The Digital team works collaboratively across the Museum to create engaging digital content for exhibitions, web, social media channels and events. The Digital Engagement Manager will lead the strategic development, project management and delivery of digital experiences to engage our online and onsite audiences.
You will provide strategic input to creative content development, business planning processes and reporting for the Digital Engagement section. You will manage two Senior Digital producers, vendors and project budgets.
This role is 50/50 strategic development and hands-on production, supporting the Senior Digital producers to deliver digital projects across the Museum and guiding their professional development. This is a highly strategic, creative, collaborative and varied role. Creative concepting, problem solving and relationship-building will be essential for the successful candidate.
A day in this role may include:
- Producing an interview with a former prime minister
- Overseeing a photo shoot of our collection objects, like the boomerang that was sent on the Space Shuttler Challenger
- Working with our curators to tell fascinating stories about Old Parliament House, like ‘what are in the bins?’
- Starring in a social media video
- Building Ikea furniture to create the ‘Department of Memories’ set for this year’s Enlighten festival
- Writing a rom-com spoof about the love we have for democracy
- Debating whether it’s Senate Chamber or Senate chamber
- Producing a soundscape for one of our interpreted rooms
- Creating audio descriptions for our political cartooning exhibition
- Monitoring trends and identifying opportunities for content creation
- Pitching a proposal to our Executive team
- Producing a video installation about all the ways you can participate in democracy for one of our exhibitions
- Donning a hard hat and hi-vis vest and walking on the roof to see where the old press gallery offices were located
- Live-streaming a panel event
- Supporting staff across the Museum to share their expertise on camera for our social channels
- Developing an editorial strategy to explore Australian democracy
- Sourcing innovative, creative and inspiring artists and suppliers to commission
- Using data to evaluate and assess the success of projects and inform new projects
- Managing procurement and budgets
The key duties of the position include:
Under the direction of the Head of Digital, the Manager, Digital Engagement will:
- Oversee the strategic development and production of digital experiences and content across the Museum’s exhibitions, website, social channels and events.
- Manage two direct reports, contractors and vendors to deliver digital projects to drive digital presence and engagement
- Provide strategic and practical project advice, delivering creative, audience-focused digital content and experiences on time and within budget
- Use data to undertake critical evaluation of digital content (onsite and online), and to create a digital content offering which optimises audience growth and engagement.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to conceptualise, deliver and evaluate engaging content for digital products and channels, and build digital capacity across projects.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this position at MoAD, applicants must:
- be an Australian Citizen; and
- have a security clearance or be willing to undertake the process to obtain a baseline clearance (after commencement).
- be willing to provide identity documents and undergo an identity pre-employment check through a Document Verification Service, if you are deemed to be the successful candidate.
Notes
Suitable candidates may be placed in a merit pool from this selection process and the pool may be used to fill similar ongoing or non-ongoing roles. Non-ongoing vacancies filled from a merit pool may be offered as a specified term.