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The Australian National Maritime Museum of Australia has a skilled and diverse workforce. We value our people, performance, integrity and service. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability and people from every cultural and linguistic background. The Australian National Maritime Museum which is located at Pyrmont, Sydney is currently advertising the vacancy of: Digital Producer, Digital Outreach Section, Public Engagements & Research Division

Purpose of the position:

A) Unlocking of the collection (UTC). The museum wishes to create a ‘Google searchable’, user friendly, online database of its collection. A record about each object in the museum’s collection is already stored in a custom built SQL-based collection management system (The Museum System or TMS). A responsive, mobile first, device neutral user interface has been designed and the fields in the user interface mapped to TMS. The Producer’s role will be to:

  1. Establish clear plans and timeframe for project implementation and outline specific activities. Monitor project progress and adjusts plans as required, seeing the project through to completion.
  2. Approach negotiations with stakeholders with a strong grasp of the key issues, having prepared in advance. Understand the desired objectives and associated strengths and weaknesses.
  3. Work with the head of digital outreach to ensure the functional brief captures and prioritises all the user and museum requirements for the UTC project.
  4. Take the functional brief to tender and manage the vendor selection process
  5. Provide the technical, design and user experience (UX) interface between the museum and the vendor to ensure a high quality, user friendly product that creates value for the user and the museum is developed.

B) Australian Register of Historic Vessels (ARHV) The ARHV is an online database of significant historic vessels in Australia. Data on each of the vessels is stored in the TMS system used above. The ARVH project is similar to the UTC project in that responsive, device neutral templates have already been designed and data mapped from the user interface back to the TMS database. It is envisaged that the ARHV project will utilise the same architecture as the UTC product and will be released 4-6 weeks later. The Producer’s role will be to:

  1. Ensure the ARHV requirements are included in the UTC brief
  2. Oversee the production of the ARHV online
  3. Provide the technical, design and UX interface between the museum and the vendor to ensure a high quality, user friendly product that creates value for the user and the museum is developed and that stakeholders are satisfied.

C) Development of new templates for the museum’s website The museum’s website has mobile, tablet and desktop templates that need to be updated to improve UX. The museum’s digital team have created wireframes and a new IA that needs to be tested, probably modified and then designed, coded and stitched into the website CMS (sitecore). The producer’s role will be to:

  1. Establish clear plans and timeframes for project implementation and outline specific activities. Monitor project progress and adjusts plans as required.
  2. Work with the digital outreach team to manage testing and evaluate results
  3. Ensure UX test results have been incorporated into the wireframes and IA
  4. Write the brief for the digital agency to apply the look-and-feel, code and stitch the new templates into the CMS
  5. Manage the tender process, including selection and appointment of the digital agency
  6. Provide the interface between the museum and the digital agency to ensure the templates are built to a high standard and operate as expected

D) Refresh eNewsletter templates

  1. Work with the digital team to develop specifications for new eNewsletter and eBlast templates.
  2. Develop a design and technical brief
  3. Seek feedback from internal stakeholders to gauge satisfaction with the brief
  4. Put the design and coding of the eNewsletter templates out to tender
  5. Work with the selected digital agency to develop new coded eNewsletter and eBlast templates.

Notes and Eligibility:

For full position details, application requirements and for more information on the ANMM please visit: https://anmm.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.listJobs

The Selection Criteria, Position Description and a Pre-Application Form are located on this website: https://anmm.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.listJobs  

Please note that applications, CV’s and claims to the selection criteria must be lodged on line on this link: https://anmm.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.listJobs  No Applications will be accepted by mail or email.