Jobs at the Whitworth
Current Jobs and Opportunities
Visitor Team Coordinator (Two Posts Available)
As the Visitor Team Coordinator, you will provide supervision of a large team of Visitor Team Assistants over a 7-day week rota to create welcoming and memorable experiences for our visitors. You will devise complex daily rota to ensure the gallery’s public areas are correctly staffed, operational procedures are followed, and where appropriate be the first point of call for team enquires such as sickness, and absence.
Additionally, you will provide day-to-day access, care, and safety to our visitors, as well as ensure our building and collections are secure. You will be required to open and lock up the building maintaining the appearance of public spaces, so they are smart, tidy, and safe for our visitors to enjoy.
You will also be friendly, approachable, and knowledgeable in your demeanour, supporting the Visitor Team Assistants to be the connection between our visitors, collections, gardens, and building. You will achieve this by being encouraging Visitor Team Assistants to engage with all our visitors in an intelligent and friendly way, as well as actively capturing visitor feedback and championing access, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
See full details about the job here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=34112
Applications close on Friday 22 January 2026.
Textiles Conservator
The Whitworth is one of the UK’s leading and most dynamic university art galleries, and home to pre-eminent collections of historic, modern, and contemporary art, textiles and wallpapers.
We are recruiting for the role of Conservator (Textiles) with responsibility for the care and physical well-being of all textile-based material across all our collections, encompassing post-Pharaonic textiles from Egypt, European textiles and vestments from 15th to 18th centuries, Mediterranean and Islamic embroideries from 17th to 19th centuries, work of William Morris and other Arts & Crafts designers, 20th century British furnishing textiles and contemporary art textiles.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the Whitworth at an exciting time. The role works collaboratively with conservation, collection care, and curatorial colleagues, as well as freelance specialists, with the long-term aim to preserve and increase public access to our collections, delivered through exhibitions, handling and public engagement activities, research and study visits, loans out programmes, and through national and international touring projects.
See full details about the job here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job/JobDetail?JobId=34010
Applications close on Friday 23 January 2026.
Visitor Team Assistant (Five Posts Available)
The Visitor Team is the connection between our visitors, collections, building and surrounding parks and gardens. Members of the Visitor Team are friendly, professional, approachable, knowledgeable, and make people feel comfortable during their time here. This includes welcoming visitors from a variety of backgrounds with a wide range of needs and giving every one the information they require to help them get the most from their visit.
Visitor Team Assistants therefore must stay up to date with the latest news and event information, as well as what’s happening across Manchester’s wider cultural scene.Visitor Team Assistants provide day-to-day access, care, and safety for all our visitors as well as the security of our building and collections. This is done by working closely with our Building and Operations Team to ensure everything looks smart, tidy and is safe for the public to enjoy.
Visitor Team Assistants are actively involved with First Aid, Health and Safety, Access as well as Fire Evacuation procedures to ensure this occurs.Visitor Team Assistants also deliver guided tours on various topics and themes as well as gather important data by collecting surveys from our visitors. In addition, Visitor Team Assistants support events such as weddings, concerts, and exhibition previews, whilst proactively collaborating with other teams and partners who run a whole range of programmes and activities across the gallery.
We are a team that brings an enthusiasm to all forms of art and does so by proactively engaging with our visitors both on and offline. Every member of the Visitor Team must enjoy being part of a team and feel confident enough to actively encourage donations, capture additional feedback as well as deal with difficult situations. The Visitor Team’s working pattern covers a 7-day week schedule that repeats itself on a 4-week basis and includes regular evening and weekend work.
See full details about the job here: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=34255
Applications close on Friday 30 January 2026.
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