About the National Film and Sound Archive  

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, 
telling the national story by collecting, preserving and sharing audiovisual media, the cultural 
experience platforms of our time. The collection itself dates back to 1935, making it one of the 
world’s oldest audiovisual collections. It is also one of the country’s most used cultural 
collections, with around 125 million views of collection content each year. The NFSA is in a 
period of significant change. Following increased Government investment, the institution is in a 
process of digital transformation, establishing the NFSA as Australia’s most dynamic and valued 
cultural organisation. We are rebuilding our curatorial workforce and developing the NFSA’s 
capacity to digitise our collection at scale – to preserve it for the future, to make sure it can be 
discovered, and to share it with all Australians. 

We continue to work on developing a stable, secure and future-proof workforce across our four 
physical sites based in Canberra and Mitchell in the ACT as well as in Sydney and Melbourne. 
We are also undergoing a program of business improvement for many of our corporate systems 
to improve efficiency and reduce manual handling.   

We are an ambitious organisation, and we aim to be an employer of choice within the Galleries, 
Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector, providing exciting and challenging work, as 
well as favourable employment conditions and unique development opportunities for our staff.
About the Team 

The Conservation team is part of Conservation and Collection Management section, Collection 
Preservation Branch. The team conducts an extensive work program providing a range of 
activities for the preservation and ongoing care of the audiovisual, documents and artefacts collection. The team has two streams: AV Conservation who prepare and preserve audiovisual 
material for digitisation, curatorial and access programs; and the Collection Conservation team 
who look after the documents and artefacts collection, as well as undertaking a range of 
collection care programs such as collection assessments, exhibition preparation and condition 
reporting.  

The team provides technical advice regarding access and digitisation requests, undertakes 
straightforward and complex conservation works and ensures the national audiovisual 
collection is preserved by maintaining current policies and procedures. 

The Opportunity 

The Audiovisual Conservation Technician plays a key role in providing safe and appropriate 
access to the AV collection. The AV Conservation Technician will undertake various 
conservation treatments such as preparing film for screening and digitisation, condition 
reporting and contributing to procedure and workflow development and knowledge sharing.  
This position is located at NFSA Headquarters in Acton, ACT with the opportunity of 
participating in projects located in the NFSA collection vaults in ACT.

For the full job description and how to apply, follow this LINK!
https://candidate.aurion.cloud/nfsa/production/vacancies/2912289596267199~1/edit
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11/06/2026

James Campbell

[email protected]

Full Time
Acton, ACT
ACT
$70,545 - $76,833

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