Arts education officer to cultural visitor services manager
An arts education officer already meets 55% of what the cultural visitor services manager role asks for. The move turns on 6 required skills not yet in the profile.
44.9/ 100
1 How much of what a cultural visitor services manager is expected to do is already part of an arts education officer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the cultural visitor services manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A cultural visitor services manager role treats 7 of its required skills as things an arts education officer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- create cultural venue learning strategies
- develop educational resources
- establish educational network
- evaluate cultural venue programmes
- evaluate cultural venue visitor needs
- plan art educational activities
What stands in the way is 6 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A cultural visitor services manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an arts education officer background worth leading with.
- already held promote cultural venue in schools communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held create cultural venue learning strategies management skills
- already held evaluate cultural venue programmes information skills
- already held evaluate cultural venue visitor needs management skills
- already held establish educational network communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held promote cultural venue events communication, collaboration and creativity
All 10 carried skills, including the 7 the cultural visitor services manager role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 8 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn consult exhibition organisers required
- still to learn create cultural venue outreach policies required
- still to learn work with cultural venue specialists required
- optional, not held ensure infrastructure accessibility optional
- still to learn manage art facilities staff required
- still to learn develop outreach training plans required
- still to learn approve reports for artistic project required
- optional, not held assemble health and safety resources in cultural venues optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a cultural visitor services manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 manage art facilities staff practise this
- 02 approve reports for artistic project practise this
- 03 consult exhibition organisers practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 10 skills that carry over
- already held create cultural venue learning strategies skill
- already held develop educational resources skill
- already held establish educational network skill
- already held evaluate cultural venue programmes skill
- already held evaluate cultural venue visitor needs skill
- already held plan art educational activities skill
- already held promote cultural venue events skill
- already held develop artistic educational activities skill
- already held manage volunteers skill
- already held promote cultural venue in schools skill
2 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held assemble health and safety resources in cultural venues optional
- optional, not held ensure infrastructure accessibility optional
0 held skills the cultural visitor services manager role does not ask for
Common questions about this move
Can an arts education officer become a cultural visitor services manager?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. An arts education officer already covers 55% of what a cultural visitor services manager is expected to do: 10 skills carry over, 7 of which the cultural visitor services manager role treats as required.
What skills does an arts education officer need to become a cultural visitor services manager?
6 required skills are missing, plus 2 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is manage art facilities staff.
How hard is the move from arts education officer to cultural visitor services manager?
Its learning distance is 44.9 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.