The Ukrainian Cultural Fund named a candidate for the position of executive director

Ukrainian Cultural Fund

The Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation named four candidates for the position of executive director of the institution. On September 11, the stage of interviews will take place, where possible development programs of the UKF will be heard.

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Interviews will begin at 9:10 a.m. and will last approximately until 11:50 a.m. This stage included all the participants of the competition who submitted documents:

• Anastasia Obraztsova — director of the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies (interview starts at 9:10 a.m.);
• Iryna Osadcha — cultural manager, deputy of the first director of the UKF Yulia Fediv and her successor Vladyslav Berkovskyi (interview starts at 9:50 a.m.);
• Julia Fedets — producer of STB TV channel (interview starts at 10:30 a.m.);
• ️Galina Yerko — a politician, a member of the Kyiv Regional Council (the interview starts at 11:10 a.m.).

“Experienced specialists who have demonstrated a high level of professional competence and readiness to perform strategic tasks are applying for the key post of the institution.”– said in UKF.

The interview with each of the applicants will last 40 minutes, 20 of which should be devoted to the presentation of the Development Program of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, taking into account the Strategy of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation for 2024-2027.

You can participate in open interviews both online and offline. To listen to candidates live, you need to fill out a short questionnaire. You can listen to the online competition on the UKF YouTube channel.

Why the competition was delayed

At the end of July, UKF canceled the previous competition for the position of executive director and started a new one. The reason was that preselection candidates submitted an incomplete package of documents.

After that, changes were made to the competitive selection in the Supervisory Board of the UKF. To participate, it is necessary to provide a document on the command of a foreign language, which is one of the official languages ​​of the Council of Europe. The contestant’s level must be at least B2. Previously, the conditions stipulated that only certificates of international standards were provided.

As Nataliya Kryvda, head of the Supervisory Board, explained at the time, the biggest problem arose with language certificates: “The need to submit an international certificate for participation in the competitive selection caused significant difficulties and misunderstandings, as it is quite difficult to obtain such a certificate today in Ukraine in the conditions of war. Therefore, striving to be democratic, we decided to make changes to the requirements for the position of executive director of the UKF in order to provide equal opportunities to all candidates and preserve the transparency of the competitive selection“.

About the Ukrainian Cultural Fund

Ukrainian Cultural Fund – a state institution that finances art projects through competitive selections and the provision of grants. The Supervisory Board is one of the governing bodies of the UKF.

In March 2024, Natalia Kryvda replaced to the position of chairman of the Supervisory Board, and in February Ministry of Culture and Information Policy approved the new composition Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund. The following were elected to it:

• From the President of Ukraine – director-artistic director of the Kyiv Academic Theater of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of the Dnipro Olesya Zhurakivska and general director of the Ukrainian Institute Volodymyr Sheyko;
• From MKIP – v. at. general director-artistic director of the National Ensemble of Soloists “Kyivska Camerata” Bohdana Pivnenko and general director of FILM.UA Group Victoria Yarmoshchuk;
• From cultural institutions – the general director-artistic director of the Kherson Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after M. Kulisha Oleksandr Book and general director of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War Yury Savchuk;
• From public associations – the director of the limited liability company “PPV Network of Knowledge” Volodymyr Borobeiand the head of the public organization “Ukrainer” Bohdan Logvinenko.

The renewal of the Supervisory Board was preceded by a scandal: the previous composition of the Supervisory Board was formed at the end of 2020, but already in May 2021 cultural figures accused the Supervisory Board of the UKF of manual management and demanded from Volodymyr Zelenskyi to dissolve the Supervisory Board of the UKF and cancel its decision.

The controversial Supervisory Board worked until the end of its term of office – until the end of 2023.

And already in January 2024 online rating voting has started for four applicants from cultural institutions and public associations to the Supervisory Board of the UCF.