Free, with no account at all
No registration, no tier, no cap. You open the page and read the list. This board does not match that, and it is the honest reason a careers service might link them and not us.
CuratorSearch vs Leicester Jobs Desk
The Jobs Desk is run by the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and describes itself as the UK's most extensive free vacancy listing source for museums and galleries. It appears on more UK university careers pages than any other museum board, and deservedly so.
| Leicester Jobs Desk | CuratorSearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Run by | University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies | A working curator |
| Coverage | United Kingdom, with some international posts | Europe, UK and North America — 180 live roles, 13 in UK & Ireland |
| Access | Free, no account | Free to browse a sample; full board on a paid subscription |
| Pay in adverts | Salary or salary range required on all paid adverts; unpaid internships not accepted | Whatever the institution stated — 22% of live roles do; every figure archived permanently |
| Where listings come from | Employers post to the board | Gathered daily from 400+ institutions’ own careers pages |
Facts about Leicester Jobs Desk read from their own site on 6 September 2026. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and it will be corrected.
What Leicester Jobs Desk does better
Ethical rules with teeth
Every paid advert must show a salary or range and a closing date, and adverts for unpaid internships are refused outright. That is a stance, enforced at the point of posting, and it does more for pay transparency in the UK than any dataset does.
University-run, not commercial
Nobody is trying to convert you. It is a public service from a museum studies department, and it has been running for years.
Where this board is different
Continental Europe
The Jobs Desk is UK-centred. Roles at institutions in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Poland or the Nordics rarely reach it, and those are advertised on the institutions' own pages, usually in the local language. That is what this board reads every day.
Pulled automatically, so nothing depends on an employer submitting
The Jobs Desk lists what institutions send in. This site checks 400+ careers pages whether or not anyone thought to submit anything, which catches the roles that never get syndicated.
The pay record outlives the advert
Their salary rule makes each advert transparent while it is up. We keep every figure after the role closes, as a permanent, citable archive of what the sector advertised.
Being straight about it
If you work only in the UK, the Jobs Desk is free, thorough and run to a higher ethical standard on adverts than this board can enforce. Use it. The case for adding this one is continental Europe and the pay archive, not that we do their job better.
UK-only search: the Jobs Desk, free, no reason to add anything. Looking across Europe: use both.
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