Profession cultural policy officer

Cultural policy officers develop and implement policies to improve and promote cultural activities and events. They manage resources and communicate with the public and media in order to facilitate interest in cultural programs and emphasize their importance in a community.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional

Knowledge

• Government policy implementation

  The procedures related to the application of government policies at all levels of public administration.

• Cultural projects

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

Skills

• Provide improvement strategies

  Identify root causes of problems and submit proposals for effective and long-term solutions.

• Manage government policy implementation

  Manage the operations of the implementation of new government policies or changes in existing policies on a national or regional level as well as the staff involved in the implementation procedure.

• Establish collaborative relations

  Establish a connection between organisations or individuals which may benefit from communicating with one another in order to facilitate an enduring positive collaborative relationship between both parties.

• 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.

• Maintain relationships with government agencies

  Establish and maintain cordial working relationships with peers in different governmental agencies.

• 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.

• Liaise with cultural partners

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

• Liaise with local authorities

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

• Advise on legislative acts

  Advise officials in a legislature on the propositioning of new bills and the consideration of items of legislation.

• Create solutions to problems

  Solve problems which arise in planning, prioritising, organising, directing/facilitating action and evaluating performance. Use systematic processes of collecting, analysing, and synthesising information to evaluate current practice and generate new understandings about practice.

• Maintain relations with local representatives

  Maintain good relations with representatives of the local scientific, economic and civil society.

• Establish relationship with the media

  Adopt a professional attitude to respond effectively to the demands of the media.

• Develop media strategy

  Create the strategy on the type of content to be delivered to the target groups and which media to be used, taking into account the characteristics of the target audience and the media that will be used for content delivery.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB