Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 640

  1. Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications
  2. Call for Australia ICOMOS members to contribute to International Scientific Committees
  3. Vietnam Maritime Archaeology Project
  4. NSW Government’s annual Green Globe Awards – call for nominations
  5. Future Anterior journal – call for submissions
  6. Heritage Council of WA’s eNewsletter out now
  7. Australia ICOMOS – Canberra Talk Series
  8. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne
  9. Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, May 2015, Washington DC – call for papers
  10. Port Arthur Talks, Tuesday 22 July 2014
  11. Centre for Conservation of Islamic Architectural Heritage newsletter
  12. An Introduction to Oral History Interviewing workshop, Melbourne, 18 July
  13. “Authenticity in the conservation of historic houses and palace-museums” conference, October 2014, France
  14. Historical Lab 5: “Consistency of inner and outer spaces in European Art” – programme available
  15. Course Announcement: SOIMA-LATAM 2014: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, November 2014, Mexico
  16. 19th International Conference on CHNT – programme online
  17. SITUATION VACANT Senior Team Leader – State Heritage Register, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
  18. SITUATION VACANT Senior Heritage Consultant, AHMS, Sydney
  19. SITUATION VACANT Consultant to develop a Community Collections Strategy and Action Plan, Bendigo Regional Archives Centre

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1. Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications

There are many benefits in joining ICOMOS – not only the fantastic people you will meet but Membership of Australia ICOMOS brings discounts at ICOMOS functions, at many conferences in Australia and internationally and on ICOMOS publications. The E-mail News provides a weekly bulletin board of information and events in Australia and overseas, including state based events, conferences and site visits, as well as information on heritage publications, funding and grant opportunities, course details and job offers. Members also receive a number of issues annually of the Australia ICOMOS refereed journal Historic Environment. Applications for members to join the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) are encouraged from all states and territories. For Young Professional and full Members, the International ICOMOS card gives free or reduced rate entry to many historic and cultural sites.

Australia ICOMOS welcomes new members and would like to encourage students and young cultural heritage graduates to apply for membership. There are various membership categories and applications can be made to the Secretariat:

  • Those who are interested in ICOMOS but who do not meet the requirements for full membership, or else do not have heritage conservation as their core focus, could apply to become Associates of ICOMOS
  • Those at the beginning of a career in architecture, archaeology, planning or history with 3 years experience and who are under 30 years of age may be eligible for Young Professional membership at reduced rates

For further information go to the Membership page of the Australia ICOMOS website, or download the Australia ICOMOS 2014_MEMBERSHIP Application Form.

Membership applications are only considered at meetings of the Executive Committee – in order for your application to be considered at the February 2014 Executive Committee meeting, please submit it to the Secretariat by COB Thursday 31 July 2014.

If further information is required, email the Membership Secretary, John Wadsley.

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2. Call for Australia ICOMOS members to contribute to International Scientific Committees

Australia ICOMOS is encouraging Full International ICOMOS Members to consider being involved on an International Scientific Committee (ISC). ISCs are vehicles through which ICOMOS brings together, develops and serves its worldwide membership according to fields of specialized interest. ISCs are expected to be at the heart of scientific inquiry and exchange in their domains and to share knowledge among them, in order to foster a multi-disciplinary approach to heritage protection and management. The ISCs are governed by the Eger-Xi’an Principles for The International [Scientific] Committees of ICOMOS. The Australia ICOMOS website has links to the various ISCs and also lists current Australian membership on the ISCs. See below. Australia ICOMOS is already well represented on several ISCs, however there are currently a number of ISCs with no or only a few Australian members. Some ISCs actively seek new members.

Although the Eger-Xi’an Principles allow prospective ISC members to nominate themselves or to be invited to join directly by an ISC, nomination by the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee as either expert or associate membership assists both the ISC and the candidate by providing an independent opinion on the standing and credit of nominees in the field of the ISC within their own country. In addition, within an ISC, each country is allocated one voting member and to be given this opportunity your membership on the ISC must be endorsed by the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee.

