Assistant Registrar Collections and Access

Full-time, Ongoing, APS 5 position
- $80,341 - $87,572 p.a. plus 15.4% superannuation
- Australia’s leading museum located waterside in beautiful Darling Harbour

The Australian National Maritime Museum is seeking an experienced and innovative Assistant Registrar Collections and Access with an eye for detail to join our Registration team in this full-time, ongoing APS Level 5 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.

The Assistant Registrar Collections and Access plays a key role in assisting the delivery of a digitisation and data capture program to improve access to and use of the Museum's collections for both internal and external collection discovery, management and online initiatives. Create digital content through research, accessioning, cataloguing, blogs and other digital publications and digital media. Improve digital content on the collection through the creation of digital media and data clean-up of object and related records in TMS (CMIS) in line with the digitisation strategy. Contribute to exhibition installation and demount as required.
- Please note: This recruitment process is intended to fill both current and future vacancies. While the position on offer is ongoing, a merit pool of suitable applicants may be established to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing positions within the next 18 months._

**Key Accountabilities**
Under limited direction, this position is responsible for delivering the following functions:

- Assisting in the development and implementation of procedures for collection access and management including accessioning, digitisation, storage, handling, inventory, loan and documentation standards of the NMC and other historic material in the museum's care.
- Initiating and undertaking collection research and cataloguing programs including creating and editing related people, sites and events records for use in collection management and collection discovery initiatives in line with the digitisation strategy and data standards.
- Working independently and in collaboration with other teams, developing collection related content for use in publications and digital outreach programs including online collections and social media.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to respond to public enquires on the collection, resolving moderately complex enquiries and coordinating access to the collection for public.
- Assisting with exhibition development and other outreach programs.

**Selection Criteria**
- Excellent understanding of the role and functions of the Registration team in a major museum.
- Ability to carry out collection-based research, data creation and editing and writing for various audiences including online audiences.
- Current knowledge and understanding of collection digitisation and the ability to digitise historic materials by scanning, uploading and managing digital media.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the capacity to work in small teams and the ability to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Well-developed organisation skills and a demonstrated ability to achieve results within defined timeframes and budget.

**Qualifications and/or relevant experience required**
**Mandatory**:

- Bachelor degree or equivalent qualifications in Museum Studies or a related experience and /or training field.

**Desirable**:

- NSW Driver’s licence.
- Object handling experience.