APS5 Ongoing, Registration Officer APS5 Non-ongoing until 30 June 2025, Registration Officer with the possibility of extension APS5 Non-ongoing until 30 June 2025, Registration Officer with the possibility of extension The National Museum of Australia is dedicated to preserving and sharing Australia's diverse stories, cultures and histories.Our mission is to engage all Australians in meaningful dialogue and reflection while honouring the unique heritage of our First Nations peoples.In our efforts to engage both domestically and internationally, we collaborate with First Nations communities, as well as global cultural institutions, to foster cross-cultural dialogue and ensure a holistic representation of Australia's diverse heritage.Guided by values of truth-telling and honesty, inclusion, fairness and equity, innovation and efficiency, excellence and leadership and the quality of our welcome, we strive to inspire, challenge, and empower individuals to find their voice and place in the world.Our priorities focus on amplifying First Nations voices, connecting diverse audiences, telling compelling stories, fostering collaboration and ensuring our institution's resilience and sustainability for generations to come.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.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.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.To apply Applicants must include a two (2) page pitch addressing their suitability for the role against the essential and desirable Skills, experience and qualifications in this position application pack.Please include a CV as well as name and contact details for two (2) referees.Visit http://www.nma.gov.au/about/employment and apply online.