Head of the Office for Culture

About the job

Head of the Office for Culture

Your responsibilities:

In this demanding role, you combine leadership, cultural promotion, strategic development and operational implementation. Together with various stakeholders, you shape the cultural and social-spatial development of the city and are the central contact person for cultural creators, cultural institutions and cultural mediators.

In particular:

• Professional and personnel management of the departments of Culture and Social-Spatial Urban Development
• Strategic further development of the cultural offerings of the city of Frauenfeld Organisation and support of the Culture Commission and management of the Kulturpool Regio Frauenfeld association
• Preparation of matters for the executive and legislative bodies as well as handling assigned parliamentary motions
• Initiation and implementation of cultural mediation activities, cultural events and management of the city gallery Baliere
• Responsibility for the office's budget, the various service agreements of recurring cultural contributions and cultural funding applications with the necessary control and monitoring mechanisms
• Management of the municipal art collection
• Maintaining networking within the city’s cultural scene, with cantonal institutions, representation at the Cities Conference for Culture and Cultural Mediation Switzerland

Your profile:

You have a higher education in cultural management, cultural studies, public management, communication or a comparable field and bring several years of professional experience in the cultural environment as well as leadership experience.

In particular:

• Experience in leading employees and teams
• High organisational and coordination skills as well as understanding of political processes and public administration
• Confidence in drafting demanding political and administrative documents
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Independent, structured and solution-oriented working style
• Sense of responsibility in handling public funds
• A confident manner and the ability to bring together different interests

What you can look forward to:

• Collegial, open and respectful collaboration
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of home office work
• Personal development, support for further training
• At least 5 weeks of holiday
• Above-average social benefits and extra-mandatory training allowances as well as family allowances
• Various discounts: such as participation in public transport, discounted employee parking, Reka money etc.
• Central workplace with very good transport connections

Your next step:

Please send us your online application. For further information, the following person will be happy to assist you:

Department of Finance and Central Services

Claudio Bernold

City President

052 724 52 14