We're Hiring! Events Coordinator

Autograph is looking for someone who is curious, confident in communicating with many different people, has strong practical event management and production skills, and the capability to help set up and deliver events in a wide range of places from schools to our galleries. If you are interested in learning about public perspectives on art and culture and helping to shape debate, apply to join our friendly team based at Autograph’s gallery in Shoreditch. 

Through regular events, Autograph connects audiences and participants with the themes and ideas explored through the gallery’s exhibitions, commissions and collection, and to widen conversations and ideas about photography, identity, representation, archives and social justice.

Our aim is to:
• Introduce audiences to a wide network of thinkers and makers.
• Foster cross-disciplinary conversation.
• Create welcoming and accessible spaces and opportunities for people to come together and engage with contemporary photography and visual culture.
• Encourage debate and feedback.

Events take place on site, off site and online. They include talks, workshops, occasional conferences, screenings, performances, tours, activity in school and community settings, for teachers and educators at our galleries, and open calls. They are delivered by Autograph alone and in partnership.

In this role you will support research activity, delivery, marketing, logistics and operational coordination which brings together artists, writers, researchers, performers, educators and community practitioners together for memorable encounters with our audiences.

You will work closely with the Engagement Curator and the Interim Events Curator who together lead the strategic development of public events, in dialogue with our wider team of curatorial and marketing colleagues. 

You need to be equally comfortable both setting up a small event for teacher networks at our gallery, as you are with assisting in the delivery of a conference for 100 people or a VIP event at an art fair. You’ll coordinate event marketing to engage many different audiences, including people most marginalised from mainstream arts and culture offers.