Assistant Manager Digital Preservation – Australian War Memorial
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770000
- Agency: Australian War Memorial
- Job Title: Assistant Manager Digital Preservation
- Position Number: 26-079
- Classification: APS Level 6
- Closing Date: Wednesday 17 June 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Campbell ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Campbell
- Salary: $99,734 – $111,701
- Office Arrangement: On Site (We support a range of flexible work arrangements in)
About Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial combines a shrine, a world-class museum, and an extensive archive. The Memorial’s purpose is to
commemorate the sacrifice of those Australians who have died in war or on operational service and those who have served our
nation in times of conflict. Its mission is leading remembrance and understanding of Australia’s wartime experience.
Duties
- Under limited supervision:
- Manage and develop technical staff in a cultural heritage digitisation and production
- environment.
- Create and maintain documentation of preservation capture standards as applied to the
- Photograph, Film & Sound collection at the Memorial.
- Liaise and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the delivery of digital preservation and
- production order fulfillment outcomes.
- Ensure optimal operation and maintenance of all digital preservation capture equipment,
- such as moving image, audio, and still image capture equipment.
- Deliver stewardship and knowledge for digital preservation activities associated with both
- analogue and digital born derived assets, including the downstream processes of file
- post-production, transcoding, and metadata management. Ensuring high quality preservation
- assets are created, managed and delivered to the Memorial’s Digital asset Management
- System (DAMS).
- Stay up to date with current capture technology, researching and developing new capture
- solutions.
- Maintain and manage preservation workflows, ensuring end-to-end collection movement,
- digitisation, quality assurance and DAMS ingestion processes are both maintained and
- developed.
- Manage the delivery of production services to both internal and external stakeholders, such
- as fine art printing and content delivery of still and audiovisual digital assets.
- Abide by and further the principles and practices of Work Health and Safety, taking
- reasonable care for their own health and safety and ensuring that their acts or omissions do
- not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons.
Eligibility / Notes
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to
- be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).
- All applicants external to AWM that are offered employment will be required to successfully
- undergo a National Police Check, even if they currently hold a security clearance. The check
- is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy
- Framework requirements.
- Mandatory Requirements
- Equivalent industry Experience
- Driver’s Licence
How to Apply
Position Contact Bob McKendry, (02) 6206 9807
Agency Recruitment Site https://www.awm.gov.au/get-involved/employment
Applicants to vacancies notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette should be aware:
that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
Veterans’ Affairs (part of the Defence
Portfolio)
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