Cultural Project Manager as a freelance consultant or employee
Job description:
The professional profile deals with operation management and coordination of cultural projects (exhibitions, festivals, events), entailing:
- devising the project contents
- planning the event in detail
- drawing up a budget and managing the funds and resources required
- strategic positioning of the cultural product.
Skills and competencies associated to the profile:
To perform the tasks outlined above, one needs:
- experience of the Arts and cultural sector dynamics and mechanisms – whether public or private, Italy-based or international;
- a capacity for self-learning and permanent updating skills;
- knowledge of a foreign language;
- ability to raise resources needed to achieve the target;
- transversal communication and relating skills;
- ability to handle multicultural contexts;
- conflict-solving and handling a time-frame;
- ability to keep abreast of social and technological changes and gear Arts and cultural organizations accordingly;
- planning ability;
- public relations and presentation skills.
Career opportunities:
- public and private Arts and cultural organizations
- non-profit organizations
- companies in the creative industry sector
Cultural manager of cultural organizations
Job description:
- to run the economic and managerial side of Arts and cultural organizations
- to tailor the product or service description to a specific cultural sector
- to coordinate the workflow within an organization
- to ensure that targets are being met.
Skills and competencies associated to the profile:
To perform the tasks outlined above, one needs:
- specialist economic and managerial knowledge;
- capacity for self-learning and permanent updating skills;
- knowledge of a foreign language;
- transversal communication and relating skills;
- ability to handle multicultural contexts;
- conflict-solving and handling a time-frame;
- managerial and organizational skills suited to the main interlocutor (colleagues, artists, fellow professionals, public and private customers),
- ability to keep abreast of social and technological changes and gear Arts and cultural organizations accordingly;
- planning ability;
- public relations and presentation skills.
Career opportunities:
- public and private Arts and cultural organizations
- non-profit organizations
- companies in the creative industry sector
Fundraiser
Job description:
- to raise funds and find sponsors for cultural programmes
- to spot opportunities of fund-raising
- to determine the resources needed to fund a project, and draw up a fund-raising plan
- to handle advertising contracts and commercial agreements
- to help choose means of communication
- to decide membership policy and coordinate partnerships.
Skills and competencies associated to the profile:
To perform the tasks outlined above, one needs:
- specialist economic and managerial knowledge ;
- capacity for self-learning and permanent updating skills;
- knowledge of a foreign language;
- transversal communication and relating skills;
- ability to raise funds for the targets set;
- ability to handle multicultural contexts;
- conflict-solving and handling a time-frame;
- managerial and organizational skills suited to the main interlocutor (colleagues, artists, fellow professionals, public and private customers),
- ability to keep abreast of social and technological changes and gear Arts and cultural organizations accordingly;
- planning ability;
- public relations and presentation skills.
Career opportunities:
- public and private Arts and cultural organizations
- non-profit organizations
- companies in the creative industry sector
