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About the Role
The Assistant Curator will support the Curator - Civic Collection in managing the City of Sydney’s Civic Collection, ensuring its preservation, cataloguing, interpretation, acquisition, and presentation. Responsibilities include supporting collection displays, conducting research, maintaining curatorial information systems, and coordinating the Curatorial Advisory Panel for a unique and highly valued collection.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the management of the City of Sydney’s Civic Collection
- Ensuring the preservation, cataloguing, interpretation, acquisition and presentation of the collection
- Supporting the display of the collection
- Conducting research
- Maintaining and updating the curatorial information systems
- Supporting the coordination of the Curatorial Advisory Panel
Requirements
- Passionate about the material history of the City and the stewardship of its Civic Collection
- Relevant qualifications or equivalent experience in art history, museum studies, curatorship, cultural heritage management, or a related field
- Experience working with visual and decorative arts, as well as objects of historical and heritage significance
- Confident using collection management databases and applying contemporary collection management practices
- Enjoys conducting research and contributing to exhibitions, publications, public programs and collection interpretation
- Strong project management, administrative and organisational skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities
- Proactive, detail-oriented and committed to the preservation, care and presentation of cultural collections
- Values engaging with the community through meaningful access to and interpretation of collections
- Must complete a pre-employment health declaration and a criminal history check
Skills
- Collection management databases
- Contemporary collection management practices
- Project management
- Administrative skills
- Organisational skills
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
Salary/Compensations
- $117,487 - $131,845 per annum plus superannuation
Benefits
- Option of a rostered day off each month (19-day month)
- Flexible working
- 3 days of care and cultural leave each year
- Collaborative approach to flexible working
- City centre head office with many public transport options
- Professional development opportunities
- Leadership and management development program
- Further education program providing reimbursement of course fees, and study and exam leave
- Opportunity to attend external courses and conferences
- Long service and employee recognition awards
- Employee assistance program offering free, confidential counselling
- 26 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents
- Paid and unpaid adoption and long-term fostering leave
- Paid superannuation for up to 52 weeks of parental leave
- Part-time and job-sharing options available
- Supportive return-to-work environment
About the Company
- Caring for our city, creating a future for all
- Passionate about their communities and connected to their teams
- Motivated by a genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Clear, compelling plan for our global city: Sustainable Sydney 2030 – 2050 Continuing the Vision
- Purpose-led organisation with care at its core
- Make a difference by acting in the best interests of our communities and city
- Be better together with collaborative and inclusive partnerships
- Embrace possibilities and be open to new ideas and creating bold solutions
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome candidates from all backgrounds in a workplace as diverse as our communities.
- Passionate about gender balance, with an executive team two-thirds female and half of leadership roles held by women.
- All applicants, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, veterans and people of diverse sexualities and genders, and those from culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to join us.
- We’re a disability confident recruiter.