Print, Manuscript

**Print, Manuscript & Published**
**Digitisation Technician**
**APS level 4**

This is an Affirmative Measures opportunity**
This position will be filled using the Affirmative Measure provision, which allows for the
targeted recruitment of Indigenous Australians into the Australian Public Service. The vacancy
is only open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. The filling of this employment
opportunity is intended to constitute an Affirmative Measure under section 8(1) of the Racial
Discrimination Act 1975.

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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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PRINT, MANUSCRIPT & PUBLISHED DIGITISATION
TECHNICIAN

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 257_12/24

Classification APS level 4

No. of vacancies 1

Salary $75,022 - $81,775

Group Collection Services

Area Collection Preservation and Digitisation

Employment Status Ongoing

Hours Full time

Close Date 11.30pm, Tuesday 22 April 2025

Contact Person Donald Sinclair
02 6129 3954

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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**
Preservation and Digitisation (CPD) Program sits within the Collection Services Group. The
purpose of CPD is the preservation through digitisation and production for access of material
that has been accessioned into the AIATSIS Collection. This includes audio, video, film,
photographs, printed material as well as art and objects. CPD delivers: Preservation and
digitisation; creation of digital assets from Collection Material, Digital restoration, printing,
advisory services and technical services. CPD collaborates across AIATSIS to supply digital
material to fulfil client requests and to support projects.

CDC is responsible for engaging with donors and depositors to expand the collection, curating
domestic and international display and exhibitions (online and physical), implementing
collection care practices, facilitating loans and managing the rights and policy environment of
the AIATSIS collection. CDC works closely with the Collection Management, Collection
Preservation and Digitisation and Collection Access teams to support the discoverability and
accessibility of the AIATSIS collection for all Australians.

**Role Summary**
Manuscript, Print & Published Digitisation Technicians work in a small team of specialist
technical staff responsible for the digitisation of the AIATSIS Collections, including rare and
fragile books, manuscripts, maps, ephemera, posters and other documents. This important role
provides the timely delivery of collection digitisation projects to meet known technical standards
and with due regard t