Job title: Managing Registrar Collection Access
Company: Australian National Maritime Museum
Job description:
- APS 6 – Total Remuneration Package – $90,022 – $101,562
- Attractive employee benefits including 15.4% superannuation
- Australia’s leading museum located waterside in beautiful Darling Harbour
The Australian National Maritime Museum is seeking a qualified and experienced Managing Registrar Collection Access to join our Collections and Access team in this ongoing APS 6 position.
As one of Sydney’s most visited museums, the Australian National Maritime Museum shares our national maritime story across Australia and the world, online, onsite and through research, presentations and travelling exhibitions, and provides must-visit museum experiences that delight and inspire.
We connect our visitors with the oceans and waterways that are the heartbeat of who we are. From deep time to modern Australian and beyond, we explore our past, our present and future as an island nation shaped by sea, offering a sustainable and cohesive vision for the future.
The Museum welcomes over 2.5 million local, interstate and international visitors annually, and is supported by a thriving and passionate staff, membership, volunteer and education base. Find out more at
Working within the Collections and Access team this position helps preserve and share the Museum’s National Maritime Collection (NMC). This position will manage risk to historic objects during movement, installation, use in programs and exhibitions, and in storage. Managing a team and projects the Managing Registrar Collections and Access will deliver high quality care, documentation and security of the collection and other maritime historic material in the Museum’s care, while balancing access to the collection with preservation.
If the salary meets your requirements and you are ready for that next step, please apply by addressing the selection criteria providing a Cover Letter and CV.
High level overview of accountabilities:
- Developing and implementing procedures and policies for collection operations and access, including object transport and storage, object handling, security, and inventory in compliance with industry best practice.
- Identifying future collection storage requirements and developing and implementing programs for collection storage improvements with a focus on object care, storage efficiency and in support of collection access programs.
- Collaborating with exhibition and program stakeholders on the movement and installation of objects, advising on their safe display, transport, and handling and exhibition project phasing and object delivery and install schedules.
- Collaborating with the Managing Registrar Collection Management to ensure that the documentation of historic material in the Museum’s care is of a high standard for control, management, and access, and in compliance with relevant legislation and protocols.
- Ensuring a regular program of collection inventories to improve object accountability and maximising opportunities to coordinate collection rehousing and digitisation to improve collection care and access.
- Managing the registration aspects of the Museum’s exhibitions; providing input into exhibition content and scheduling; creating and managing exhibition documentation; providing advice and information related to managing exhibition freight (including international); providing advice and information for internal and external stakeholders and undertaking complex negotiations and arrangements for shipment and object handling.
Selection Criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and museum studies qualifications or related experience and/or training.
- Comprehensive understanding of the role of a Collection and Access or registration team and experience and a detailed operational knowledge of the collection management and documentation requirements and processes involved in a museum or similar institution.
- Demonstrated experience and practical knowledge of the physical, legal, and commercial requirements for the acquisition, loan, movement, and storage of museum material.
- Skills and knowledge of collection management applications and digital assets management systems and their application to online programs.
- High level communication skills, organisational skills and be able to meet deadlines.
- Experience supervising a team and be able to work both within a team and independently.
- Current NSW driver’s licence, and current forklift, working at heights and traffic management licence would be an advantage.
Applications Close: 3pm AEST, Tuesday 19th March 2024. No Applications will be accepted by mail or email.
Selection for this position will be made on the basis of relative merit which will be assessed against each item of the selection criteria. Applications that do not address the selection criteria will not be considered for short listing by the Selection Committee. As part of the selection process the selection committee may invite candidates to undertake psychometric test, you should advise the selection committee if you have any special needs. Psychometric tests may be used as the initial short-listing test or later in the selection process. Some tests are very short while others may take one or more hours.
This position is open to all eligible members of the community, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability and people from every cultural and linguistic background. To be an eligible member of the community, you must be an Australian citizen. Applications may be accepted from Australian permanent residents who are in the process of acquiring Australian citizenship.
Expected salary: $90022 – 101562 per year
Location: Darling Harbour, NSW
Job date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:00:04 GMT
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