Job Advertisement: Guides for Vitlycke Museum

The Cultural Administration works for a free, rich, and strong cultural life throughout Västra Götaland. We promote, support, and develop the cultural life of Västra Götaland together with municipalities, civil society, and other actors. 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 and is located 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 will be 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, thus functioning as a visitor portal for the World Heritage Site. The starting point is the Bronze Age and the rock carving images, but spans over 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 during the upcoming period.

Job Responsibilities

We are looking for three guides for 80% employment during the period 2025-03-24 to 2025-08-31.

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

• Phase 1: In April-May with educational programs aimed at elementary school grade 3. The programs include guided tours and hands-on activities in the Bronze Age Farm.
• Phase 2: Consists of the visitor season from June-August and is characterized by guided tours of, among other things, Vitlycke Rock 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 you will also mentor summer guides in demonstrating simpler crafts and hands-on activities. You will also help take care of the farm and any animals.

You will assist visitors with information and 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 arise as needed during certain periods. The position will involve work in the evenings and on weekends.

Qualifications

You have post-secondary education with a focus on archaeology. You enjoy working with people and have documented experience leading groups, both children and adults, as well as guiding groups in Swedish and English.

You have the ability to work independently and be a good communicator. You contribute to good collaboration in our workgroup and work towards the goal of providing good service to the museum's visitors. We will place great emphasis on personal qualities.

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

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

Meritorious

• Knowledge of ancient crafts and experience in craft demonstrations
• Language skills beyond Swedish and English, especially German
• B driver's license - having your 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.

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

Before the start of the seasonal employment, training days will be held in March, which you are expected to attend.

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 working methods. 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 crisis placement.

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

Application

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