Collections Manager
- Provide strategic leadership for the direction and development of the museum's collection.
- Manage the Collections team and ensure high-quality documentation of the collection.
- Create strategic plans for future collecting strategies and innovative preservation approaches.
The National Communication Museum (NCM) is a new not-for-profit museum that opened in September 2024 exploring the past, present and future technologies that connect us. Positioned between culture and industry, NCM is building a new creative technology network in Australia.
NCM acts as a bridge between culture and technology, fostering experimentation, risk-taking, and mentorship in emerging fields. By commissioning artists to recontextualise and re-imagine museum spaces, archives, and collections, NCM demonstrates new methodologies for engaging with museums.
The National Communication Museum (NCM) is the custodian of the significant technology collection that spans over 150 years of Australian telecommunications history. A state-of-the-art warehouse facility in Dandenong South houses the central collection of material artefacts and technologies. The main store combines a traditional warehouse infrastructure with complex and specialised storage areas capable of housing this diverse collection.Leveraging their expertise leading collections portfolios, this role is responsible for preserving, rationalising and reinterpreting NCM's current holdings, ensuring a high quality, consolidated and meticulously documented collection is achieved. Working collaboratively with leadership and curatorial, this role will create the strategic plan and future collecting strategy to develop a world-class collection.
The ideal candidate should have deep knowledge and expertise working with technology collections and be up to date on trends and research around groundbreaking preservations and collection approaches, including innovative strategies for digital cultural heritage preservation. They should be comfortable negotiating creative partnerships and funding opportunities, while also contributing to the museum's public research profile.
Reporting to the Co-CEO and Artistic Director, this role is responsible for managing a highly motivated Collections team, based primarily at the National Storage Facility in Dandenong while also working across the museum's primary site in Hawthorn. As the leader of the Collections portfolio, the successful candidate will be someone who can motivate and lead a team effectively and maintain calm and positive leadership even in pressured conditions.
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