At a Glance
- Tasks: Prepare and curate wildlife specimens while supporting biodiversity research in remote areas.
- Company: Join CSIRO, Australia's leading science agency dedicated to solving big challenges.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, superannuation, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Flexible work arrangements and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on Australia's biodiversity while working with passionate teams.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in science or related field; experience in natural history collections preferred.
The predicted salary is between 113000 - 113000 $ per year.
CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
Role highlights:
- Help safeguard and enhance the research value of Australia’s nationally significant wildlife collections.
- Undertake hands-on specimen preparation, curation, databasing and collection management activities.
- Participate in remote-area fieldwork supporting biodiversity research, monitoring and genomics initiatives.
About CSIRO:
As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Join the Australian National Wildlife Collection and contribute to the care, growth and accessibility of an important national research collection. As a Collection Technician, you will help maintain the research-readiness and integrity of terrestrial vertebrate specimens associated tissues and collection data.
Your high-level duties will include:
- Assist in the preparation, registration, databasing housing and curation of terrestrial vertebrate specimens, associated tissues and metadata.
- Support the secure storage, integrity, accessibility and ongoing research-readiness of collection specimens and data.
- Help coordinate incoming and outgoing loans of specimens, tissues and DNA, including documentation, freighting, permitting and compliance requirements.
- Conduct integrated pest management checks and help maintain pest-free collection standards.
- Participate in remote-area field trips to collect vouchered reference specimens and high-quality tissue samples.
- Assist with field trip planning, organisation and logistics.
- Help build and maintain respectful working relationships with Traditional Owners, Indigenous ranger groups, research collaborators and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to improved collection management practices, digital specimen accessibility and curatorial workflows.
- Follow relevant health, safety, environmental and specimen-handling requirements.
Salary: AU$100k – AU$113k per annum (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation.
As the successful candidate, you will bring:
- A relevant bachelor’s degree in science, museum studies or a related discipline, and/or equivalent relevant experience in natural history collection curation and registration.
- Sound knowledge of Australia’s terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity, including taxonomic expertise in one or more Australian terrestrial vertebrate groups.
- Experience working in natural history collections, and an appreciation of their role in biodiversity research.
- Fieldwork experience, ideally involving the collection of vouchered specimens.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality assurance, including the ability to perform repetitive tasks accurately.
- The ability to maintain the accuracy of specimens, samples and associated data.
- Experience adhering to compliance and health, safety and environmental requirements relating to chemicals, specimen handling and fieldwork.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation.
Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements:
Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong.
Applications for this position are open to Australian and New Zealand citizens and Australian permanent residents. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character clearance requirements.
CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs.
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Contact Details:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Recruitment Team
