Cultural Administration

The Cultural Administration works for a free, rich, and strong cultural life throughout Västra Götaland. We promote, support, and develop Västra Götaland's cultural life together with municipalities, civil society, and other stakeholders. The Cultural Administration provides support to the region's cultural political bodies: the Cultural Committee and the Board for Cultural Development. Read more on our website vgregion.se/kulturforvaltningen (https://vgregion.se/kulturforvaltningen).

About Vitlycke Museum

Vitlycke Museum is a knowledge and experience center for the World Heritage Site of Tanum's rock carvings near Tanumshede. The museum is an international destination and operates both outdoors at the World Heritage's rock carving areas, in the Bronze Age farm, and inside the building. Vitlycke Museum is open seasonally from April 1 to October 2025. Our mission includes working with information, programs, tours, and knowledge development based on the World Heritage Convention and the rock carvings.

Our program activities aim to make it easy to get to know and learn more about the rock carvings and increase accessibility to the World Heritage Site. The museum thus serves as a visitor portal for the World Heritage Site. The starting point is the Bronze Age and the rock carving images but spans an 8,000-year-long epoch of human presence in the World Heritage area. We strive for authenticity and to create a sense of community in our activities, a living cultural environment, and actively work to develop our core knowledge area in the coming period.

Job Responsibilities

We are now seeking a guide for an 80% position to take on the role of guide with team leader function for the 2025 season, during the period of March 24, 2025 – September 30, 2025.

As a guide, you will work to convey and bring our cultural heritage to life, which includes showing the rock carvings and the Bronze Age farm, educational programs, and other public activities. Our season has two phases:

In April and May, the focus is on our educational programs aimed at elementary school grade 3. The programs include both guided tours and hands-on activities in the Bronze Age farm.

After that, the workdays are characterized by guided tours of, among other things, Vitlyckehällen and other parts of the World Heritage Site. In the Bronze Age farm, you will meet visitors, lead groups, showcase environments and buildings, and plan and carry out craft demonstrations. Together with your colleagues, you will be responsible for planning activities in the farm and also guide summer guides in showcasing simpler crafts and hands-on activities. You will also assist in maintaining the farm and any animals.

You will assist visitors with information, general service, and be an important part of the museum's hospitality work. The position includes making the museum's activities visible on social media. Other tasks may also arise as needed. The team-leading tasks involve, among other things, guidance and coordination of tasks for guides and summer guides in daily work. You will also assist with reception and entrance services. The position will require evening and weekend work.

Qualifications

You have post-secondary education with a focus on archaeology or cultural history.

You enjoy working with people, providing service, and have documented experience leading groups of various ages, working pedagogically, and guiding groups in Swedish and English.

The nature of the work requires the ability to work independently and to be a good communicator. You contribute to good collaboration in our work group and work with the goal of providing excellent service to the museum's visitors. We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

As the museum is a small organization, you need to be prepared to work with tasks in all parts of our operations as needed.

Before agreeing to employment, we would like you to present an extract from the criminal record. Extracts for work with children in other activities than school and childcare can be ordered via the police's e-service.

Merits

Knowledge of ancient crafts and experience with craft demonstrations
Language skills beyond Swedish and English, particularly German
Driving license - own car is an advantage.

Other

We strive for a balanced gender and age distribution and see diversity as a strength, where our employees' differences enrich and develop the organization.

About Västra Götaland Region

The Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good healthcare for all. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communication throughout Västra Götaland.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more work processes. To be part of the digital transformation, you should have basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in the development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a state of readiness.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation about https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

The Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for specific and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective advertisement.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller:
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