M+ Internship -2024/2025 -Summer- Development - Marketing - Museum Development

The Programme

The M+ Internship Programme, supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Hong Kong, is a unique opportunity for those who are interested in developing a career in the museum field.  

You will work closely with the M+ team full time for a period of one year, gaining both practical and theoretical training.

This intake will take place from August 2024 to August 2025.

The Development Intern will support the Individual and Institutional Giving team with prospect research, administrative tasks, translation work, on-site VIP event support, donor database management and any ad-hoc projects as they arise. 

You will be able to:

• conduct prospect research reports through WealthX and online materials.
• assisting administrative tasks such as mass mailings, drafting and translating materials, monitoring event calendars and RSVPs, draft agreements and sponsor proposals, and processing any necessary paperwork related to artwork acquisitions and donations.
• support major exhibition opening receptions, private tours, and lounge talks on-site.
• coordinate with other departments – including but not limited to membership, curatorial, museum director’s office, events, collections and exhibitions, finance, and IT teams – as needed to accomplish the above.
• other Ad-hoc tasks. 

Required Skills and Abilities

You need to:

• be a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
• possess a recognized university degree or equivalent qualification in administration, marketing, journalism, communications, social sciences or related subjects in the humanities.
• have excellent command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese / Mandarin).
• have strong interest in learning more about contemporary visual art and culture.
• be proactive, diligent, highly organized, detail-oriented and comfortable taking on tasks independently and cooperatively working within a team.
• possess some relevant working experience in commercial corporations and museums or nonprofit institutions is preferred but not required. 

M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, we are building one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions.  

Our aim is to create a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century. 

About Us:

Stretching across 40 hectares of reclaimed land, the West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world, blending art, education and open space.  

Its vision is to create a vibrant cultural quarter for Hong Kong where the local arts scene can interact, develop and collaborate. Providing 23 hectares of public open space with two kilometres of vibrant harbour-front promenade, it will also include a variety of arts and cultural facilities that will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances and arts and cultural events.  

A Development Plan for the District, based on well-received Foster + Partner’s Conceptual Plan, was approved by the Chief Executive-in-Council in January 2013. Overlooking the magnificent Victoria Harbour, the District will begin to take shape over the next decade.