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Where an art administrator can go next

1 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an art administrator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Art administrators are among the professionals that manage the business needs of an organisation devoted to arts. They provide support for financial and corporative tasks, and they can work for a range of organizations from for-profit to governmental or non-profit organisations. Examples of these organisations are dance companies, film studios, theaters and art museums or galleries.

Also known as public arts manager, art studio manager, museum engagement coordinator, art coordinator, exhibitions coordinator, curatorial coordinator, fine arts coordinator, art studio coordinator, gallery project coordinator, performing arts administrator, art-outsourcing coordinator, art centre manager.

Professionals 26 skills on file 1 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: art handler, 21%

Fig. 2 · Career map 1 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 1 nearest destinations from art administrator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an art administrator already covers. All 1 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only one move is listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

art handler 21% covered · difficulty 65.9

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An art administrator needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area

monitor artwork market information skills
philanthropy business, administration and law
manage cultural facility management skills
identify artistic niche communication, collaboration and creativity
fine arts arts and humanities
handle artworks handling and moving
coordinate with creative departments communication, collaboration and creativity
work with cultural venue specialists communication, collaboration and creativity
art collections arts and humanities
coordinate artistic production management skills

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an art administrator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

art handler 21% covered · difficulty 76.5

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Art administrator is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an art administrator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.