Gallery Assistant

Bring your passion for people, creativity, and community into a role where every day is different. We’re looking for a friendly and reliable Gallery Assistant to join our Art Gallery team and help deliver welcoming, high-quality front-of-house experiences for our visitors.

As a key member of our small and supportive team, you’ll provide customer service, assist with visitor engagement, support retail and reception tasks, and help maintain the gallery as an inviting and inspiring space for the community. You’ll also contribute to general operations, events, and collection administration.

If you have experience or interest in customer service, visitor services, administration or the arts, we’d love to hear from you.

• Permanent, part-time position.
• Twenty-one (21) hours per week to be worked on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
• Remuneration package of $1,283.96 gross per fortnight with the opportunity to progress to $1,540.75 gross per fortnight based on part-time hours of work + superannuation (12%).
• Penalty rates applicable for hours worked on weekends.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Please note: Rates of pay for all Council employees aged between 15-18 years of age are paid in accordance with the Local Government (State) Award 2023, Clause 32. Junior and Trainee Employment. For further information, please see Council’s Junior Rates of Pay Fact Sheet.

This Position Will Be Responsible To

• Undertake visitor services duties, including customer service, security, and gallery invigilation to maintain the gallery at a high standard for public presentation.
• Perform reception and retail responsibilities and daily housekeeping, including stock management, sales, reconciliation, and database maintenance.
• Support general gallery operations, assist collection administration and event delivery.
• The ability to work independently and be available to consistently work a weekly Saturday shift.

As The Successful Applicant, You Will Hold

• Qualifications and/or experience relevant to the role e.g., Customer Service, Visitor Services, Administration and/or Visual Arts.
• Demonstrated retail and sales experience and ability to deliver quality customer service.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team and independently.

What is next?

Applications close on Friday, 19 June 2026 at 11.59pm AEDST with interviews to be held in the week commencing Monday, 29 June 2026.

If you are interested in this role and would like more information, please contact Megan Monte – Director, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 02 6926 9661.

As part of the recruitment process, pre-employment checks will be conducted in line with requirements of the position.

Selected candidates for this position will be asked to consent to a police check. Please note that people with a criminal record are not discouraged from applying for the position. Each application will be considered on its merit.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://wagga.pulsesoftware.com/Pulse/jobs

https://wagga.nsw.gov.au/the-council/careers/why-work-in-wagga

Council is an inclusive employer. We strive to reflect the community in which we work, as a result we welcome and encourage applications from skilled people from all walks of life. This includes women, men, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with a disability, veterans, sexually and gender diverse people, people with lived experience and people of all ages.