The Gallery Assistant supports the daily operations of a gallery by ensuring exhibitions run smoothly, providing visitor service, and assisting with administrative, curatorial, and event-related duties. This position suits an organised, proactive, and personable individual with a strong interest in the visual arts.

Meets and greets visitors, and provides general information about gallery or museum policies and programmes; controls visitors' access to exhibits and monitors entrances, exits, stairwells and other public areas; ensures safety of collections; maintains records of attendance, memberships, donations and other statistics as needed; conducts detailed tours of exhibits for visitors, providing context and background information to enhance their understanding of the material on display; may assist with installing and dismantling exhibits.

• The Gallery Assistant primarily works on-site within the gallery space, which may include exhibition areas, storage rooms, and office environments.
• The role occasionally requires evening and weekend work to support exhibition openings, events, and special programmes.

• Sedentary to light work demand level. The position involves frequent standing or walking for extended periods, particularly while monitoring exhibitions or assisting visitors.
• Manually or electronically enters customer purchases into the till, receives cash, cheques, eftpos and credit card payments and processes these and issues receipts. May issue customers sales invoices. Lifts and passes items purchased across the scanner (where used) and may need to wrap or pack goods.
• Stretching and/or twisting movements are not a typical part of the role although likely to be required occasionally when reaching up or down to shelves or rails for merchandise.
• Bending, squatting or crouching movements may be required occasionally.
• Lifting, pulling or carrying requirements may be required occasionally.
• Repetitive hand and finger movements are not a key feature of this role.
• Driving is not likely to be required.
• Use of office hand-held equipment such as pens or calculators will be occasional.
• Mental skills necessary include communication, memory, recording and calculating skills.

• An NZQF Level 2 or 3 qualification or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 4). In some instances, no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.

• There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.