Ruben Salgado Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

At V&A East, I manage the planning and delivery of the contemporary programme in response to the strategic vision of the curatorial team. This includes: - Managing and maintaining oversight of the programme calendar and project delivery across the pre-opening live programme and post-opening commissions programme.- Devising, curating and managing both internal and external strands of the pre-opening programme, working to draw out opportunities informed by local organisations, artists and partners.- Working with the Chief Curator to establish team requirements to deliver programmes, assigning events and projects as needed to ensure initiatives are delivered within schedule and budget parameters.- Overseeing programme processes, including reviewing artist rates, commission agreements, health & safety information and contracting processes. - Collaborating with wider curatorial and learning teams on the identification, programming and delivery of large-scale projects and commissions.- Collaborating on the preparation of funding applications and reporting, as well as supporting partnership building.- Managing programme proposals from artists, in collaboration with the wider team.- Managing the contemporary programme budget.- Coordinating all programming information for press announcement.- Collaborating with marketing and press teams to identify and reach target audiences for the programme.- Working closely with the curatorial team to support and maintain excellent relationships with commissioned artists.

London, England, United Kingdom

I produce and project manage all aspects of Friday Lates, Festivals, Biennales and other one-off events, installations and displays within the Contemporary Programme. I am the Programming Representative of the V&A Redesign Steering Group and I chair the museum's Events Producers Working Group

I led an extensive operational transformation readjusting processes and procedures to the new Recovery Programme of the V&A. I implemented a new managerial structure through 3 national lockdowns and consecutive re-mobilisations. I line managed 30+ staff members working from home whilst navigating redundancy consultations affecting all members of the organisation. I designed a sustainability plan for the department. I joined the first iteration of the Museum’s Anti-Racism Task Force as an employee representative, setting up a series of recommendations for the Executive Board to tackle down institutional racism from top down. I devised and delivered innovative training programmes for the largest team in the Museum on Covid safety, fire strategy, gallery reporting and a new visitor engagement programme of gallery talks and roving positions, maximising revenue and visitor experience at zero-cost, whilst inspiring team members to further engage with their job and the collection.

London, United Kingdom

I had regular site management responsibility, overseeing the whole Museum campus and maintaining a high level of customer service and visitor experience to 4million people a year. I monitored and supervised the broad and diverse logistical needs of 7 miles of galleries on a daily basis through operations and project management. I coordinated the largest staffing operation in the museum, scheduling work to 8 supervisors, 150 Gallery Assistants (+ 80 casual staff) and 420 volunteers. I line managed a team of 27 members of staff through 2 departmental restructures in less than 3 years. I championed access and diversity across the museum, delivering weekly innovative training programmes around the museum's public programme and its permanent collection. I had overall responsibility for income generation of temporary exhibition ticket sales, onsite donations, public programme paid visitor offer, membership and new income generating visitor activities.

London, United Kingdom

I worked as a Exhibitions and Galleries Supervisor overseeing daily operations and coaching staff members on visitor engagement and object care standards such as: reporting of object damage; temporary removals and loans; object safety and environmental conditions; display standards such as lighting, dusting, labelling, positioning and dirt; and pest-related concerns. I managed visitor feedback and coordinated their review and follow up on all areas of public engagement, interpretation and accessibility. I devised departmental toolkits on conflict resolution to ensure staff safety and visitors needs were put at first. I coordinated ticketing systems and managed exhibitions revenue, visitor footfall and capacity management for several exhibitions, including Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion, and Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, among others. I created and launched the ongoing learning and development programme FLIP for Gallery Assistants to engage further with the visitor and the collection.

London, United Kingdom

Led regular tours of our collection engaging with the provision of a gender/sexuality-themed public programme that lies at the core of the V&A’s commitment with LGBTQ audiences. As part of the LGBTQ Working Group at the museum I also co-produced events and research about interpretation, terminology, inclusion and diversity. I looked at the ways in which visitors themselves interpret and make sense of museum objects on the basis of their own identities and lived experience.

London, United Kingdom

Outreached new volunteers from different ethnic and community backgrounds currently underrepresented in our Volunteer team, researching and directly approaching community, volunteer and job centres from London local boroughs that have a large global majority population to promote our Visitor Experience and Learning Volunteer roles. I reached out to new audiences outside the museum through community workshops, events, tours and public talks.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Culture, Policy And Management

Supported by an advisory group that includes senior figures from Arts Council England, the Barbican, the Museums Association and the V&.

Bachelor’S Degree, Philosophy, Licenciatura

I gained the ability to compare and contrast approaches and analyses regarding the nature of human experience and its various contexts.

Bachelor’S Degree, Social And Philosophical Foundations Of Education, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Erasmus-Mundus ProgrammeErasmus scholarship offered to study one year abroad in Hamburg. I took modules.