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Music and Culture Director

West FlandersHybrid38 hours/week>12months

A public organization is investing in a place where music thrives: a music center that fosters talent, connects organizers and musicians, and brings residents together. In this way, the organization continues to build a strong music city, with extra opportunities for young people and a vibrant music sector. As project leader of this center, you develop and realize the vision for the center as a music hub and creative space for young people. You build a strong network and take on a directing role.

You put the center on the map as a meeting place for musicians, organizers, and the public, develop projects and partnerships, and translate policy ambitions into sustainable operations.

What you do

  • Develop the vision for the music center and translate it into a concrete multi-year plan
  • Detect societal and policy-related opportunities
  • Advise the board on the further development of the center
  • Identify opportunities and needs within the local music field and translate them into proposals for urban music policy
  • Build and direct the music network by connecting musicians, organizers, associations, educational, cultural, and youth partners
  • Build sustainable partnerships and stimulate collaboration within the music ecosystem
  • Organize activities and events and set up innovative projects
  • Create opportunities for talent development, creation, presentation
  • Stimulate experimentation and respond flexibly to opportunities
  • Acquire external resources and strategic partnerships, including writing or coordinating grant applications
  • Develop supra-local and regional collaborations
  • Increase the visibility of the center and represent it within relevant networks
  • Contribute to a recognizable identity and image
  • Coordinate operations and internal alignment with departments such as Site Management, Buildings, Leisure Point, Events
  • Ensure efficient work processes and monitor planning, budgets, and operational agreements

Profile

  • You strongly believe in the power of collaboration and are energized by connecting people, organizations
  • You are entrepreneurial, see opportunities, and know how to translate them into concrete results
  • You are a strong networker and easily build lasting relationships
  • You think strategically and translate a long-term vision into feasible projects and actions
  • You are opportunity-oriented and dare to test new ideas
  • You feel at home in an environment that is still fully developing
  • You know how to inspire people and communicate clearly and convincingly
  • You can work independently and take ownership, but also seek alignment with colleagues and partners
  • You work systematically and result-oriented, maintain an overview, and set priorities
  • You have an affinity with music, culture, youth work, or talent development and understand how a network of artists, associations, organizers, and partners works
  • You are creative and think in possibilities, daring to question existing working methods

What they ask

  • Bachelor's degree or two years of relevant experience

Preferences.

  • Experience with project work, network development, grant projects, or policy development

Practical

  • Employment is linked to subsidies currently secured for one year. If subsidies cease, employment may end
  • Flexible schedule and possibility of remote work
  • Provision of IT work tools (smartphone with subscription and laptop)
  • Extensive training and career opportunities
  • Meal vouchers, extensive leave scheme, discount pass, and hospitalization insurance
  • Full reimbursement of commuting expenses by public transport, possibility of bicycle leasing, and bicycle allowance
  • Second pension pillar of 3%

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