Collection Digital Services Officer

Posted: 18/07/2025
- Closing Date: 01/08/2025
- Salary: $84,228.00 - $91,809.00
- Job Type: Temporary
- Location: Canberra
- Job Category: Arts, Culture

**About the National Film and Sound Archive**
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, telling the national story by collecting, preserving and sharing audiovisual media, the cultural experience platforms of our time. The collection itself dates back to 1935, making it one of the world’s oldest audiovisual collections. It is also one of the country’s most used cultural collections, with around 125 million views of collection content each year. The NFSA is in a period of significant change. Following increased Government investment, the institution is in a process of digital transformation, establishing the NFSA as Australia’s most dynamic and valued cultural organisation. We are rebuilding our curatorial workforce and developing the NFSA’s capacity to digitise our collection at scale - to preserve it for the future, to make sure it can be discovered, and to share it with all Australians.

We continue to work on developing a stable, secure and future-proof workforce across our four physical sites based in Canberra and Mitchell in the ACT as well as in Sydney and Melbourne.

We are an ambitious organisation, and we aim to be an employer of choice within the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector, providing exciting and challenging work, as well as favourable employment conditions and unique development opportunities for our staff.

**Cultural Values**
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At the NFSA we prioritise the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia is committed to ensuring a child-safe and child-friendly environment. All employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to, and support for these principles in theory and practice.

**About the Team**
The Collection Digital Services team is part of the Digital Preservation section of the Digital Branch. The team is responsible for digital preservation processes relating to the National Film and Sound Archive Digital Collection and Games, Software and Interactive Media for the purpose of long-term preservation, distribution, access and public value.

The Digital Preservation team actively engages community and stakeholders by providing digital preservation advice, developing and implementing technical standards and effective workflows, training and knowledge sharing.

**The Opportunity**
- Please note: The position on offer is temporary for 2-months with the possibility of an extension._

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

- Provide high-level technical advice to staff and external stakeholders from television broadcast, film and audio production and interactive entertainment industries and academic collaborators.
- Test and evaluate contemporary and obsolete equipment, systems and hardware/software to automate and support digital acquisitions and digitisation.
- Provide technical input into the development, implementation and documentation of efficient and effective digital preservation workflows to meet work area priorities.
- Assist in maintaining and updating the NFSA’s digital collection and digitisation for preservation technical specifications, ensuring preservation standards meet best archiving practice and the reuse needs of the NFSA’s customers.
- Work closely with global digital preservation community to identify and prioritise at-risk digital material and develop processes and plans to ensure ongoing preservation and access.
- Undertake appropriate administrative tasks and reporting including:

- advising on resource planning and implications,
- drafting procedures,
- undertaking research and analysis; and
- providing input into project plans.

**Selection Criteria**
- Demonstrated knowledge of historical analogue audiovisual material, games and interactive media, digital objects and carrier formats, postproduction techniques and digital delivery, as it relates to collecting institutions.
- Highly developed conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail with a solutions-based approach to meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to develop, implement and document efficient and effective digital workflows in line with best practice standards, resources and priorities.
- Well-developed written and oral communication skills includin