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Head of Museums & Cultural Services
CLSCS/17/IB INSPIRE, INNOVATE AND IMPRESS. If you are ready to make a lasting impact on local services and enhance your reputation in the process, Hackney is the ideal setting. Formed in 2003, our Community & Leisure Services Directorate now has a new leadership team who are bringing together three services that share a natural synergy Libraries, Archives & Information Services, Museums & Cultural Services and Parks & Leisure Services. This has created a rare opportunity for three strong, dynamic Service Heads to provide professional leadership in these key areas. Joining us at an exciting time, you will work closely with the Assistant Director to transform the Division and bed down the new structures to enable us to continually improve the quality of our services. If you have significant operational experience and can transform this into strategic leadership, this is your chance to shine. Hackney Museum has a national reputation for its success in engaging Hackneys internationally diverse communities in the development of its collection, exhibitions and events. An innovative education programme has led to a thriving partership with local schools and the development of on-line ESOL learning resources. Your enthusiasm and imagination will enable you to build strong partnerships that support the future development and expansion of the range of services provided by the Musuem. The cultural sector in Hackney is vibrant. Many of the groups, organisations and businesses located here will be known to you. You will be involved in furthering the development of Hackneys creative clusters, brokering opportunities that support the sustainable development of the sector, and its role as a leading contributor to our future growth and prosperity as a borough. Importantly, you will have experience of widening access and participation to the arts and understand how the arts can engage communities in civic life. Above all, you will be proactive in delivering high quality, customer-focused cultural services that meet the needs and aspirations of all sections of the community. These challenging but rewarding positions call for a degree level education, a relevant professional qualification and an impressive track record of delivering high quality services, ideally in the public sector. Your experience as a senior manager within a large organisation will have equipped you with outstanding people management and strategic thinking ability and strong budgetary control skills. An inspirational leader and an effective communicator, you will demonstrate a good understanding of the needs of communities in a deprived inner city area.
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