautiful and dynamic arts landscape across three floors of indoor gallery space and a 20-acre sculpture park stretching out through surrounding meadow, forest, and lake. It is a wonderful place to work.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Gallery Technician to join the Sainsbury Centre team.
Key duties of the role include providing technical support for the Sainsbury Centre’s programme of displays, exhibitions, collections, and events including making exhibition and other furniture, framing, handling, moving, installing works of art and exhibition displays.
You will have experience of working in a museum or gallery in a technical or similar role at a supervisory level as well as competence in using woodwork machinery and knowledge of technical aspects of the installation of exhibitions and displays.
This full-time post is available from 1 August 2025 on an indefinite basis.
Benefits include:
- 34 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays and University Customary days (pro rata for part-time).
- Family and Work-life balance policies including considerable maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption leave.
- Generous pension scheme with life cover for dependants, plus incapacity cover.
- Health and Wellbeing: discounted access to Sportspark facilities, relaxation rooms, 320 acres of rolling parkland, wellbeing walks, Wellbeing Ambassador network, on-campus medical centre including NHS Dentist, Occupational Health and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Campus Facilities: Sportspark, library, nursery, supermarket, post office, bars and catering outlets.
- Exclusive shopping discounts to help cut the cost of household bills, childcare salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and public transport discounts.
- Personal Development: unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning courses, specialist advice and training from our Organisational Development and Professional Learning Team.
Closing date: 9 July 2025
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