Cultural Secretary with Exhibition Responsibility

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Job Highlights:

You will work creatively to create exhibitions that can reach a large audience.

Your Responsibilities

Leksand Municipality, the cultural department, is now seeking a cultural secretary with exhibition responsibility, whose main task is to make culture accessible and bring it to life from many different perspectives through the cultural department's exhibition work.

In this role, you will have primary responsibility for the exhibitions in Leksand's cultural center, which includes planning, implementation, and follow-up. Primarily, you will work with self-produced exhibitions, but loans of exhibitions from other actors also occur. You will collaborate with all actors within and outside the municipality who are active in the cultural field. In this assignment, you will be part of and collaborate with the cultural department's children and youth team as well as the elderly team.

The tasks are both complex and operationally problem-solving in nature. They are performed independently in consultation with the cultural manager, as well as together with other employees in the cultural department. The work is primarily carried out during daytime on weekdays, but evening and weekend work may occur.

Your Profile

We are looking for someone with a university degree that the employer deems appropriate for the position. For the role, it is a requirement that you have knowledge of exhibition work, which includes planning, implementation, technology, and lighting, as well as knowledge of artistic techniques, craftsmanship, and handling of art objects.

You should have experience in driving development work and processes, working with digital tools, and planning and implementing activities related to exhibitions. You should also have experience speaking and lecturing to an audience. You have the ability to express yourself well in speech and writing, as well as the ability to analyze, plan, implement, and evaluate. Additionally, you have the ability to visualize and present abstract ideas, concepts, trends in societal development, and complex relationships in a communicative way.

As a person, you are service-oriented, proactive, social, and structured. You also have a problem-solving analytical ability.

It is advantageous if you have:

• Knowledge of and experience working in a politically governed organization.
• Knowledge of driving projects from application to reporting, as well as experience in project management.
• Knowledge of multiple languages (for example, English, German, or French).
• Experience managing museum collections.
• Experience planning and implementing activities within the cultural field.
• Experience making culture accessible for children and youth, as well as for people with disabilities.
• The ability to create trust, confidence, and good relationships, both internally and externally.
• Knowledge of local history and heritage knowledge.
• Experience searching for and using archival material.
• A driver's license for a passenger car (B driver's license), as the position involves travel primarily within the municipality and Dalarna. Being comfortable with irregular working hours is also advantageous in this context.

We place great importance on your personal profile in this recruitment process.

About the Workplace

At Leksand's cultural center, we work in an inspiring environment where, in addition to exhibition halls, there are libraries, museums, and local historical archives. The sector for Community Development and the cultural department in Leksand Municipality has a special mission to work with children, youth, and the elderly.

We Offer You

For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and have an increased quality of life by working in the municipality. If we succeed in this, there are good conditions for also succeeding in our common task, which is:

We do what we are supposed to do by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping focus on those we serve. We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us. We do it together by collaborating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we serve, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work climate, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop through courses, training, and networking.

On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see www.leksand.se/jobbahososs (http://www.leksand.se/jobbahososs)

For you as an applicant, we have the opportunity to offer relocation services, see further www.rekryteringslots.se (http://www.rekryteringslots.se)

Your Application

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter. Identification to verify your identity must be presented at a possible interview. This is standard in all our recruitment processes. Please note that some positions within Leksand Municipality are subject to background checks. The type of check conducted depends on the content and responsibilities of the position. If the current position is subject to this, you will receive information about it during the recruitment process.

• Application deadline: 2026-04-12
• Start date: As soon as possible
• Duration: Permanent

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