Digitisation Technician

**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.

AIATSIS Application Pack APS4 Digitisation Technician**| 1**

**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.

AIATSIS Application Pack APS4 Digitisation Technician**| 2**

DIGITISATION TECHNICIAN

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 46_03/25

Classification APS level 4

No. of vacancies 3

Salary $75,022 - $81,775

Group Strategic Operations

Area Alice Springs

Employment Status Non-Ongoing

Hours Full time

Close Date 11.30pm, Sunday 18 May 2025

Contact Person Penny Watson
08 8950 1578

AIATSIS Application Pack APS4 Digitisation Technician**| 3**

**About the Group**
The Strategic Operations Group is an enabling services function providing strategic support to
the Institute. The group comprises 5 areas covering Office of the Deputy CEO, People Services,
Finance, Digital Services and the Central Australia facility (Mparntwe).

**About the Program Area**
The Central Australia facility in Alice Springs is the first regional facility for AIATSIS outside of
Ngunnawal Country (ACT) and will provide culturally appropriate digitisation and storage
capacity along with local training opportunities.
The facility will also enable local preservation of community-held collection materials and
increased preservation and repatriation of Indigenous collections and cultural information. The
facility will deliver services to improve searching and accessing the AIATSIS Collection, training
opportunities and learning opportunities through exploration of our exhibition space and
cultural research including family history.

**Role Summary**
You will join a dedicated team of skilled technical staff, responsible for the preservation of
Indigenous collection materials. Your work will be to learn to preserve the cultural heritage
collection materials that detail the stories of local and regional Indigenous Communities and
individuals. You will receive training and be supported by the Senior Digitisation technician,
Assistant Director of the Collections Services, Central Australia, as well as the continuing
support of the ICT and Digitisation Teams at Maraga in Canberra.**

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

- processing, documenting, safely handling, packing and moving archival material.
- efficient and careful digitisation of material (for example audio or video tapes) to a high
- quality preservation standard.
- learning digitisation techniques to solve preservation problems.
- caring for equipment, hardware and software and bringing issues to the attention of the
- Team Leader
- b