Purpose of Job
Lead the team(s) for which you are responsible to effectively and efficiently deliver what matters to the people of Gwynedd by creating and maintaining an environment of respect and trust, empowering, equipping, and inspiring the staff.
 
Responsibility for Resources
               Museums and Arts Service Staff, Service Budgets, Museum Collections, Service Equipment and Buildings.
 
 Main Duties
              LEADING
Be accountable for the Service and for making the most effective and efficient use of the resources available.
Lead the Service’s staff by encouraging and motivating them to adopt the principles of Ffordd Gwynedd and be responsible for ensuring that happens.
Ensure an environment within the team that promotes and encourages staff wellbeing.
Support the team to establish operating principles, taking into account relevant legislation (e.g. Health and Safety, the Well-being of Future Generations Act, Social Services and Well-being Act) and ensure compliance.
Be aware of how the team’s systems work and facilitate challenging them where necessary.
Ensure that the team contributes to the aims of other services or organisations that seek to achieve what matters to the people of Gwynedd.
Promote the need to identify and act on future threats and opportunities, including preventative steps.
Ensure awareness of the legal and political climate affecting the service and ensure that team members understand the necessary elements.
Be alert to good practice within the service field and ensure that the team considers the suitability of that good practice for them.
Lead change within the service area where needed.
Deal with concerns raised by Elected Members about the Service.
 
ENABLING AND EMPOWERING
Recruit and develop individuals and teams to ensure they have the necessary skills to carry out the roles needed now and in the future.
Equip the team to establish what is important to the people of Gwynedd and thereby establish the team’s purpose and keep it up to date.
Ensure that decisions are made on the basis of evidence.
Help the team to review and challenge its performance.
Create and maintain an atmosphere that enables every team member to contribute and take decisions in order to provide the best possible services.
Ensure an atmosphere of trust and accountability within the team by ensuring appropriate communication with and within the team.
DELIVERING
Equip the team to consider which indicators demonstrate performance against the purpose and to take ownership of those indicators.
Encourage the team to innovate, take risks, and learn from experience in order to improve performance.
Motivate and/or mentor the team to identify and act promptly to remove barriers that prevent delivering what is important to the people of Gwynedd.
Resolve any barriers that the team cannot resolve themselves.
Ensure that complaints receive appropriate attention and that the team considers any lessons arising in order to improve the Service.
Act proactively; be open to thinking differently; be energetic and committed with personal integrity to deliver the functions below, ensuring that departmental staff are developed to demonstrate the same characteristics.
 
SELF-REFLECTION – on personal delivery of what is contained in the job description.
 
SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE POST
Lead the Museums and Arts Service in all its aspects – budgets, staff, work programmes, priorities etc., in consultation with the Head or Assistant Head.
Lead and supervise the work of Storiel, the Lloyd George Museum, the Community Arts Unit and Visual Arts.
Collect, document, safeguard, conserve and provide access to museum collections jointly with the Storiel Collections Curator, Bangor University and the Museums Development Officer in relation to access and site management.
Lead on developing an exciting programme of exhibitions and cultural activities within the county’s museums.
Lead the team in creating wide community awareness of the work of Storiel, the Lloyd George Museum and Gwynedd culture as part of raising awareness of Gwynedd’s heritage and story.
Ensure good professional practice within the Service, maintain Museum Accreditation standards and extend such good practice in relation to conservation of the Service’s artefacts.
Upon request, provide advice and support to other Authority Departments and, where appropriate, to external agencies including other museums, in relation to museums, their collections and accreditation.
Provide advice to researchers and respond to enquiries as required, and provide an identification service.
Work closely with the Storiel Learning and Engagement Officer, the Archives and Museums Education Officers and other heritage and cultural engagement project officers, where needed, to deliver a programme of education and engagement activities across Gwynedd.
Supervise the exhibition programme in the Service’s galleries in collaboration with the Visual Arts Officer and the Collections Curator.
Be primarily responsible for preparing grant applications on behalf of the museums and galleries, managing projects, and monitoring outcomes and expenditure arising from such work.
Maintain and support the relationship with the Friends of Storiel, the Friends of the Lloyd George Museum and the Sefydliad Cefnogi Storiel (Support Foundation).
Work with the Community Arts Officer to allocate strategic arts grants and Cyngor Gwynedd projects.
Co ordinate the work programme connected with the Arts Plan and Culture Plan.
Promote public use of and awareness of the Arts and Gwynedd’s culture.
Lead on forums and collaborative projects within the service field e.g. Celf (The Contemporary Art Gallery for Wales), the Museums Federation, collaboration with Bangor University and Amgueddfa Cymru, the Gwynedd Culture Network etc.
Research and prepare reports, represent the Service on working groups and undertake work of a similar nature.
Represent the Service, as required, with external agencies.
Contribute to the county’s marketing and publicity programme.
Be responsible for decisions relating to Health and Safety within the Museums and Arts Service.
Ensure that the Service’s emergency plan is current and effective.
Act as the point of contact for other cultural sites that fall under the Manager’s budget responsibility.
Carry out any general tasks relating to the management of the Department and the Service at the request of the Head of Department or Assistant Head and deputise on their behalf in the fields of Heritage, Arts and Culture.
 Special Circumstances
The need to work occasionaly at night and on weekends.
Full and Clean driving licence and use of a car