Head of the Administration and Finance Division at the Cultural Affairs Office, serving as Deputy Director of the Office (m/f/d)

The city of Esslingen am Neckar combines modernity with tradition. Their 98,000 inhabitants:inside, the numerous local businesses, facilities and authorities make the city live and provide a wide range of services. Esslingen is characterized by a rich cultural offering with a lively traditional and also innovative cultural scene with supra-regional broadcasting. In addition to the Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen and the municipal cultural institutions Stadtbücherei, Städtische Galerie Villa Merkel, Städt. Museums, music school and municipal archives Esslingen a. N. is characterized by its free cultural scene and especially by the networking of all actors at local events. The Cultural Office is looking for an indefinite period and full time

‘administrative and financial affairs’ with the Deputy Head of Mission

You take over the management of the Department of Administration and Finance with currently seven employees in the fields of administration, cultural and association promotion, cultural management and cultural marketing. You further develop the department in a human and content-oriented manner in the context of the cultural conception and the Esslinger participation strategy culture. You provide smooth administrative procedures and carry out administrative tasks for the Cultural Office with its six departments. You are responsible for finance, check the project / department budgets and support the individual budget managers. In addition to the payment transactions, you take over the controlling as well as the budgeting together with the departments. You create templates for the municipal council, process legal cases, clarify contractual and insurance issues and implement legal, administrative and public requirements. You work on personnel matters at the Cultural Office. You maintain the local and regional network of the Cultural Office. You advise cultural actors on promotions and conceptual issues and are responsible for promoting culture. You expect grants and projects and work with bodies and the Culture network. You manage major urban cultural events and support the cultural managers:in the Cultural Office, You implement cultural projects in financial and administrative matters as well as legal and security matters. You represent the Cultural Office in bodies and working groups. You represent the administration and support them in conceptual, organisational and administrative topics.

You have a university degree, preferably in administrative sciences, cultural management or business management, with a focus on culture. You are happy to communicate at the interface between creativity and administration. At best, You have management experience with personnel responsibility in the cultural and/or administrative field. You are a forward-looking and responsible personality with interest in municipal cultural topics. Your high social competence brings you into interaction with very different representatives: both from administration and culture. You work customer-oriented and are characterized by a high degree of communication and conflictability. You operate safely in public administration and budgetary law, know themselves in tax law and have a high affinity for finance and the tasks of digitalization in the cultural sector. You are familiar with the design, planning and implementation of events and related financing, contract and security issues. You have an analytical and systematic way of working, are open to new ones and like to develop creative ways of solving them. You are structured and have a pronounced transfer capability. You bring a willingness to work in evenings, weekends and, if necessary, holidays. Own initiative and flexibility complete your profile. You have a non-responsive police leadership certificate.

Remuneration in pay group 14 TVöD-VKA (5.298.27 EUR–7.551.878 EUR) with the comfortable social benefits of the public service and an additional occupational pension scheme or according to A 14 hD LBesGBW (5.652.72 EUR–7.211.994 EUR) All amounts are monthly gross values for full-time employment. On the following pages, you will receive information on the remuneration of employees (https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/vka/) and on the recruitment of officials (https://lbv.landbw.de/de/-/besoldungstafeln-2018). A motivated, design-friendly and collegial leadership team at the Kulturamt The German ticket is only 19,– Euro Own share (as a company ticket) Various training opportunities and development perspectives Promotion of occupational health management (modern canteen, JobRad etc.) Support in housing search