Collection Registration Officer - multiple roles

at  The National Museum of Australia

The Museum has exciting opportunities for highly motivated individuals looking to exercise their collection management experience in a busy and diverse museum environment.
The Museum is recruiting roles across the Collection Care and Management business unit working on a variety of specialist collection management tasks and programs including storage, transport, documentation, audit, acquisitions, exhibition development, installation and de-installation, loans administration, warehouse management and collection rationalisation. The successful applicants will also take the initiative to proactively contribute to the improvement and modernisation of processes and procedures, coordinate established work programs and manage other staff and contractors.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidates will bring experience and knowledge of registration practice in a museum environment, including best practice principles and standards for collection and manual handling, to provide quality services and outcomes.
We are looking for candidates with demonstrated agility and the ability to manage competing and changing priorities within a small team environment and to complete a variety of registration tasks within agreed deadlines to meet project milestones and defined outputs.
The successful candidates will show initiative and strive for improvement, efficiency and growth in their work, their team and themselves. They can be relied upon to follow direction but also use discretion and initiative in delivering daily outcomes and setting priorities, are confident in actively seeking clarification and applying common sense when dealing with ambiguity.
The successful candidates will also work productively and cooperatively in a team environment and have good communication and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive, cooperative and productive working relationships. They will have the capacity to coordinate work programs under direction and enjoy working with diverse and multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders, including managing APS4 staff and supervising contractors.
They will have demonstrated problem solving, high-level analytical skills and well-developed oral and written communications skills.
They will also demonstrate a practical understanding of work health and safety and will be able to apply this to their work.

Key skills and experience required for the position:

• Highly developed knowledge and experience of the operational aspects of a museum registration section; including museum object documentation, coordination and processing of object loans, transport and logistics, exhibition preparation and installation, and associated collection access processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated understanding and practical application of best practice principles and standards for the care and management of collections within a museum environment.
• Demonstrated analytical skills, including the ability to use initiative to innovate and problem-solve.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of requirements for the safe handling, packing and storage of museum objects to current museum standards, and an ability to manage resources in an environment with shifting priorities.
• Well-developed oral and written communications skills including the ability to liaise with Museum staff and external stakeholders and to present accurate and clear information.
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of workplace health and safety and the ability to apply them to work practices.
• Good IT skills including prior experience of collection management systems (CMS) and proven capacity to use a range of information systems and tools to improve efficiency and productivity.
• A driver’s licence is essential due to the transport aspects of these roles.
• A forklift licence is desirable.

The roles will work to deliver static and travelling exhibitions, support the Museum’s loans and digitisation programs. They will also provide improvements to collection management and storage by coordinating and undertaking collection transport, auditing, storage maintenance, packing, crating, internal object movements, documentation and exhibition installation/deinstallations and contributing to other Museum priority projects as required. The Museum is undertaking a rationalisation of its collection, and the roles will also support this project to assess, document and access parts of the collection not recently activated.
All roles will work with the wider Collection Care and Management team, across the division and organisation to deliver team and Museum-wide priorities, providing training and technical support to Collection Care and Management teams and the rationalisation project, and supervising APS4 Registration Assistants.