Ever dreamt of turning your undying adoration of Taylor Swift into a career? Well, now you can!
London's Victoria and Albert Museum are recruiting a professional Taylor Swift adviser, who will share insights into Swiftie fan culture and the memorabilia associated with the 14-time Grammy-winning megastar, ahead of the European leg of her Eras tour.
According to the V&A website, they're “currently recruiting five ‘Superfan Advisors’, to help us learn more about our collection at the V&A as well as the current cultural trends that will inform the future of museum collecting.”
The ad continues: "Our curators are custodians of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. As such, we’re always looking to learn more about our collection, whilst acting as cultural trendspotters on what to collect next. So, we want to hear from you about your hyper niche interest and why it is important to the history of Art and Design, and the future of creativity.
We've been loving Taylor for quite some time, time, time.
Successful candidates will meet curatorial experts at the V&A, share knowledge about their specialist subject, learn about the history of these objects and why they are relevant to art, design and the future of creativity. Candidates will also have the chance to go behind the scenes at the V&A to view relevant items from the collection."
Museum director Dr Tristram Hunt said: "These new advisory roles will help us celebrate and discover more about the enormous, and often surprising, creative diversity on offer at the V&A, as well as helping us to learn more about the design stories that are relevant to our audiences today."
It's part of the museum's bid to appeal to a Gen-Z audience, with ‘Superfan Advisor’ roles also available in Emojis, Crocs and Drag.
For the successful candidate, the V&A will cover “reasonable travel costs to the museum” and they will also receive a V&A membership. However, it's worth nothing that this is a zero hour contract, part-time vacancy, meaning the V&A isn't obliged to provide any minimum working hours. The salary is also listed as ‘competitive incentives’. So basically Swifties, please don't quit your day job for this role.
You can apply on the V&A's website and the job ad closes on 7th March.
