Director WH Cultural Assets Portfolio Iconic Heritage Destination
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Job Description
Role Summary
To successfully lead the asset development team and manage the effective development and delivery of the Foundations cultural assets in close coordination with the wider Foundation team and with the developer reporting to the Executive Director Cultural Heritage Assets.
The Foundation has c. 5 planned assets in development that will each celebrate an element of the legacy and natural environment. The assets are either at concept stage or early design stage.
Accountabilities
- Leadership: Effectively lead manage and inspire the cultural assets management team
- Team Management: Recruit train and supervise staff and volunteers involved in cultural asset development and management. Foster a collaborative and creative work environment.
- Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for the organizations cultural assets aligning it with the organizations overall mission and goals.
- Project Oversight: Establish and manage effective coordination and communication with the developer of the capital projects
- Project Development: Ensure the effective strategic development of new capital assets (buildings and exhibitions) in terms of alignment of the designs with the project vision and Foundation vision and goals
- Collaborative Project Management: Collaborate at a portfolio level with crossfunctional teams including developers architects designers curators project managers and contractors to ensure successful project delivery.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate closely at a portfolio level with stakeholders including the Foundation leadership local authorities and cultural experts to ensure alignment with project portfolio objectives
- Content and research coordination: Coordinate with the relevant teams to ensure effective management and coordination of research and content development strategies to input into each asset design process
- Resource Management (delivery): Allocate resources including personnel materials and technology effectively across multiple projects
- Resource Management (operational): Manage the organizations cultural assets including art collections programming and any other relevant culture asset assigned to the project. Oversee budgeting funding and resource allocation for cultural asset development and maintenance.
- Budget Management: Develop annual department operational budget and report on project financial performance to senior management.
- Asset operational planning: at a portfolio level develop a strategic approach to operational and business planning for the assets including but not limited to operational modelling resourcing training budget and business planning
- Evaluation and Reporting: Monitor and evaluate the impact of cultural asset development initiatives. Prepare regular reports and presentations for organizational leadership and stakeholders.
- Fundraising and Grants: Identify and pursue funding opportunities grants and sponsorships to support cultural asset development. Cultivate relationships with donors and philanthropic organizations
Educational Qualifications
- MA in Museum Studies Cultural Studies Architecture or Design
Experience
- 15 years of experience in the field (out of which 7 in a managerial position)
- Essential: capital projects development cultural sector project management cultural assets operational experience
- Desirable: architecture engineering project management
Employment Type
Full Time
