The Belkin is now accepting applications for the following summer positions:

UBC Students – Work Learn

Gallery Attendant (Work Learn CareersOnline Job ID 885434) – 2 positions (max 20 hrs per week)

This position monitors the gallery and exhibitions, provides information to visitors, assists with events, programs and research, and with tours of the Outdoor Art Collection.

Public Programs Assistant (Work Learn CareersOnline Job ID 885437) – 1 position (max 20 hrs per week)

This position works with the gallery’s Manager of Public Programs on the development and production of public programs, tours and educational resource materials.

Special Project Curatorial Assistant (Work Learn CareersOnline Job ID 885442) – 1 position (max 20 hrs per week)

This position works with the gallery’s Curator of Outdoor Art on the research, coordination and programming for the Outdoor Art artist-in-residence and the Outdoor Art Collection.

These positions are posted on CareersOnline from March 8-28, 2021 and are open to UBC students only. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please visit CareersOnline for full details including eligibility, job description, requirements, wage/hours and application instructions.

Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions

pUblic Programs Project Assistant (dependent on funding) – 1 position (35 hrs per week)

This position assists the Belkin Gallery in researching exhibitions and in the planning and delivery of public programs. View job posting for details including job description, requirements, wage/hours and application instructions. The application deadline for this position is Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Visit Young Canada Works for eligibility and program details.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the BC Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

The Public Programs Project Assistant position is dependent on funding from the Canadian Heritage Young Canada Works program. Please note that in accordance with program eligibility criteria, applicants must be 30 years of age or younger at the start of employment, legally entitled to work in Canada and be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or have been granted refugee status in Canada. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is mandated to research, exhibit, collect, publish, educate and develop programs in the field of contemporary art and in contemporary art approaches to the practice of art history and criticism. The Belkin houses the University’s growing collection of over 5,000 works of art – one of the largest public collections of art in the province – as well as a substantial Archive with items relating to the post-war history of art in Vancouver and the avant-garde narratives of the 1960s and 1970s.