Post: Designer
Salary: Negotiable based on relevant experience
Responsible to: Director/Founder
Contract type: Permanent
SCôP seeks a designer who will be required to be a specialist in design. S/he will be responsible for all material design for the museum and its exhibitions.
Primary responsibilities and duties:
– Design all promotional materials for exhibitions, including all kinds of posters, invitations, and etc
– Design exhibition catalogs
– Design exhibition pamphlets, flyers, brochures and etc
– Design exhibition installation mock-ups
– Design under instructions of Exhibition Department, and follow up with feedbacks
– Design other materials for the museum and improve its publicity while maintaining the VI style
– Website maintenance
– Photograph the exhibition and edit photographs
– Assist other special events
– Other related duties
Requirements and qualifications
Experience and skills:
– Excellent skills in various kinds of softwares, including Photoshop, Illustrator / Coredraw, InDesign / Pagemaker, Lightroom. Proficiency in Premiere / Final Cut would be preferable
– Minimum three years of working experience as a designer
– Proficiency in Mac OS and Windows system
– Excellent knowledge of design, layout as well as printing, binding
– Excellent aesthetic sense for photography, font, color and layout
– Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with colleagues and suppliers
– Ability to improve design according to the feedbacks from Exhibition Department
– Ability to follow up on printing, binding, shipping with suppliers, and work within the exhibition schedule
– Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
– Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines
– Videographing and editing skills would be preferable
– Other IT abilities would be preferable
Knowledge and education:
– Proven experience and/or undergraduate degree of design
– Excellent spoken Chinese and English
To apply:
Kindly send your CV and profolio to info@scop-sh.com
Post: Business Manager
Salary: Negotiable based on relevant experience
Responsible to: Director/Founder
Contract type: Permanent
General Responsibilities
- Developing a business plan and funding strategy for SCôP, as a non-for-profit arts organization that has to maintain a high level international exhibition program; that will balance this with the support of a print sales division that must complement and support program activities
- Maintaining a high level of organization in order to manage the demand of incoming information and requests concerning projects, sponsors, and sales.
- Able to set up and manage the admin processes for dealing with requests and enquiries
- Able to work effectively with external suppliers of prints as well as external sales outlets
- Able to delegate and manage junior staff
- Developing and reviewing development strategy on a regular basis and report findings to the Directors
- Effectively and accurately communicating relevant sales information to the Directors.
- Keeping abreast of progress and quality of works (prints) being provided by suppliers.
- Maintaining clear correspondence with partners and suppliers to assure timely and efficient progress of all tasks.
- Ensuring all invoices are passed to the finance team.
- Maintaining an excellent working knowledge of key industry moments and events.
- Maintaining an excellent working knowledge of photography and the photography market and reporting key information to the rest of the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to undergraduate degree level or relevant level of experience within the workplace
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience in the field of photography (and the arts generally)
- Educated to postgraduate degree level
Experience
- Minimum of 3 year Managerial experience gained working in a gallery, auction house or art fair
- Demonstrative track record of project management and of delivering complex projects to deadlines and on budget
- Experience of working on complex projects
- Experience of research and report writing
- Experience of website maintenance
- Experience of working with galleries
- Experience of working in partnership with external agencies
- One to two years of experience in an administrative support role and/or projects-related role
- Familiarity with project management software, such as Smartsheet
- Technically competent with various software programs, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines
To apply:
Kindly send your CV and other complimentary materials to info@scop-sh.com
