Senior Cultural Heritage Compliance Specialist

Senior Cultural Heritage Compliance Specialist /

Key Accountabilities : Role purpose : To facilitate compliance with state legislation in relation to cultural heritage across QM department and external stakeholders, and develop procedures, checks, and monitoring tools for compliance with international heritage conventions, treaties, guidelines. Duties and Responsibilities :

• Participate in drafting legislations, bylaws, policies, and guidelines for the archaeology and heritage sector in QM to fulfil obligation of existing and / or future legal frameworks for cultural heritage in the State of Qatar.
• Participate in heritage site classification, and registration locally and internationally, including technical evaluation, technical reporting, including administration of the state national register.
• Establishing guidelines for compliance with international heritage conventions by organizations such as UNESCO, ICROM, IUCN, ICOMOS, and ICOM, including registration of cultural property in movement, permitting, licensing, corrective measures, and policing of illicit trafficking.
• Preparation or measure and monitoring tools for the protection of cultural property during disaster and emergency periods, including coordination of impact assessment and risk management activities, and the compliance with internal / external stakeholders.
• Assist in preparation of periodic or technical reporting for registered sites and other obligations towards international governing bodies.
• Assist in review of disputed cases and / or arbitration for cultural property.
• Prepare and administer public-private-partnership policies, unification or cultural heritage definitions / terms, unification of site protection regulations, and sites visual identity.
• Facilitate and participate in capacity building exercises, and preparation of manuals for the protection, management, and promotion of cultural heritage.
• Participate in the institution and administration of accreditation criteria for the establishment of private museums, commercialized private collection, heritage auction houses, and other cultural property affiliated bodies including minimum special and operations requirements.
• Provide technical review on compliance of adaptive reuse requests for heritage activation requests, as well as public art installation across heritage sites.
• Provide technical review / inspection support for cultural property in movement across the State of Qatar (internal person-to-person exchanges, imports, exports, and transits).
• Prepare and administer the guidelines for conservation, preservation and adaptive reuse including the rubric for activation. Qualifications / Requirements : Strong understanding of international convention and treaties in relation to cultural heritage. Strong understanding of roles and responsibilities of international cultural governing bodies and international cultural heritage committees. Familiar with legal interdependency in the State of Qatar Good understanding of heritage program planning, and Qatari heritage / archaeology. Strong communication and organizational skills. Excellent teamwork. Excellent technical reporting. A master’s degree is required – preferred fields are international law, international political science, cultural diplomacy, or heritage management – Ph.D. is preferred. Minimum of 5 years working for a similar function in a government, a semi-government, or international heritage governing body for master’s degree holders / A minimum of 2 years for holder of a Ph.D. Degree.

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