Cultural Director

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us! The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day, we provide people with experiences while we build, develop, and influence today’s and tomorrow's society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the everyday life of Gävle residents. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developmental job. We enable Gävle to grow and provide its citizens with exciting experiences. The capital city Gävle has a strong cultural identity with several well-established cultural institutions, including a symphony orchestra, art hall, museums, and theaters, and is noted for its broad and high-quality cultural offerings. Gävle's urban landscape and architecture reflect a city with a long history as a trading and port town. The cultural life is characterized by active cultural associations, engaged study associations, and theatrical traditions. Thanks to the university, the city is also perceived as a place with student life. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developmental role as Cultural Director, where good collaboration with all cultural actors is essential. **JOB RESPONSIBILITIES** As Cultural Director, you contribute to making Gävle Municipality even more attractive for Gävle residents, other municipal residents, visitors, voluntary actors, and the business community. Your overarching mission is to ensure that the cultural life in the municipality develops according to the direction of the Culture and Leisure Committee: a sustainable cultural life of high quality. This means that the intrinsic value of culture must be safeguarded, culture must be accessible to all, and the needs and rights of children and young people are particularly important. You report to the sector manager of Livsmiljö Gävle, who is your direct supervisor, and you are part of the sector's management team. In this role, you have budgetary and operational responsibility as well as personnel responsibility over the heads of the operations. You adopt a trust-based approach in your leadership and have a structured and systematic working method. Through your strong collaborative skills and good demeanor, you lead the operations to achieve the right quality. You lead the management team of the Culture division with heads of the units: Art and Culture, Meeting Places and Youth, Libraries and Culture Houses, as well as Concerts and Events. The operational area includes the public library mission, Agnes Cultural Center with Gävle Art Center and Cinema 7, the Culture School, Gas Tanks, Concert Hall with Gävle Symphony Orchestra, association grants, youth center assignments, and the municipality's cultural guarantee for children and young people. As Cultural Director, you represent the operational area in various forums and steering groups within the municipality and sometimes at regional and national levels. Collaboration with actors in civil society is central to the role. **QUALIFICATIONS** *About You* We are looking for someone with a degree in culture or other qualifications that the employer deems relevant to the position. You have several years of experience as a manager in the cultural sector, as well as extensive experience in supervising and following up on personnel, finance, and operations, including experience in continuous improvement. You have previously worked in a politically governed organization and/or have expertise in running public-facing activities, both publicly funded and revenue-based. You are responsive to the needs and conditions of civil society and work towards good and enabling collaboration with associations, study associations, and other actors. You are confident in representing the organization externally and communicating with the media as necessary. *Your Leadership* You are an approachable and clear leader who supports and motivates employees while creating engagement through a trust-based approach. You foster an organizational culture based on good collaboration and interaction to ensure the quality of the mission. You establish trust and communicate through attentive and respectful dialogue where feedback is viewed as a natural part of learning. You delegate and encourage individual development. You stay attuned to societal developments, which gives you a strong ability to see the bigger picture, prioritize, and lead the operations towards clear goals. You lead through change and create conditions for solving issues and advancing missions, always with a focus on the customer. You regard digitalization issues as important for the operations to be accessible and to elevate the education level and digital competence of employees and residents. **OTHER** To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or in paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager and do not submit your application digitally. Gävle Municipality has a decision regarding the right to full-time employment, which means that permanent employees can request that