APS 5 - Senior Technician, Photography

• Opportunity to work at one of Australia's leading cultural institutions
• Be part of a collaborative workplace where specialists can flourish
• Work across a diverse range of projects from the Library’s collections

As a world leading library, the National Library of Australia offers an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library’s team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library’s future.

The Library is seeking to fill an ongoing Senior Technician - Photography APS 5 role in the Digitisation Projects Section of the Collaboration Branch.

This Senior Technician - Photography role is critical to the workflows of the Digitisation Projects team, and the team’s ability to deliver digitised content within required deadlines. In this role you will be responsible for prioritising and triaging the incoming workflows in the photography studio.

As the Senior Technician - Photography you will be required to undertake capture work for Digitisation Projects and the Digitisation on Demand teams, as well as NLA corporate photography work. This capture work includes pre-imaging set up (calibration of equipment) as well as post-processing (quality assurance) work on all images captured and may include out of hours work.

You may be asked to assist the Team Leader with the development of strategies and innovative initiatives to maximise the benefits of change and continuous improvement.
You will also assist with development of internal and external relationships and support internal and external networks as required.

We are looking for a team player with excellent coordination and communication skills who can prioritise their work with limited direction and work in a small team.
Our ideal candidate will have experience handling and photographing cultural collections, including fragile or sensitive collection items, as well as corporate photographic experience. They will have a comprehensive understanding of current international capture standards applied in the context of digital reproductions of cultural materials, as well as an understanding of the Library’s ICIP protocols.

To succeed in this role you must have relevant technical work-related experience in cultural heritage photography, and digital imagery creation and production.
Experience working in or with client service delivery teams is desirable.

We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and mature age people.