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Bonsoir à tous,
je postule pour un stage aux Etats Unis et j'ai concocté ce petit Cv et cette "cover letter" qui sont, j'en ai bien peur, bourrés de fautes... Est ce quelqu'un aurait l'aimabilité de me corriger SVP???
D'avance merci

CV

A highly experienced, motivated student in cultural management, wishing to accomplish an internship in an environment where her managerial and inter-personal skills, coupled with her fluent knowledge of Frensh and English, will make a positive contribution.


09/2005-05/2006
• Director’s assistant within “SB Conseil”, counselling in cultural engineering. Responsible for:
• Raising funds from corporations and foundations for the “Festival In” of Avignon (theatre), elaborating “partnership dossier”. Participation to the creation of a “Partners club”.
• Realizing and redacting surveys (of prefiguration, feasibility) for different National Festivals and cultural structures.
• Numerous administrative tasks
06/2005-08/2005
• Chargé of public relations and communication, Theatre “Les Ateliers d’Amphoux”
• Contacts with press: elaboration of press reviews and dossiers, invitations…
• Relations with publics and artists
• Elaboration and diffusion of programs, elaboration of planning, administrative tasks.
07/2005, 07/2006
• Journalist for La Provence, regional daily newspaper
• Theatre critic, daily redaction of articles.



2006-2007
• Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance, top management school in France, Master 2 (equivalent to Master’s degree) in Management of cultural events and organizations.

2003-2006
• Universities of Dijon and Avignon.
With honours First class: Licence and maîtrise (equivalent to Bachelor’s degree) in Theatrical Studies

2001-2003
• University of Dijon. With honours 2.1:DEUG (2 years university degree) in Modern and contemporary literature, major theatre




• Languages: French (native speaker), English (fluent); Spanish (good knowledge); German (level High School graduation).
• Computer skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, initiation to Photoshop.
• Non-profit organizations commitment:
▪ Creation and presidency of a non-profit organization dedicated to produce a Festival of Eastern Europe music and theatre (work in progress, first issue in March 2007)
▪ Founder member and member of the comity of coordination of AttaCampus, non-profit and apolitical organization of popular education; organization of exhibitions, lectures and debates.
▪ Member of a support organization to an “art et essai” cinema; organization of encounters with movie directors, of trainings in analysis of movies, and operations of mediation.





Enclosure: competences and knowledges


Fund raising: Festival In of Avignon (the largest theatre Festival in Europe), Regional Médiathèque and Artothèque of Pau, Festival num-[art] of Orleans (contemporary music and numerical arts)

- Redaction of partnership dossiers
- Prospecting and selection of potential partners companies and enterprises
- Contact with chargé of communication and following-up
- Participation to the negotiations of contracts
- Contribution to the creation of the “Partners Club”

Realisation and redaction of a survey of prefiguration, Festival num-[art]

- Analysis of territorial and demographic factors
- Analysis of European, national, regional and local policies in favour with contemporary music and numerical arts
- Contribution to the technical and financial project of the site’s equipping
- Public’s characterisation
- Definition of operations of mediation and of diffusion, in the way of a reappropriation of urban space
- Definition of communication actions
- Evaluation of the impact and the influence zone
- Contribution to the elaboration of the organizational and financial plan (estimated budget)

Communication and public relations, theatre “Les Ateliers d’Amphoux”, Avignon

- Organization of press conferences
- Redaction of press reviews
- Conception of written communication documents
- Program diffusion
- Relations with artists and publics.

Other knowledges

- Co-funding systems for cultural projects: to a national scale (state, Conseil Regional, Conseil Général, EPCI, “Maecenas”…) and to an European level (Culture 2000 and 2007, FEDER…)
- International cultural policies
- Subsidies dossiers
- Strategy and marketing of cultural organizations
- Law of artistic and cultural activities
- Cultural industries
- Public and private management


COVER LETTER
Dear Madam,

From the web site idealist.org I learned about your need for an intern to be part of a team responsible for raising funds from corporations, foundations, government agencies and individuals. I am very interested in this internship; indeed I believe that my experience in cultural management and especially in fundraising has provided me with the skills necessary to excel in this position.

My solid background as a director’s assistant within a firm of cultural engineering’s counselling has allowed me to hone, in very concret terms, my approach of cultural management, especially by facing actual cases risen by fundraising activities. As you can see from my resume, I have been involved in the whole process of fundraising, from redacting partnership dossiers and selecting potential partners to concluding contracts. During this eight-month internship, I gained invaluable organizational and managerial experience, as well as the correlative administrative abilities.

Furthermore, I have been in charge with communication for a theatre, in which position I developed considerable social skills and consequently the aptitude to work in a team. Likewise, my numerous commitments in non-profit organizations meaningfully strengthened theses experiences by providing me, throughout my education time, a practical consolidation to my academic knowledge.

Indeed, with a four-year degree in theatrical studies and a fifth year of specialization in cultural management in a top French management school, my education has provided me with in-depth, practical training in the field your organization intervene in. I believe that this combination of knowledge and experience definitely fit the description of the position, and I feel confident of the skill I can bring to your organization.

I will be available from April for an at least five-month internship. However I would be delighted to discuss further with you yours needs and my qualifications for this position.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,