Team Leader Metadata and Cataloguing

**Team Leader Metadata and**
**Cataloguing**
**APS level 6**

This is an Identified position open to all Australian Citizens

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**Our Journey**
AIATSIS has a proud identity as Australia’s only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led
national cultural institution that celebrates, educates, and inspires people from all walks of life
to connect with the rights, knowledge, cultures and stories of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples. We play a vital role in developing deeper and shared understandings of
our Nation’s history and future on Australia’s truth-telling journey, working towards collective
healing.

In 2024, AIATSIS celebrates our 60th anniversary and reflects on our evolution as an
organisation during that time. Over the next five years, our operating environment will continue
to change, and we must position ourselves to respond to this change.

**Our Vision**
To create a world in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights, knowledge,
cultures and stories are recognised, respected, celebrated and valued.

**Our Purpose**
We are the only national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural institution solely
dedicated to telling the story of Australia’s First Nations peoples.

We collect, steward and appropriately share Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’
knowledge through our collection, our leadership in research and our network of collaborations
and partnerships by:

- Creating opportunities for everyone to encounter, engage with and be transformed by

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights, knowledge, cultures and stories.
- Enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural vitality; and
- Shaping our national narrative.

Our functions are established under the _Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait _
- Islander Studies Act 1989_.

AIATSIS is a statutory authority under the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth) and a Corporate
Commonwealth entity under the PGPA Act.

AIATSIS employees are employed under the Public Service Act 1999, with terms and conditions
of employment as set out in the AIATSIS Enterprise Agreement.

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TEAM LEADER METADATA AND CATALOGUING

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 260_12/24

Classification APS level 6

No. of vacancies 1

Salary $90,199 - $101,022

Group Collection Services

Area Collection Management

Employment Status Ongoing

Hours Full time

Close Date 11.30pm, Wednesday 15 January 2025

Contact Person Alana Harris
02 6261 4220

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**About the Group**
The Collections Services Group is responsible for the development, management, and
preservation of the AIATSIS Collection. The Group manages, describes, preserves, and digitises
the AIATSIS Collection.

**About the Program Area**
The Collection Management Program sits within the Collection Services Group. Collection
Management consists of the Audiovisual and Photographic Unit and the Print and Published
Unit. Key operational activities of the program include cataloguing, accessioning, and describing
the AIATSIS Audiovisual, Photographic, Manuscript and Published collections to enhance
discoverability of, and access to, these collections for all Australians. Collection Management
works closely with Collection Development and Care, Collection Preservation and Digitisation,
and Collection Access teams to support the discoverability and accessibility of the AIATSIS
collection for all Australians.

**Role Summary**
The Team Leader plays a key role in the development, management and documentation of
AIATSIS collection materials. This work involves but is not limited to
- assessment, accessioning, cataloguing and describing AIATSIS collection materials.
- development and review of collection management standards and procedures for
- collection materials and the wider AIATSIS collection.
- quality assurance.
- collections research.
- communicating and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
- descriptive work, including creating finding aids, auditioning, and captioning depending
- on the format of material.
- support the Assistant Director and contribute to development and implementation of

wider program and agency business plan, policies and procedures.
The work involves the care and management of items with cultural sensitivities.

**Key Responsibilities**
Key responsibilities of the role include:

- collaborate with the Assistant Director in managing the workflow including prioritising,

allocating and undertaking the collection development and management activities, as
well as monitoring and reporting on the unit’s key performance indicators.
- undertake a review or development of policy, standards and procedural documents.
- conduct research on collection materials and report its outcomes, including consulting
- and commu