Profession cultural facilities manager

Cultural facilities managers direct the operations of facilities that provide cultural services such as theatre, movies and music. They plan and organise the daily operations of the related staff and facilities and ensure the organisation follows the latest developments in its field. They coordinate the different departments of the facility and manage the correct use of resources, policies and budgets.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional
• Enterprising / Investigative

Knowledge

• 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.

• Cultural projects

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

Skills

• 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.

• 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.

• Manage budgets

  Plan, monitor and report on the budget.

• 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.

• Organise cultural events

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

• 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.

• Plan health and safety procedures

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

• 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.

• Follow company standards

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

• Supervise daily information operations

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

• 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.

• Establish daily priorities

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

• Promote cultural venue events

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

• 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.

• Evaluate cultural venue programmes

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

• 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.

• Manage logistics

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

• Manage cultural facility

  Manage the daily operations of a cultural facility. Organise all activities and coordinate the different departments functioning within a cultural facility. Develop a plan of action and arrange the necessary funds.

• 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.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB