PA to Successful Art Dealer/Collector

PA to Successful Art Dealer/Collector

Job Reference 6/4320/art
Added : 01/12/2023
Expiry : 29/12/2023
£50,000 to £55,000 DOE
London
Contract Type: Perm

My client is a BIG name in the art world, well-connected, great fun and enormously successful. A delightful man with a great sense of humour and a passion for what he does. I am looking for an experienced PA to be his right hand, to manage his business and personal administration. You will need to have worked in or have a keen interest in the art world, but this is not an opportunity to become an art dealer.

You will be working from a home studio in South West London.

• Right-hand PA support to the principal
• Proactive inbox, meeting set up, diary, travel
• Bookkeeping/VAT logging, banking
• Managing the ‘estates’ (collections) of several deceased artists – administration, liaising with family, shipping, selling etc.
• Property management for the principal – has 5 properties in UK
• Paying household bills/utilities etc.
• Day-to-day support for the principal
• Attend art fairs, only occasionally at weekends
• Gatekeeping
• Artwork sales and other art-related research
• Adhoc projects
Candidate
• Experience in both business and Private PA support
• Happy working from boss’s home studio
• Happy to bring order to the principal’s chaos
• Highly organised, need to upwardly manage
• Trustworthy, very discreet, proactive
• Sense of humour, positive, confident, agile, muck-in