Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Tui tui hono tangata, whenua me te moana.
Auckland War Memorial Museum: Connecting through sharing stories of people, lands and seas
Auckland Museum is a much-loved culture and heritage organisation at the heart of Auckland's identity, committed to outstanding management of its world-class collections, developing and sharing engaging content through its galleries, exhibition, events, educational programmes and the permanent and volunteer staff who tell the Museum's stories. We are Auckland's home of commemoration as well as the country’s oldest research institution and a major tourist destination.
Job Description
Mō te tūranga | About the role
Auckland Museum is offering a rare opportunity for a Collection Manager, Taonga Māori, in a fixed-term role until late November 2025. This position involves the expert management, cataloguing, and care of the Museum’s taonga Māori collections. This busy role requires a highly organised individual to support the key objectives of the taonga Māori team. The role supports loans, exhibitions, and public programmes, and involves community access and engagement. Auckland Museum is committed to outstanding management of its extensive collections and the staff who tell the Museum’s stories. This position’s contribution is vital to enabling the wider Human History team to achieve its objectives that sit at the heart of the Museum’s aspirations. This position requires full-time hours.
This role is responsible for:
Triaging, planning and managing enquiries and tasks for the taonga Māori team, keeping them informed and ensuring all tasks are on track.
Facilitating access/retrieval of collection items for internal and external stakeholders, including assisted viewings when required.
Supporting the taonga Māori curators to research and provide prompt and accurate information to public and professional enquiries.
Managing all new acquisitions from point of approval to cataloguing and storage.
Ensuring the museum’s collection database information is consistent, accurate and retrievable, and enhancing records when appropriate.
Registration of taonga and archaeological artefacts to meet the requirements of the Protected Objects Act.
Desired Skills and Experience
Ō pūmanawa | What you will bring
Outstanding administration, organisational, verbal, written and listening skills.
Awareness, sound judgement, sensitivity, cultural competency and sound understanding of tikanga and mātauranga Māori.
A tertiary qualification in a field relevant to this position’s activities or a tertiary Museum Studies qualification or at least 2 years’ equivalent working experience in a similar role.
Knowledge and experience working with Māori collections and/or Māori communities.
Fluency in Te Reo Māori is desirable.
A familiarity with collection management systems (Vernon preferred) and experience in data management and maintenance.
Helpful, flexible, respectful and generous approach with colleagues and external stakeholders.
Attention to detail and demonstrated accountability.
Full clean driver’s licence.
Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou | What we offer
Flexible work arrangements to enhance your work and home life
An award-winning wellbeing programme including free membership with Boost app and Myeveryday wellbeing
Staff discounts
An active social club which is part of the fabric of Museum life
Discounted onsite parking
Accredited by Rainbow tick
Check out our benefits page to find out more about why we love working here.
Tono mai i tēnei rā! | Apply today!
Closing Date: Monday 24 March, 2025. We may arrange interviews for strong candidates prior to the closing date for applications. You must be eligible to currently work in New Zealand to be considered for this position. Please view the position description here or select the apply button to view if on the seek platform.
Auckland Museum offers a rich and fulfilling work life where we embrace diversity and nurture our bicultural capability as demonstrated in our Teu le Va and He Korahi Maori strategies. We also offer a range of great benefits such as flexible work and leave and an award-winning wellbeing programme.
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to be part of a fabulous New Zealand organisation committed to telling our national and Auckland stories, reflecting our unique place in the South Pacific.
He Oranga Tangata ka ao
Enriching lives. Inspiring discoveries
