Conservator

1 month ago

Sydney, Australia Australian National Maritime Museum Full time

APS 5 - Total Remuneration Package - $83,351 - $89,121
- Attractive employee benefits including 15.4% superannuation
- Australia’s leading museum located waterside in beautiful Darling Harbour

The Australian National Maritime Museum is seeking an experienced and highly organised Conservator to join our Conservation team in this ongoing position.

As one of Sydney’s most visited museums, the Australian National Maritime Museum shares our national maritime story across Australia and the world, online, onsite and through research, presentations and travelling exhibitions, and provides must-visit museum experiences that delight and inspire.

We connect our visitors with the oceans and waterways that are the heartbeat of who we are. From deep time to modern Australian and beyond, we explore our past, our present and future as an island nation shaped by sea, offering a sustainable and cohesive vision for the future.

The Museum welcomes over 2.5 million local, interstate and international visitors annually, and is supported by a thriving and passionate staff, membership, volunteer and education base. Find out more at sea.museum

Reporting to the Manager, Conservation and working with Senior Conservators the Conservator will undertake and document routine and complex conservation treatments for a wide range of object materials and formats in the National Maritime Collection (NMC) ensuring its ongoing preservation is in accordance with museum policies, priorities, conservation ethics and best practice.

**High level overview of accountabilities**:

- Working under general direction undertake and document preservation, conservation and restoration treatments using established and new conservation techniques to museum and professional standards.
- Participate in wider inter-disciplinary museum teams and contribute conservation expertise to project and program management, such as the production and development of exhibitions, inward and outward loans, and storage design.
- Participate and assist with preventive conservation and collection maintenance programmes including environmental monitoring and control, integrated pest management, lighting, pollutant monitoring, collection safety activities.
- Undertake collection surveys including condition and conservation needs assessment, as well as identification and management of hazards in the NMC, help to ensure museums compliance with relevant regulations and WHS legislation.
- Participate in risk assessment and management for museum projects and in object treatment option proposals. Identify risk factors, propose, and implement risk mitigation. Actively participate in maintaining WHS processes especially the development of safe work method statements.
- Assist and participation in the development and delivery of workshops, public forums and outreach programs and social media engagement related to conservation. Preparation and delivery of training, seminars, talks and tours as needed, representing the museum at internal and external functions, events and conferences. Participate in the management of interns and volunteers when required.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Recognised tertiary qualifications in materials conservation and minimum two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in cultural heritage conservation.
- Experience from cultural institutions undertaking preventive and remedial conservation of different collection and material types, with a focus on an area of specialisation as relevant to the National Maritime Collection.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the capacity to work collaboratively in and lead small teams and to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders, prepare and deliver talks and presentations.
- Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM) Membership

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