MiBACT has no staff for areas affected by the 2016 earthquake. And it urgently seeks 15 professionals

It is a situation that we have reported several times on these pages, with articles and interviews: the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism has serious staffing gaps in the areas of central Italy affected by the August 2016 earthquake. And now the MiBACT, accepting a note from the General Directorate of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape that officially certified the staffing shortage, is seeking to strike a remedy with an urgent interpellation to find as many as 15 professionals to devote to the earthquake-affected areas.

Theinterpellation, in particular, seeks one official for the legal area, two officials in charge of tenders and contracts, one official for the communication, web and social media area, as many as six officials in charge of verification and authorization of reconstruction interventions, two administrative assistants in charge of accounting, two technical assistants to support the RUP (Single Procedure Manager) and one assistant for the management secretariat area. MiBACT’s call is addressed to all central and peripheral offices and institutes, from which the head office is therefore asking for cooperation: excluded from the call are only professionals newly hired following competitive procedures (they are in fact required to comply with the three-year permanence constraint in the first assignment office).

MiBACT institutes have until June 12 to let headquarters, the General Directorate of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape and the Special Superintendent for the areas affected by the earthquake know if there are professionals in the various offices located throughout Italy who are interested in serving for central Italy. Will this urgent call for applications (it was published on June 5: so MiBACT is only giving its offices one week to get the names in) improve the situation? That is what one hopes, since reconstruction cannot wait any longer.

Pictured: Rescue of works from the Annunziata parish church in Arquata del Tronto (photo National Fire Department)

MiBACT has no staff for areas affected by the 2016 earthquake. And it urgently seeks 15 professionals

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