Archive Project Officer – Digitisation (Outback Archive)

The Broken Hill Outback Archive is a nationally significant collection, located in Australia’s first nationally heritage listed city. The archive collection reflects the history and development of Broken Hill and the Far West, including mining and union history, and is comprised of documents, photographic items, objects, textiles, botanical specimens and more.

This newly created position will manage the delivery of a digitisation project aimed at preserving vulnerable items in the Outback Archive collection. The Archive Project Officer – Digitisation will oversee the selection, documentation, cataloguing, repackaging and processing of collection items that will be sent externally for digitisation. The position will make extensive use of our collection management system (Axiell Emu) to catalogue all aspects of digitised items and will be responsible for manual handling of fragile items. This is a well renumerated and interesting opportunity for an experienced candidate from the GLAM sector to make a real difference to a heritage collection.