Deadline: 12/07/2010
The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) focuses on new technologies and visual art. It presents and distributes media art, provides access to and conservation services for collections, facilitates artists’ residencies and performs technical research. The NIMk is seeking an artistic generalist with knowledge of and a vision for new media art, who will further expand the tasks and programmes of the Institute: a person with vision, whose innovative ideas and élan will define the new course of the NIMk.
Responsibilities:
* Programming: assessing, initiating and developing diverse projects;
* Responsibility for the supervision of colleagues in this process;
* Drawing up policy plans, supervision of and responsibility for their realisation;
* Development of the general strategy of the Institute: artistic / substantive policy, marketing and organisation;
* Directing the Staff and artistic and technical personnel;
* Maintaining and expanding the NIMk’s networks;
* Representing the NIMk internally and externally, and to that end communicating with very diverse target groups, from specialists in the field to the general public;
* Fund raising, budgeting and planning in cooperation with the Business Director.
Qualifications:
* The ideal candidate would be an artistic generalist with knowledge of and a vision for new media, and a broad perspective on current 20th and 21st century visual art;
* With a solid (inter)national network at the level of the most discussed institutions in the field of new media and visual art;
* With a sense for the different components of the NIMk: presentation, participating in projects and collaborative arrangements, development, conservation and management;
* Who can actively give shape to the further development and profiling of the substance and social position of the NIMk;
* Proactive and enterprising, with an eye for opportunities, a capacity to see connections and make prompt decisions;
* With relevant management experience;
* Team player, flexible, with a high level of social skills;
* Outstanding skills in communication, internally and externally;
* Capacity for cooperation with others, inside and outside the organisation;
* Fluent writer, for the optimal presentation of the content of the NIMk to varied audiences, via classic and new (social) media;
* Knowledge of financial affairs, experience with seeking grants and recruiting sponsors;
* Ability to think and work at an academic level;
* The General / artistic director will have a mastery of the Dutch language, or must be able to quickly attain a thorough mastery of Dutch.
Application procedure
All interested applicants should respond to this offer by 12 July, 2010 at: vacature@nimk.nl
Practical information:
* Annual contract, with the possibility of renewal
* 32 hours per week
* Commencing 1 December, 2010
* Interviews in the 3rd week of August
* References upon request
* Assessment is among the possibilities