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Canberra, Australia Digital Preservation Coalition Full time

Vacancy for Changeable and Digital Collections Officer at National Museum of Australia

13 August 2023

Canberra, ACT

$76,250.00 - $80,855.00

Fixed Term

The Museum has an exciting opportunity for a professional to join the Collection Engagement Business Unit, providing quality training and support to Museum staff in the use and development of its collection information systems.

The Collection Engagement business unit focuses on the current and future processes supporting engagement with the Museum’s collections, including building capacity to manage, store and preserve digital collection material. The Collection Engagement business unit encompasses the diverse range of activities which make the Museum’s collections discoverable. These include collection documentation, collection imaging and digitisation, supporting and developing the Museum’s Collection Management System (EMu) and Digital Asset Management System (Piction), managing associated IP rights, managing the Library and Archive collections and providing public access to the collection – both online and on-site in the Museum’s collection stores. The business unit also includes a First Nations Collections section, which is responsible for repatriation, facilitating First Nations community access to collections, and enhancing the knowledge of the First Nations collections held by the Museum.

The Collection Engagement business unit works closely with the Curatorial team, who set the intellectual framework for collection development, and the Collection Care and Management team who are responsible for collection conservation, storage and related logistics.

This position plays a critical role in undertaking activities that build and support the Museum’s capacity to collect, document, store and conserve the Museum’s Changeable and Digital collections. These collections comprise material that is dynamic, variable, ephemeral, audio visual and digital (born-digital or digitised). This role undertakes a broad range of tasks that contribute to the development of workflows and procedures for acquiring, managing, preserving and providing access to NMA Changeable and Digital collection materials. In conjunction, this role undertakes necessary collection documentation work, such as research related to collection objects, the verification and updating of item records in the CMS (EMu) and minor digital preservation condition activities. You will work with internal stakeholders across Discovery and Collections to enhance the Museum’s digital collecting capacity and ambition. You will also develop and maintain associated training documentation including manuals and technical proformas.

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