Cultural Program Coordinator
Job opening
CULTURAL PROGRAM COORDINATOR (M/F/D)
at Goethe-Institut Myanmar
Volume of employment:
50% (October to December 2023) and 100% from January 2024 onwards
We especially welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply.
The Goethe-Institut Myanmar is looking for a “Cultural Program Coordinator” starting in October 2023. The position is particularly suitable for professionals of relevant creative fields and with a strong interest in cultural project coordination and management / arts administration for an international cultural institution with at least three years of professional experience in the field.
The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. It promotes learning German as a foreign language, studies in Germany and encourages international cultural exchange. Additionally, the Goethe-Institut conveys a comprehensive contemporary image of Germany by providing information about the country’s cultural, social, and political life in close cooperation with local partners. The Goethe-Institut Myanmar offers an attractive range of tasks, an interesting and varied working environment, continuous training, and appropriate working conditions and wages.
Position Requirements:
- University degree or equivalent training.
- Currently based in Yangon.
- Extensive interest and experience of cultural work in Myanmar and with a strong
- network of the local creative scene and diverse cultural communities as well as civil society.
- Minimum of 3 to 5 years relevant experience in program coordination, arts
- administration and / or cultural resource management or related professional experience in the field of arts and culture.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Myanmar (German language skills are a plus)
- Financial budget controlling and excellent organizational skills
- Experience in narrative report writing.
- High resilience, self-motivated, a good team player with interest in working in an intercultural work context.
- Strong ability to integrate in institutional work environment.
- Very good communication skills.
- Ability to learn new database systems as well as interest in new technical abilities and hybrid / digital formats and methods.
- Ability to build and maintain effective networks across all art disciplines.
- Excellent ability to communicate with partners and connect to people from different cultural fields in Myanmar, in the region, Germany and internationally.
- Very good proficiency in Microsoft office suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access) to manage, present and track program information.
- Organize and coordinate relevant events and programs of the project.
- Flexibility in working hours, e.g., on weekends and evenings depending on program.
- Willing to travel within Myanmar and to Germany.
- Managing the administrative and operational needs of the project, including budgeting.
- planning and reporting.
- Develop action plan of projects, programs and ensure all activities are implemented and organized according to schedule.
- Active point of contact for all interlocutors involved.
- Aid in identifying and creating, maintaining, and expanding a network of artists/cultural agents and develop strong communication with those and provide regular updates internally.
- Cooperate with other departments to accomplish the given tasks.
- Participate in new employee orientation sessions and necessary trainings.
- Prepare alternative ways to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver results to
- meet timelines.
- Preserve the privacy of each segment of project and organization data and information.
- Planning, preparation, implementation, follow-up evaluation, reporting and financial management of cultural events, projects, and general program work of the Goethe-Institut Myanmar
- Any administrative work / processing that exists in connection with the cultural program department, e.g., updating of the project planning software.
- Assisting the institute's management, especially in cultural work
- Contract preparation
- Writing funding applications, texts such as project summaries
- Research and conceptual work
- Artist and guest service as well as their travel coordination
- Maintaining contacts of the existing partner network as well as network expansion in the German and Myanmar cultural scene but also regionally and internationally
- Internal and external communication (e.g., liaising with the auditorium team) and correspondence.
- Working on interdepartmental projects
- Supporting press and public relations work, in close accord with the institute’s communication team
- Supporting recruitment processes and job advertisements for the culture department
- Active support in annual planning procedures, conception of the program, project development and strategic implementation of these
- General coordination of office activities and procedures such as planning meetings and writing minutes, etc.
- Department’s calendar management, maintenance, monitoring, and coordination of it
- Maintenance of the contact lists
- Willingness to travel within Myanmar, and to Germany
- Further activities by arrangement
- Please send your application including at least one to two references (recommendation letters), a CV and a motivation letter to info.kultur.MMR@goethe.de.
- The application deadline is Wednesday, 20th September 2023. Please note that incomplete applications or applications received after this deadline cannot be considered and only those shortlisted will be contacted.