About 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 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.The Opportunity The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's (NFSA) Indigenous Connections team is looking for a highly motivated Project Coordinator to work as part of a small team to assist in delivering a diverse range of programs and projects that amplify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and centre First Nations perspectives across the NFSA's collection related activities.
Working closely with the Manager, Indigenous Connections, the Project Coordinator will be responsible for undertaking a variety of tasks to coordinate Indigenous Connections team activities including providing support for collection acquisition, repatriation of collection content, and assisting the curation and production of engagement activities.
The role requires an excellent communicator with high-level research and administrative skills, someone who can embrace and contribute to change, and excels in managing a variety of tasks and priorities.
The position requires previous experience with an appreciation of the NFSA's operating environment and the audiovisual industry and/or cultural sector more broadly- whilst recognising that audiovisual archiving is a specialised field, and a transferable skill set is a consideration.