Australia ICOMOS expects those applying for nomination as expert members on an ISC to have: made a significant contribution to Australia ICOMOS in the area covered by the ISC (e.g. through the organisation of conferences, convening of specialist groups, etc); written and been published extensively on the area covered by the ISC; be recognised nationally or internationally as an expert in the area covered by the ISC; to have acted as a formal advisor to Australian Governments on the the area covered by the ISC; and/or to have completed significant and formally recognised consultancies on the subject/s covered by the ISC.

Nominees for Expert membership must be able to fund their own overseas travel to attend formal ISC meetings (usually held annually).

The criteria for Associate members of ISCs are less demanding (see the Eger-Xi’an Principles) and there is no expectation of personal attendance at meetings.

Australian members of ISCs are expected to report regularly to the general Australia ICOMOS membership on their ISC activities. Such reporting is particularly important for the Annual Report presented to the Australia ICOMOS Annual General Meeting each November. Other reports will be distributed through AICOMOS E-News.

If you have any queries please email the current AICOMOS coordinator Mary Knaggs.

Expressions of interest should be emailed to the Secretariat and the current AICOMOS ISC Coordinator (Mary Knaggs) by 5pm, Monday 28 July 2014.

Include a resume with particular reference to your credentials in the specific field of the ISC for which you seek nomination, and a statement on why you wish to be involved, and whether you seek to be nominated as an Expert or Associate member. The Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee will consider the EOIs at (and leading up to) its next quarterly meeting on the 16 and 17 August 2014, and responses will be sent the following week. The Executive Committee may seek advice from other experts in the relevant fields when considering the EOIs.

Please note that the endorsement of your nomination by Australia ICOMOS is no guarantee of your acceptance by the relevant ISC, and that the timing of the consideration of your membership will vary from committee to committee, according to their own rules and schedules. However some ISCs may hold meetings before or after the ICOMOS General Assembly in Florence (9-14 November 2014).

The ISCs are:

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3. Vietnam Maritime Archaeology Project

An international, interdisciplinary research team comprising of researchers from, or associated with, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the Field Museum in Chicago, the University of Colorado, Monash University and Flinders University in Australia as well as Vietnamese researchers from the Institute of Archaeology (Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences) have been working in Vietnam during June and July 2014. This international collaborative project has been undertaken annually since 2008.

The team spent a week at Hoi An in Quang Nam province conducting preliminary SCUBA diving survey work at Cu Lao Cham as well as SCUBA diving training for two staff members of the Underwater Archaeology Department (UAD) of the Institute of Archaeology (IA). They have also conducted maritime archaeological and related projects at the sites of two important naval battles in 1288 A.D. at Bach Dang and Van Don. Research also included visiting shrines, temples and important sites related to the Battle of Van Don and the Battle of Bach Dang as well as SCUBA diving survey work near the ancient port of Van Don. This work aims to build up a more detailed picture of the historical naval battles by linking the two sites, assessing targeted areas and investigating the palaeo-enviromental conditions existing at the time. Investigation of the intangible cultural heritage associated with the Battle of Van Don will be conducted during the annual festival at Quan Lan held around the anniversary of that battle (12 to 14 July 2014).

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For updates on Underwater Cultural Heritage in Vietnam on the Commonsites click here.

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4. NSW Government’s annual Green Globe Awards – call for nominations

The NSW Government’s 15th annual Green Globe Awards are the leading environment awards in NSW, showcasing environmental innovation, leadership and performance. The awards will be hosted by the Hon Rob Stokes, Minister for the Environment on Thursday 30 October at NSW Parliament House.

They provide a great opportunity to showcase and highlight the fantastic work and environmental projects that is being done throughout NSW.

There are 16 award categories and one category specifically for – Heritage Buildings (see details below).

HERITAGE BUILDINGS AWARD – CATEGORY

This award honours heritage-listed buildings in NSW that have successfully developed and integrated environmental management and sustainable practices into the buildings fabrics and management. This category rewards innovative actions taken to improve the efficiency and general environmental performance of the building, whilst retaining the asset’s heritage values.

Eligibility: project must relate to a Heritage Buildings listed on the World Heritage List, National Heritage List, NSW State Heritage Register, State Agency Heritage Register and/or Local Environmental Plan. Entrants must provide details of the statutory Heritage listing, supply a Heritage Impact Statement for any building modification work, along with relevant plans and photos.

