Profession cultural centre director

Cultural centre managers plan, organise, and control the operations of establishments that provide artistic, theatrical and other recreational and amenity services.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Artistic

Related professions entertainment, leisure

• Artistic and cultural associate professionals, all other
• Astrologer, fortune-teller or related worker
• Clown, acrobat, magician, hypnotist
• Companion or valet
• Conference or event organiser
• Entertainer
• Host or hostess
• Leisure park manager
• Recreation centre manager
• Recreation program worker for children
• Recreation program worker for leisure, vacation

Knowledge

• Cultural projects

  The purpose, organisation and management of cultural projects and related fundraising actions.

• Corporate social responsibility

  The handling or managing of business processes in a responsible and ethical manner considering the economic responsibility towards shareholders as equally important as the responsibility towards environmental and social stakeholders.

• Budgetary principles

  Principles of estimating and planning of forecasts for business activity, compile regular budget and reports.

Skills

• Manage logistics

  Create logistic framework for transporting goods to customers and for receiving returns, execute and follow up the logistics processes and guidelines.

• Work with cultural venue specialists

  Call upon the competence of other professionals and specialists, from within and outside the organisation, to contribute to activities and provide documents to improve public access to collections and exhibitions.

• Liaise with event sponsors

  Plan meetings with sponsors and event organisers to discuss and monitor upcoming events.

• Promote inclusion

  Promote inclusion in health care and social services and respect diversity of beliefs, culture, values and preferences, keeping in mind the importance of equality and diversity issues.

• Manage supplies

  Monitor and control the flow of supplies that includes the purchase, storage and movement of the required quality of raw materials, and also work-in-progress inventory. Manage supply chain activities and synchronise supply with demand of production and customer.

• Supervise daily information operations

  Direct daily operations of different units. Coordinate program/project activities to assure the respect of costs and time.

• Manage health and safety standards

  Oversee all personnel and processes to comply with health, safety and hygiene standards. Communicate and support alignment of these requirements with the company's health and safety programmes.

• Manage operational budgets

  Prepare, monitor and adjust operational budgets together with the economical/administrative manager/professionals in the arts institute/unit/project.

• Develop cultural activities

  Develop activities adapted to the outreach and/or audience. Take into account difficulties and needs observed and identified from the perspective of enhancing curiosity and general capability to access to art and culture.

• Build community relations

  Establish affectionate and long-lasting relationships with local communities, e.g. by organising special programms for kindergarden, schools and for dissabled and older people, raising awareness and receiving community appreciation in return.

• Follow company standards

  Lead and manage according to the organisation's code of conduct.

• Manage budgets

  Plan, monitor and report on the budget.

• Liaise with cultural partners

  Establish and maintain sustainable partnerships with cultural authorities, sponsors and other cultural institutions.

• Create cultural venue outreach policies

  Draw up outreach policies for the museum and any art facility, and a programme of activities directed at all target audiences. Set up a network of exterior contacts to relay information to target audiences to this end.

• Strive for company growth

  Develop strategies and plans aiming at achieving a sustained company growth, be the company self-owned or somebody else's. Strive with actions to increase revenues and positive cash flows.

• Plan health and safety procedures

  Set up procedures for maintaining and improving health and safety in the workplace.

• Evaluate cultural venue programmes

  Assist with the appraisal and evaluation of museum and any art facility programmes and activities.

• Work within communities

  Establish social projects aimed at community development and active citizen participation.

• Liaise with local authorities

  Maintain the liaison and exchange of information with regional or local authorities.

• Delegate activities

  Delegate activities and tasks to others according to the ability, level of preparation, competence and legal scope of practice. Make sure that people understand what they should do and when they should do it.

• Evaluate cultural venue visitor needs

  Assess the needs and expectations of museum and any art facility visitors in order to regularly develop new programmes and activities.

• Develop promotional tools

  Generate promotional material and collaborate in the production of promotional text, videos, photos, etc. Keep previous promotional material organised.

• Develop cultural policies

  Develop programmes which aim to promote cultural activities and cultural engagement in a community or nation, and which regulate the organisation of cultural institutions, facilities and events.

• Manage staff

  Manage employees and subordinates, working in a team or individually, to maximise their performance and contribution. Schedule their work and activities, give instructions, motivate and direct the workers to meet the company objectives. Monitor and measure how an employee undertakes their responsibilities and how well these activities are executed. Identify areas for improvement and make suggestions to achieve this. Lead a group of people to help them achieve goals and maintain an effective working relationship among staff.

• Organise cultural events

  Arrange events in cooperation with local stakeholders which promote local culture and heritage.

• Establish daily priorities

  Establish daily priorities for staff personnel. Effectively deal with multi-task workload.

• Create cultural venue learning strategies

  Create and develop a learning strategy to engage the public in line with the ethos of the museum or the art facility.

• Promote cultural venue events

  Work together with museum or any art facility staff to develop and promote its events and programme.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB