Team Leader Audio

**Team Leader Audio**
**APS Level 6**

This is an Identified position open to all Australian Citizens

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**Who we are**
We are Australia’s only national institution focused exclusively on the diverse history,
cultures, and heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. We house the
world’s most important and extensive collection of cultural information and material, and
we provide leadership, publish, and promote greater understanding and appreciation of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We create opportunities for people the world
over to engage with and be transformed by the knowledge, the culture, and the story of
Australia’s Indigenous peoples. We are Australia’s national institution for leadership in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research.

**What we do**
We care for a priceless collection, including films, photographs, video, and audio recordings
as well as the world’s largest collection of printed and other resource materials for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies. We undertake and encourage scholarly,
ethical, community-based research in a variety of sectors, including health, native title,
languages, and education. Our publishing house, Aboriginal Studies Press, regularly
publishes outstanding writing that promotes Australian Indigenous cultures.
Our activities affirm and raise awareness of the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories.

Our functions are established under the _Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait _
- Islander Studies Act 1989_.
- These functions are to:

- provide access to a national collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- culture and heritage.
- use that national collection to strengthen and promote knowledge and
- understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage.
- provide leadership in the fields of: 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research; and 
activities relating to collections associated with Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander peoples; and use (including use for research) of that national
collection and other collections containing Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander culture and heritage.
- lead and promote collaborations and partnerships among the academic,

research, non-government, business and government sectors and
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in support of the other
functions of the Institute.
- provide advice to the Commonwealth on the situation and status of Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage.
We are an Australian Government statutory authority.

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TEAM LEADER AUDIO

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 198_09/24

Classification APS Level 6

No. of vacancies 1

Salary $90,199 - $101,022

Group Collection Services

Area Collection Preservation and Digitisation

Employment Status Ongoing

Hours Full Time

Close Date 11.30pm Sunday 22 September 2024

Contact Person Cameron Burns
02 6246 1165

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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**
Preservation and Digitisation (CPD) Program sits within the Collection Services Group. The
purpose of CPD is the preservation through digitisation and production for access of material
that has been accessioned into the AIATSIS Collection. This includes: audio, video, film,
photographs, printed material as well as art and objects. CPD delivers: Preservation and
digitisation; creation of digital assets from Collection Material, Digital restoration, printing,
advisory services and technical services. CPD collaborates across AIATSIS to supply digital
material to fulfil client requests and to support projects.

**About the Role**
The Team Leader, Audio Preservation Digitisation leads a small team of specialist technical
staff responsible for the digitisation of the AIATSIS Collections. This important role provides the
timely delivery of collection digitisation projects to meet documented technical standards and
with due regard to the content and preservation requirements of cultural heritage collection
material. This position reports to the CPD Assistant Director. Key responsibilities of the role
include:

- manage the day-today operations of the Audio Digitisation team, including prioritisation,

workflows, and training.
- coordinate with the Archival Management Unit, Client Access and Family History Unit

and Project teams to deliver high quality digital derivatives of AIATSIS Collection
material.***
- collaborate with the Collection Preservation Digitisation Assistant Director in developing

and implementing operational Roadmap.***
- under limited direction,