Assistant Director Collection Management

**Assistant Director Collection**
**Management - Photographic and**
**Audio-Visual Materials**
**Executive level 1**

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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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR COLLECTION
MANAGEMENT - PHOTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIO
- VISUAL MATERIALS

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 246_11/24

Classification Executive level 1

No. of vacancies 1

Salary $110,115 - $120,025

Group Collection Services

Area Collection Management

Employment Status Ongoing

Hours Full time

Close Date 11.30pm, Sunday 01 December 2024

Contact Person Rauny Worm
0408 722 848

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**About the Group**
The Collection 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 the Collection Development and Care; the Collection
Preservation and Digitisation; and the Collection Access teams to support the discoverability
and accessibility of the AIATSIS collection for all Australians.

**Role Summary**
The Assistant Director, Audiovisual (AV) and Photographic Unit is a key leadership position
within the Collection Management program. The Assistant Director will work collaboratively
with the broader leadership group to achieve the goals of the program and the organisation,
including, making the AIATSIS collection discoverable and accessible in culturally appropriate
ways. The Assistant Director will be solution focused, show initiative, practice sound judgement,
people with knowledge and experience in collection development and management,
cataloguing and metadata standards, accessioning, arrangement and description of collection
material, collection care and library and collection management systems, project management,
and / or** **copyright and Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights.***

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

- managing and leading the operation of the unit, including undertaking detailed

administration and reporting, resource management, staff management and
development, recruitment, and unit plann