Aps 6 Program Managers, Trove Data Support (Multiple Non-Ongoing)

As a world leading library, the National Library of Australia offers an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library’s team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library’s future. 

The Library is seeking to fill multiple Program Manager Trove Data Support (APS 6) roles in the Trove Data and Platforms Section of the Collaboration Branch. These roles are available for filling on a non-ongoing basis until 30 June 2024 with a potential to become ongoing. 

The key duties of the position include:

The Program Manager, Trove Data Support role is required to undertake work that manages partner data contributions and components of national digital collaborative services. This work is complex in nature and the role works under limited direction. This will include: 

• Aggregating data from Trove Collaborative Services members, including liaising with partners, analysing and transforming data to suit Trove, planning and undertaking data maintenance activities, and exporting data or providing support for data export services. 
• Facilitating the movement and transformation of data between Trove modules.
• Contributing to the continual improvement of all Trove service users by identifying bugs and enhancements, contributing to business analysis, coordinating user acceptance testing and contributing to change management activities.

The role will be required to implement work plans for the area which may include setting tasks and priorities for others, managing workflow and allocating resources for the delivery of the functions of the team and Branch.

As a Program Manager, Trove Data Support you will contribute to Trove Collaborative Services policy development. 

Our ideal applicants will be team players who enjoy working collaboratively with stakeholders and manages their time and competing priorities well. We are seeking people with strong interpersonal skills who can contribute to building positive relationships within the team and across the Library. 

Skills and experience
To see you succeed in this role it is desirable that you have: 

• Qualifications or experience in Information Technology or Information Management.
• Experience in data transformation using XML, XPath, XSLT or any other scripting languages.
• Experience with systems managing descriptive metadata in libraries, galleries, archives, museums, research institutions or similar.

Eligibility

Applicants should be Australian citizens to be eligible for APS employment.

The preferred applicants will be required to successfully undergo a police record check and must be willing to disclose all relevant and required information.

Notes

There is a possibility that the roles may become ongoing within the next 12 months. A merit pool may be established and used to fill similar non-ongoing and ongoing vacancies available at this level. 

We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and mature age people.