Assistant Director Governance

Posted: 08/05/2025
- Closing Date: 25/05/2025
- Salary: $116,221.00 - $125,832.00
- Job Type: Ongoing / Non-ongoing; Full time
- Location: Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne
- Job Category: Administration,Policy

**About the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia**

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 also undergoing a program of business improvement for many of our corporate systems to improve efficiency and reduce manual handling.

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 Governance team is part of Corporate Branch. The team provides secretariate support and reporting to the NFSA Board and Executive on the agency’s reporting and compliance obligations under the under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013. It has oversight of the performance framework, risk management, internal audit, whole of government processes, organisational planning and policy management. The team manages the NFSA’s accountability and performance obligations, including preparation of the organisation’s Corporate Plan and Annual Report.

The team also provides support across the agency in the development of strategic planning and policy advice.

**The Opportunity**

The Assistant Director Governance will provide high level support to the Executive and Board in the development of the NFSA’s corporate governance framework including providing secretariat support to the Board and its subcommittees, assisting with the development of strategic and corporate plans and managing the NFSA’s accountability and performance obligations, including preparation of the NFSA Annual Report.
- Please note: This recruitment process is intended to fill both current and future vacancies. While the position on offer is ongoing, a merit pool of suitable applicants may be established to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing positions within the next 18 months._

**Key Responsibilities/Duties**

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

- Provide high-level assistance to the Senior Executive and Board in the preparation of the NFSA’s corporate governance framework including development, implementation and monitoring of the Corporate Plan and the Annual Report.
- Undertake performance reporting against the corporate governance framework to ensure the effective delivery of, and compliance with the NFSA’s accountability obligations and strategic and corporate goals and objectives.
- Oversee liaison, research and coordination of whole of government and portfolio issues including ministerial briefs, responses to requests for information, senate estimates briefing and responses to Questions on Notice.
- Manage the NFSA’s internal audit processes, risk management and policy registers.
- Support the role and objectives of the NFSA, including undertaking research, policy development and analysis.
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