Director

The Municipality of Lansingerland is building a beautiful new cultural center, Casa Cadanza, which will be located in the heart of Berkel Centrum West. For this new cultural center, the Municipality of Lansingerland is seeking a passionate and enterprising director who is ready to take on the challenge of developing a cultural center where culture is experienced in the broadest sense of the word. This is a wonderful opportunity to help build a unique new cultural facility for the region, with plenty of freedom and room to shape the project according to your own vision.

With two movie theaters, a large multipurpose hall, classrooms, dining facilities, and a library, Casa Cadanza will become the cultural heart of Berkel Centrum West. A place where connection and wonder take center stage. An accessible space where everyone feels at home and enjoys spending time, and a home that sparks curiosity. Groundbreaking for Casa Cadanza will take place in 2023. It is expected that by 2025, the doors will be wide open to all visitors to the cultural center.

Before the grand opening, the Casa Cadanza Cultural Center Foundation is working with the Oostland Library and other social and cultural partners to develop a high-quality and diverse program. The challenge is to create an interesting mix of in-house programming and collaborations with users and partners of the cultural center. In 2023, this will be a 32-hour-per-week position, leading to full-time employment in 2024 in accordance with the Dutch Performing Arts Collective Bargaining Agreement (CAO Nederlandse Podia).

The new director has achieved the following results:

Mission and Vision

• Together with the chairperson, you will help formulate the mission and vision of the Casa Cadanza Cultural Center Foundation.
• You will translate the cultural center’s vision and objectives into concrete actions, partnerships, and programming.

Partners and stakeholders

• Working closely with the Foundation’s chairperson, you will build a broad network, develop partnerships, and foster support among residents.
• You will serve as a key partner to the municipality and the library in the construction and development of the cultural center. Together, you will shape its design.
• You know how to encourage residents to get involved in shaping the cultural center.

Operations/Business management

• You will help ensure the cultural center operates in a sound financial manner through a solid financial policy.
• You will establish an organization with a solid organizational structure and working methods, recruit staff, and assemble the team.
• You are responsible for securing new funding and for building relationships with financial partners for the cultural center.
• You are a driving force behind the digital and physical infrastructure.
• You have a clear vision for the hospitality industry and ensure that it is realized, potentially in collaboration with external partners.

Programming

• You will develop a vision for the range of social and cultural activities that aligns with societal developments and needs. You will involve residents and other stakeholders in these developments.
• Following the completion of the building (expected in 2024), you will be responsible for staffing and program planning and will guide the organization’s further development.

Who are you?

• As a networker in the cultural sector, you know better than anyone how to identify common ground. You bring people together and help others see that their contributions are essential to achieving the desired outcome. You seek out and find win-win situations.
• You understand that a strong relationship is half the battle and recognize the power of language. You devote your energy to promoting the cultural center’s vision. You outline the new concept we’re working toward as a goal on the horizon. You incorporate social trends and developments into your vision to ensure the concept is future-proof.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and take a creative approach to cultural entrepreneurship. This allows you to ensure financial sustainability by making the most of the cultural center’s strengths in terms of space rental, food and beverage services, and community-building initiatives.
• Coaching leadership is in your blood. You care about people and know how to connect them—both staff and the public—to the cultural center and its mission.
• You view the connection between culture and society within a community as a logical starting point for the development of Casa Cadanza. In addition, you are able to develop a vision for cultural education and cultural participation that brings people together both internally and externally.
• You know how to present sensitive arguments effectively and turn opponents into supporters of your ideas. You achieve this within a political context by effectively involving the administration in the process.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills and a well-developed understanding of political and administrative issues.

What skills do you possess?
Building connections, developing and communicating a vision, persuasiveness, strategic thinking, social and political awareness.

Project Schedule

• In early 2023, you will begin the initial development phase in collaboration with the chair of the Foundation, based in the municipality of Lansingerland. Working from the Casa Cadanza Cultural Center Foundation, you will collaborate with the Foundation’s board and the part-time marketing specialist on the cultural center’s vision and positioning. Starting in 2024, you will be responsible for the organization, staffing, and programming on a full-time basis.
• The position is initially for 32 hours per week in 2023, after which a full-time position may follow in 2024 in accordance with the Dutch Performing Arts Collective Bargaining Agreement, Scale 9B.
• Preferred start date: March 2023, employed by the Casa Cadanza Cultural Center Foundation.
• It is possible to start as a freelancer. We prefer a long-term employment arrangement.

Casa Cadanza Cultural Center: Update

• The Municipality of Lansingerland is the client for the construction of the Casa Cadanza Cultural Center and has assembled a project team for this purpose. The director maintains close contact with the project team, serving, among other things, as a sounding board for the practical details of construction and interior design.
• Starting in 2023, the Foundation will operate with the municipality as its funding partner. The municipality has allocated a grant to help establish the Foundation and has subsequently set aside an annual cultural grant to support its ongoing operations.
• Draft bylaws for the Foundation have been prepared. In the initial years, the board-management model will be in effect, to be converted later to a model with an executive director and a Supervisory Board.
• A major user of the building alongside the Foundation is the Oostland Library. It will become a subtenant and the Foundation’s first partner.
• Construction of the cultural center will begin in early 2023. It is expected to open in early 2025.
• For more information, see: www.casacadanza.nl, which includes conceptual renderings, dimensions, location, etc.

Inclusivity
The Foundation is an organization for everyone, where we embrace the widest possible range of people. We therefore warmly invite anyone interested to get in touch. The Casa Cadanza Cultural Center Foundation adheres to the Cultural Governance Code, the Fair Practice Code, and the Diversity & Inclusion Code.

Interested?
The Municipality of Lansingerland is being advised by Colourful People throughout this process. Winfred Voordendag, senior partner at Colourful People, will be happy to answer any questions you may have. He can be reached at w.voordendag@colourfulpeople.nl or by cell phone at 06-28284706. Please submit your application via the "Apply" button, including your resume and cover letter.

• The application deadline for this position is December 31, 2022.
• The interviews are scheduled forWednesday, February 1, and Wednesday, February 8, 2023.