Museum Superintendent

Motala kommun · Vollzeit

Motala, Schweden

Do you want to become our new colleague? In Motala, Östergötland's lakeside city, we are open, proud, and innovative. Our municipality is the right place to contribute, develop, and thrive. With a responsible mission, we adapt to change and act to develop sustainable lakeside life in Motala municipality. Together we make life better! We like you – and we help you develop. Our vision is for children and adults together to develop into creative, positive individuals who choose joy in life. Therefore, we offer broad and deep activities where we give you the opportunities, regardless of your goals. Motala should be an attractive and innovative part of the Östergötland region where it is easy to live and work. This is also our driving force within the education administration. In Motala municipality, culture should be a driving force in societal development and stimulate cultural diversity. Many different actors provide the combined cultural offerings in Motala municipality. Here commercial, publicly funded, and nonprofit forces blend. Cultural associations and organizers are supported with grants and advice. 1 position(s). JOB DUTIES Do you want to help develop our museums? We are now seeking a museum superintendent who will be responsible for artifacts and coordination of various exhibition projects. We are seeking a person for a combined role in exhibition production, artifact management, and project management. You will have overall responsibility for the museum's exhibition processes. An equally large part of your work involves practical artifact handling and project management in work with the municipality's industrial museum, which is facing a move and reopening. The goal is high-quality exhibitions with the visitor in focus, as well as conveying knowledge and cultural heritage, history, and the present. In exhibition projects, you work with all aspects such as planning, research, design, text production, documentation, marketing, follow-up, and evaluation. In the projects you are clearly driving and serve as a coordinating link between different functions. You collaborate with external actors and networks at local, regional, and national levels and contribute with environmental monitoring within the museum's subject areas. Your role is important in creating encounters between the museum's content and the museum's identified target audiences. You are responsible for the project budget, which includes financial planning, grant applications, reporting, and administrative tasks within given budget frameworks. In collaboration with colleagues and your manager, you will work strategically with overall exhibition planning, program activities, and seasonal planning with scheduling for summer workers, opening hours scope, and more. We have a workplace in a creative environment in a small work group with great freedom and responsibility and with expectations for results and production and good representation. Today you will have an office space at the culture and recreation office and primarily work duties at our three municipal museums; Charlottenborgs slott, Sveriges Rundradiomuseum, and Motala industrimuseum. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with completed higher education in museology, art history, cultural studies, history, media design, or equivalent education deemed relevant. We would like to see that you have previously worked professionally in a museum in some capacity. If you have knowledge of budget management and/or administration, we also see that as meritorious. The work involves being able to write texts and produce materials, so it is a requirement to have good knowledge of the Swedish language both spoken and written. As a person, you are self-driven and express a positive attitude toward work, activities, and organization. To succeed in this role, we see that you find it easy to plan and organize your work efficiently and set and maintain deadlines. You ensure that the information you communicate reaches the right people by being clear in your communication. Furthermore, you collaborate well with other people and listen and communicate in a responsive manner. You have a great interest in society and see it as a challenge to problematize and highlight the past, present, and future and to adapt messages to both existing and new target audiences. As a person, you are structured and thorough and communicate clearly. You can prioritize and plan your work ahead. Collaboration is a key word and occurs to a large extent both internally and externally. The role requires good digital administrative ability with experience to independently plan, initiate, coordinate, implement, and evaluate exhibition projects. You need to have experience working structurally with how you clearly plan projects and report budgets. As a person, you are unpretentious, choose to see the opportunities in your work, and lead work groups with clear goals and are accustomed to meeting deadlines. We see that you put users' varying needs at the center. This therefore requires that you have good theoretical and analytical ability that can be implemented in practice. We are looking for you with a strong interest in society in relation to industrial history, history, archaeology, etc., and who have the ability to implement this in exhibition content. You organize and plan your work well and complete what you start, set deadlines, and meet them. You think outside the box and find new solutions to both old and new problems. You often come up with ideas and new approaches to work-related issues and have innovative thinking that can be implemented in practice and leads to results. Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: by agreement. Working hours: primarily regular office hours, weekend work occurs Read more about our benefits and working in Motala municipality at motala.se/arbete. For more information about the municipality, visit motala.se Appointment is subject to proper decisions. Please note that we decline all direct contact from staffing and recruitment companies with whom we do not have agreements, as well as sellers of additional job ads.