Editorial Content Manager

Alchemy is partnering with an established and successful contemporary art gallery in London, which is seeking to appoint an Editorial Content Manager.

Responsibilities for the role include:

• Overseeing the creative process and writing/editing of content, utilised for press releases, previews, social media, and online exhibitions.
• Collaborating with artists, studios, liaisons, and Digital and Communications management at the gallery to achieve quality results.
• Creation and maintenance for artist biographies to populate artist pages on websites.
• Managing, conducting research, and preparing sales dossiers and preview materials for exhibitions and art fairs.
• Participating in writing applications for art fairs with the directors and artist liaisons.
• Creating content for handouts and wall vinyls for the gallery.
• Editing and proofreading all writing for the London location of the gallery.
• Managing the website and other digital communications' written content., as well as digital invitations and newsletters, creating or revising written text, and overseeing all digital mailings.
• Working on video material - communicating with the director, conducting Q&As and interviews with the artist, reviewing edits with the artist liaison, giving detailed feedback, and coordinating with the Head of Digital for London on the production brief, scheduling, and sign-off.

Requirements:

• Background in art history, ideally with in-depth understanding of contemporary art.
• Proven experience of working at a contemporary art institution or commercial gallery.
• Academic proficiency, such as writing offers for artwork dossiers.
• Outstanding English language ability, writing, and editing skills.
• Capacity to create readable texts for various gallery objectives, such as press releases, wall text, newsletter articles, and website entries.
• A keen sense of detail and solid proofreading abilities.