Curatorial & Collection Research (Aps Mobility Opportunity)

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Canberra, Australia National Library of Australia Full time

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**EL1 - Assistant Director, Curatorial & Collection Research (APS Mobility Opportunity)**:

- Lead a passionate and knowledgeable team and support the building of the National Library collection
- Opportunity to join one of Australia’s leading cultural institutions
- Non-Ongoing opportunity available from 28 January 2025 to 19 January 2026

As a world leading library, the National Library of Australia offers an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library’s team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library’s future.

We are seeking to fill the **Assistant Director, Curatorial & Collection Research role** in the Library’s Collections Branch for a period of 12 months.

As the Assistant Director, Curatorial & Collection Research you will lead a team of staff in the Curatorial Support Unit, overseeing a range of curatorial and research programs to shape and build the National Library collection. The Curatorial Support unit drives a range of collecting activities in alignment with the Library’s collecting strategy through a range of collecting activities. This includes seeking and selecting material from offers, sales and auctions, building relationships with potential donors, vendors and publishers, and supporting commissioning of works for the collection. You will lead specific collection-building projects with strategic selection, acquisition and description considerations.

In this role you will also support other key Library programs involving public, researcher and special interest group access to collections, including the exhibitions and loans programs, fellowships and scholarship recipients, and digitisation projects.

Your responsibilities also encompass strategic and business planning, performance management, mentoring and identifying development needs across the section. You will also undertake objective, systematic analysis to support effective monitoring and reporting, identification of any critical gaps and development of proposed solutions.

**The Opportunity**

This role is only available to ongoing National Library of Australia and APS employees as a temporary transfer at level and/or a temporary performance (Acting) opportunity for immediate filling until January 2026.

Please discuss the possibility of release with your manager before applying.

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