Senior Archivist: Heritage & Archive Lead (Hybrid)

Sydney Water; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 134,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Hybrid work environment

Continuous professional growth

24/7 wellbeing support

Discounted private health insurance

Family first

Fitness Passport

Novated leasing

Job summary

Sydney Water is seeking a Senior Archivist to lead the administration, conservation and sentencing of the Joint Sydney Water and WaterNSW Historical Archive collection dating back to 1888. The role focuses on statutory compliance, collection management procedures, and delivering interpretation of our history for internal and public audiences.

You will collaborate with the Natural Assets & Heritage Team and Records Management Teams, champion metadata, and oversee moves to state repositories while

Qualifications

• Experience describing, categorising, digitising, storing, preserving and retrieving archive materials.
• Strong communication skills with minimal supervision.
• Membership of appropriate bodies such as the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain collection management procedures for archives and moveable heritage.
• Apply retention/disposal authorities and collection development policy.
• Apply metadata to materials in the collection.
• Facilitate transfer of holdings to the State Archives Collection/NSW Govt Records Repository and manage digitisation efforts.
• Oversee external contractors for sentencing, conservation, digitisation, packaging and transfer; support inquiries.
• Maintain effective relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders.

Skills

Archive management

Communication

Self-motivation

Education

Tertiary qualifications in archives/records management/information studies

Tools

GIPA archives enquiries

Job description

Sydney Water is seeking a Senior Archivist to lead the administration, conservation and sentencing of the Joint Sydney Water and WaterNSW Historical Archive collection dating back to 1888. The role focuses on statutory compliance, collection management procedures, and delivering interpretation of our history for internal and public audiences.

You will collaborate with the Natural Assets & Heritage Team and Records Management Teams, champion metadata, and oversee moves to state repositories while