Team Leader Metadata

**Team Leader Metadata &**
**Cataloguing**
**APS Level 6**

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.

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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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TEAM LEADER METADATA & CATALOGUING

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 206_09/24

Classification APS Level 6

No. of vacancies 1

Salary $90,199 - $101,022

Group Collection Services

Area Collection Management

Employment Status Ongoing

Hours 36.75

Close Date 11.30pm Sunday 13 October 2024

Contact Person Rauny Worm

02 6129 3984

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

**Key Responsibilities**
The Team Leader plays a key role in the development, management, and documentation of
AIATSIS collection materials.
Key responsibilities of this role include:

- assessment, accessioning, cataloguing, and describing AIATSIS collection materials.***
- development and review of collection management standards and procedures for
collection materials and the wider AIATSIS collection.
- quality assurance.
- collections research.****:

- communicating and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
- descriptive work may involve
- creating finding aids.
- auditioning.
- captioning.***
- support the Assistant Director.
- contribute to development and implementation of wider program and agency business
plan and policies.***
This work involves the care and management of items with cultural sensitivities.

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**Cultural capability - essential**
Strait Islander p