Senior Digital Preservation Specialist

Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: VG/SLV/DIG/1944822

At State Library Victoria, we believe that access to information and stories builds knowledge, strengthens community and inspires our future. Our recent redevelopment transformed our services and spaces, enhancing our role as a driver of Victoria’s education, innovation, tourism and creative industries.

• Bring your digital data preservation skills to a Melbourne icon!
• Fixed term (12 months), full-time
• VPS 5.2 role $128,635 - $140,849 p.a. + 12% superannuation

About the Opportunity

The Senior Digital Preservation Specialist supports the creation of policies, and an overarching framework, for digital preservation at State Library Victoria. The role will support the creation, operationalising, and monitoring of digital preservation standard operating procedures.

The Specialist will have sound knowledge of contemporary digital preservation practices and applies that knowledge to the creation of a digital preservation framework, ensuring robust, scalable, and stable mechanisms are developed to enable the long-term safekeeping of digital collections.

About You

We value your familiarity with preservation metadata implementation strategies (PREMIS), open archival information systems (OAIS) and open-source software tools such as DROID. You also have the capacity to balance structure and attention to detail with the ability and willingness to adapt methods of delivery. Importantly, you are able to navigate complex issues that require a nuanced approach, and can bring stakeholders along through engagement and influence.

In addition, you will come to us with:

• Experience in digital preservation and library practices and systems and their integration with business and technical requirements in a large and complex service delivery environment.
• Understanding of principles of system integration and knowledge of scripting languages.
• Familiarity with standard file formats used for digital data (e.g. JPG, TIFF, WAV, PDF), the PREMIS framework, the OAIS model, preservation utilities such as JHOVE and DROID, and metadata standards such as XML, MARC, Dublin Core, METS, and EAD.
• Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline (e.g. Information Systems, database management) or equivalent relevant experience.

About the Library

State Library Victoria is Australia's oldest public library, and one of the first free public libraries in the world.

We believe in the power of knowledge to change lives. Free to access and open to all, the Library enriches the cultural, educational, social and economic lives of all Victorians.

State Library Victoria preserves and shares the stories of Victoria and the world, and is a major destination for stimulating cultural experiences, contemporary debates, and community-driven collecting. We encourage learning, exploration, imagination, and creativity, opening up possibilities for all Victorians.

State Library Victoria is a child-safe organisation. A valid Working with Children Check will be required before commencing.

State Library Victoria promotes a workplace that actively seeks to welcome and value the unique contributions of all people. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from cultural and linguistic diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+, D/deaf, disabled, neurodiverse people and people of all ages and abilities to apply.

Enquiries

To arrange a confidential discussion about the opportunity, please contact Wes Tanny, Head of Technology via wtanny@slv.vic.gov.au .

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Reasonable Adjustments

We want all applicants to have an equal opportunity to demonstrate that they are the best person for the job. If you require an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, or the provision of a particular access service, please contact our People team on employment@slv.vic.gov.au .

Advertising closes on Tuesday 29 September, 2026 at 11.59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.

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