Job Opportunities
The Yale Center for British Art offers a dynamic work environment, with opportunities for staff to enrich and develop their love of the arts while contributing their skills and talents to the mission of the museum. Positions require all levels of education, experience, and training.
Our hiring process is managed by Yale University Human Resources. As a large research university, Yale employs nearly 10,000 staff to support fourteen residential colleges, nine professional schools, three museums, and countless administrative departments. For more information about employment at Yale University, including benefits, visit the university’s employment website.
Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Yale considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
Open Positions
Please note: all positions are in person.
Building Operations Coordinator
Reporting to the Yale Center British Art Director of Operations and Manager of Operations, the Building Operations Coordinator schedules small-scale requests on YCBA Facilities master calendar and coordinates large-scale requests in partnership with the Chief of Operations and the Manager of Operations.
Catalog Librarian
Reporting to the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, the Catalog Librarian creates, enhances, and maintains original and copy cataloging records for a wide range of materials in a variety of formats dating from the sixteenth century to the present, including printed books, maps, manuscripts, serials, auction catalogs, and realia.
Mechanical Systems Specialist
Reporting to the Yale Center British Art (YCBA) Director of Operations, the Mechanical Systems Specialist maintains the internal and external environments of one of the finest university art museums in the world.
Senior Administrative Assistant, Curatorial Division
This position exists within the Curatorial Division, which encompasses the Center’s three curatorial departments—Paintings and Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, and Rare Books and Manuscripts—as well as the Registrar, Installation, Exhibitions, and Publications Departments.
Graduate Museum Fellowships for Yale Graduate Students
These fellowships are open to graduate students at Yale to enhance the educational experiences provided by academic coursework and teaching assistantships at the university, allowing students to extend their range of academic specializations and expertise, and to augment research skills by direct contact with objects in the collections. If necessary, these positions may be offered remotely in accordance with Yale policy.
Learn more here.
Internships
The YCBA, supported by the generosity of Nancy Horton Bartels and her late husband, Henry E. Bartels, is pleased to offer academic-year and summer internships to Yale undergraduates and summer internships for HBCU undergraduates from New Haven County.
Learn more here.
Student Guide Program
The Student Guide Program offers Yale undergraduates from all disciplines the opportunity to engage with original works of art and become familiar with a variety of museum departments.
Learn more here.