Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Head of Cultural Property - Domestic Policy
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The Cultural Property team works to tell our national story by unlocking the power of the country’s cultural property. We make this possible with dynamic, innovative schemes to allow more of our country’s treasures to be shared with the public.
The team oversees domestic and international cultural property policy, including how statutory functions enable UK museums and galleries to acquire and exhibit cultural property - including the Bayeux Tapestry - for public benefit, drive manifesto priority Arts Everywhere, and support the Hodge Review of ACE. We also lead on crime and the illicit trade in cultural property, respond to claims for the restitution of cultural property in UK museums including the Parthenon Sculptures, and have responsibility for the government’s relations with the UK art market.
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We work closely with the museums side of the team who manage the relationship with the 15 DCMS-sponsored museums and covers policy and schemes that impact museums and collections of all sizes across the country, including funding and sector resilience.
We are part of the friendly and engaged Culture directorate of around 80 colleagues that also includes the Arts, Creative Places and Libraries teams and a dedicated analysis team.
Job description
Protecting cultural property across the UK for public benefit. As the strategic and operational lead on policies to protect and promote the UK’s cultural property, you will work closely with the Arts Council England on statutory schemes:
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- Export licensing for cultural objects and deferral of national treasures via public body the RCEWA
- Government Indemnity Scheme
- Cultural Gift Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu
- Immunity from Seizure
You will also oversee sponsorship of the UK art market:
- Advocacy of the sector across Government: significance, contribution to soft power and relevance to the Industrial Strategy / Creative Industries Sector Plan
- Analysis and evaluation of the sector
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