The NGA is seeking a Digital Asset Officer to join the Content & Digital team during a critical phase of implementing its new DAMS, Fotoware.

This role will support the day-to-day activities involved in preparing assets for ingestion, including consolidation, quality assurance and metadata enrichment. Reporting to the Senior Officer, Digital Asset Management the successful candidate will play a key role in the discoverability, integrity, and long-term accessibility of the National Gallery's digital assets contributing to the delivery of major digitisation initiatives and supporting the National Gallery's strategic priorities.

An order of merit may be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only. If you do not wish to be added to an order of merit, please notify us in your application.

This is a full-time, 12 month non-ongoing employment opportunity with a possibility of becoming ongoing. Applications close 11:50pm Wednesday, 19 August 2026.

SKILLS AND CAPABILITY - OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE

Our ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience working with managing digital assets, including metadata creation and quality assurance processes. Having worked with a digital asset management system is highly desirable but not required. They will possess a solid understanding of metadata standards and digital workflows, with the ability to apply metadata consistently across diverse content types demonstrating understanding of how this impacts discoverability and long-term accessibility.

Knowledge of digital preservation principles, colour management, collection management systems,



and/or other database software is highly desirable along with proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite including Bridge, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

The successful candidate will have excellent attention to detail and analytical skills, ensuring accuracy and consistency in handling digital assets. They will also demonstrate sound oral and written communication skills, the ability to prioritise tasks effectively, and strong interpersonal skills to support collaboration and engagement across the Gallery.

Experience in the GLAM sector is also highly desirable.

THE KEY DUTIES OF THE POSITION - WHAT WILL YOU DO?

In accordance with the APS 4 work level standards, you will:

- Follow established DAMS processes and workflows to ensure consistency, compliance and the integrity of digital assets.
- Support the Content & Digital team in the secure transfer, management and storage of digital assets.
- Liaise with interdepartmental teams to facilitate the ingestion of digital assets not currently housed within the existing repository.
- Assist with the publishing of assets from the DAMS to the Search the Collection platform, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Accurately and consistently create, apply and review metadata for digital assets in accordance with established standards and specifications maintaining discoverability.
- Support project management activities by maintaining accurate up to date records and providing clear and timely reporting as required.




- Provide training and day-to-day support for National Gallery DAMS users including maintaining user training manuals.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate, or have the ability to develop the following, you will:

- Support the shared purpose and direction of the Gallery by understanding and supporting the Gallery’s vision, mission and corporate objectives. You will communicate and follow direction provided by direct manager to ensure you can recognise how own work contributes to the achievement of the Gallery.
- Harnesses information and opportunities by drawing on information from multiple sources and uses agreed guidelines to analyse what information is important and how it should be used. Keeps self and
- others well informed on work progress.
- Takes responsibility for managing work projects to achieve results by seeing tasks through to completion. Works within agreed priorities. Commits to achieving quality outcomes and adheres to documentation procedures. Seeks feedback from supervisor to gauge satisfaction and seeks guidance when required.
- Listens, understands and adapts to audience by seeking to understand the audience and tailors communication style and message accordingly. Listens carefully to others and checks to ensure their views have been understood. Checks own understanding of others’ comments

Employer: National Gallery of Australia

Location: Canberra, Australia

Posted Date: 30/07/2026

Expiry Date: 19/08/2026

Type: Full-Time

Categories: DAM Manager / User, Librarian / Collections / Digitisation / Archivist, Metadata Management / Taxonomy / Ontology

Ref: DN-JB-2977

Added by: Laura Masters

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📌 Digital Asset Officer (Canberra)
🏢 The Digital Asset Management Consortium
📍 Canberra