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Form of workWant to join our Gallery Visitor Services Team?
Guided by our Reconciliation Action Plan, QAGOMA is committed to elevating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, creativity, knowledge, customs and cultures. We are looking for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people to work for us! If you enjoy assisting people of all ages from diverse cultural backgrounds we'd like to hear from you!
The Gallery and Visitor Services Officer role enhances QAGOMA's public profile through positive interaction and information delivery with the public while also assisting the Protection and Visitor Services Team with ensuring protection of Gallery property including art works. QAGOMA is Queensland's premier visual arts institution and a major cultural tourism attraction for Queensland and aims to connect art and people and is part of the Queensland Cultural Precinct.
The purpose of the role of a Gallery and Visitor Services Officer is to enhance the Gallery's public profile through positive interaction and information delivery with the public while also assisting the Gallery Services Team with ensuring the protection of Gallery property including art works.
The position has a key customer service role and interacts with the public to provide informative and educational information and assistance about the Gallery, the art and its activities. Gallery & Visitor Services Officers also ensure the conditions of entry are followed and maintain the Gallery's security and emergency management procedures.
This position is designated as Indigenous Identified. Under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (QLD), it is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person.
As part of the application process, applicants may be required to provide evidence of their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, which could include a written assertion that you are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent.
Through Gallery and Visitor Services Officer Indigenous Identified roles, the Gallery seeks to increase representation of First Nations people and voices in the Gallery Services Team and assist, where appropriate, in contributing to culturally responsive Visitor Services and staff culture. Work of this nature is recognised as an integral part of this Identified role. The position will have access to support networks such as the Gallery's Reconciliation Action Plan (PDF) ( https://cdn.sanity.io/files/m2obzhc2/production/4ba4935c1635a4c05266989aedc40441dd953984.pdf ) Working Group, and will be invited to participate in a network of First Nations staff working across different sections of the Gallery.
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