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 and accessioning 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.
About the Opportunity

We seek an experienced and solutions focussed Senior Accessioning Officer who is passionate about accessioning and excellence in collection data quality standards to join the Curatorial Operations and Accessioning team. This team is responsible for all of the NFSA’s accessioning functions, Collection data quality and data management, collaboration with curators, the Curatorial and Accessioning team’s infrastructure requirements and National Collection preservation queues and backlogs which represent Australia’s audiovisual experience through the creativity and history represented in film, television, radio, recorded sound, augmented reality, social media, video games and associated contextual documentation and ephemera.

The Senior Accessioning Officer will work closely with the other Senior Accessioning Officer in the Curatorial Accessioning team, both responsible for staff supervision, training, collection data quality across all audiovisual formats and liaison with internal and external stakeholders.

We are seeking someone with experience with and knowledge of Australia’s audiovisual materials and industries in the digital and analogue archiving space a desire to:

- Build and motivate a team of experienced and knowledgeable accessioners through strong leadership and training.

- Improve collection data quality through upholding of standards and practices.
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05/05/2024

Bronwyn Barnett

[email protected]

02 6248 2277

Full Time
Canberra
ACT
$80,430 - $87,572

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