Department of Internal Affairs NZ Hiring for Assistant Curator Job at Wellington Full Time

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• Exciting opportunity to work as part of the Turnbull Library’s Curatorial Team on cross team projects with analogue, digitised and born-digital archival and special collections in various formats.
• Help promote and share the history of Aotearoa New Zealand through the ongoing development of the Turnbull collections.
• Be part of a holistic system, working collaborating to improve the representation of all New Zealanders, especially those who have been historically underrepresented in the Library’s collections.

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced cultural heritage professional to join the Alexander Turnbull Library’s Curatorial Services Team. In this role you will report to the New Zealand and Pacific Publications Curator and work collaboratively with staff across the Turnbull Library and the National Library to ensure the smooth functioning of our curatorial functions, including donor relationships, acquisitions workflows, appraisal, and special projects to improve collections management and access to and use of the Library’s collections. In this role you will work as a key contributor to the Curatorial Team, assisting with donor and researcher correspondence, appraisal and accessioning of new and backlog collections, identifying collections for digitisation, archival processing, and other key Library projects.Expertise in Newspaper and serial formats would be advantageous to this role.

To be successful in the role you will have:

• Ability to work or quickly learn to work across archival formats, particularly newspapers and serials, and on wider cross-Library projects.
• The talent to communicate effectively with wide-ranging audiences and communities.
• Experience working with cultural heritage collections in a Library, Archives or similar organisation and demonstrated understanding of the balance between ‘protecting privacy and copyright’ and ‘facilitating access to collections’.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and engagement with archival theories and principles, especially strong appraisal, accessioning, as well as arrangement and description experience and knowledge.
• Experience of working with donors and an ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with donors and dealers, your team, the wider business, and documentary heritage sector colleagues