Digitisation Technician (Affirmative Measures)

Description:

About the Group
The Strategic Operations Group is an enabling services function providing strategic support to the Institute. The group comprises 5 areas covering Office of the Deputy CEO, People Services, Finance, Digital Services and the Central Australia facility (Mparntwe).
About the Program Area
The Central Australia facility in Alice Springs is the first regional facility for AIATSIS outside of Ngunnawal Country (ACT) and will provide culturally appropriate digitisation and storage capacity along with local training opportunities.
The facility will also enable local preservation of community-held collection materials and increased preservation and repatriation of Indigenous collections and cultural information. The facility will deliver services to improve searching and accessing the AIATSIS Collection, training opportunities and learning opportunities through exploration of our exhibition space and cultural research including family history.
Role Summary
You will join a dedicated team of skilled technical staff, responsible for the preservation of Indigenous collection materials. Your work will be to learn to preserve the cultural heritage collection materials that detail the stories of local and regional Indigenous Communities and individuals. You will receive training and be supported by the Senior Digitisation technician, Assistant Director of the Collections Services, Central Australia, as well as the continuing support of the ICT and Digitisation Teams at Maraga in Canberra.
The key duties of the position include

• processing, documenting, safely handling, packing and moving archival material.
• efficient and careful digitisation of material (for example audio or video tapes) to a high-quality preservation standard.
• learning digitisation techniques to solve preservation problems.
• caring for equipment, hardware and software and bringing issues to the attention of the Team Leader
• by embodying the concept of Yindyamarra, contributing to the achievement of AIATSIS goals and objectives as a member of the Strategic Operations Group.