To get started:

Entries close 5.00pm Monday 21 July 2014 and for all details on nominations and the Green Globe Awards visit the Green Glode Awards website.

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5. Future Anterior journal – call for submissions

COPIES, COPYRIGHT and PRESERVATION
Special Issue co-edited by Ines Weizman and Jorge Otero-Pailos

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 15 September 2014

Future Anterior invites essays that explore the relationship between copyright and preservation from a historical, theoretical and critical perspective. Both copyright and preservation laws are aimed at protecting unique human achievements, but they point to different, even opposing threats. Whereas copyright is meant to protect private interests from public encroachments, preservation mostly aims to safeguard the public interest against private forces. But as the categories of private and public are redrawn under the pressures of globalization, what challenges and opportunities lay ahead for preservation?

Both preservation and copyright law attempt to answer a basic question: Who has the right to make a copy? This question has a long but unexplored history within preservation. Carlo Fea, the Italian neo-classical jurist and preservationist, passed laws to forbid overzealous collectors form taking original sculptures from churches and using poor replacement copies as payments for cash-strapped priests. But as copying techniques improved, it became common to place copies outdoors and to move original works of architecture and sculpture inside museums (think of the copies that replaced the original capitals of the Doge’s Palace, or the replica of Michelangelo’s David in Piazza della Signoria). These days, preservation and copyright are both challenged by new modes of digital production, which put new pressure on the notion of absolute authorship and ownership.

What makes mechanical architectural copies so interesting is that, even though they emerge at the same time as reproductions in other fields, they escaped the same association as representative phenomena of modernity. Yet, just like the print, the photograph, the film or the digital file, architectural copies are a product of architecture and a media form in themselves, part of an endless series of ‘aura-less’ multiplications. Legal scholar Bernard Edelman has shown how in nineteenth-century France photographs were at first considered to be mere mechanical reproductions of reality, and hence in the public domain. It was only when photography became accepted as an artistic practice that it received legal protection and ‘the real as object in law [became] susceptible to appropriation, sale and contracts’. To what degree does contemporary art still serve as the measure and instrument for the regulation of copies? Can copyright law help explain the opposition to consider preservationists as artists, or even authors? Essays may investigate these questions, as well as critically analyze modes and practices of appropriation in preservation as they compare to other fields.

As the production of architectural copies is becoming more digital, networked and diffused, we are witnessing more aggressive legal attempts to control the right to reproduce architecture. As Winnie Won Yin Wong wrote (Future Anterior 9.1) recent legal attempts to define “trade dress” signal an attempt to regulate, not just architectural form, but also ambiance and atmosphere as property. From the perspective of preservation, which relies heavily on design guidelines to implement legally binding decisions, what is the future of aesthetic regulation? We welcome essays that explore how objects (and specifically architectural interiors, buildings and cities) have been and are today presented, discussed and contested (in court, or other legal debates) as a dispute over authorial, private or public property.

In preservation, intellectual copyright is hard to define and regulate – harder than in most other arts. Its potential scope is also overwhelming, implying that almost every gesture in the construction of space would have to be protected. What sorts of architectural and urban copies are subject to copyright? If copyright is the right to copy, replicate, duplicate and receive the financial benefits of this act, could one argue copyright law in fact enabled architecture to be copied, replicated, mass produced and exported across the world? How did the circulation of copies help or undermine the idea of preservation in-situ? How could the history of national and international copyright laws inform that of modern preservation?

Future Anterior invites papers from scholars in preservation and its allied fields (juridical studies, architectural history, art history, anthropology, archeology, geography, political science, urban studies, and planning) that explore these and related questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Future Anterior is a peer-reviewed journal that approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. Future Anterior invites contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.

Articles submitted for peer review should be no more than 4000 words, with five to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8” by 9” print size. Figures should be numbered and called out clearly between paragraphs in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text.

Click for further manuscript guidelines.

Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors.

Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned.

Please email all submissions to Furure Anterior

Or by mail to:

  • Future Anterior
    400 Avery Hall
    Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
    Columbia University
    New York, NY 10027

Questions about submissions can be mailed to the above address or addressed to:

Jorge Otero-Pailos by email

Jorge Otero-Pailos, Founder and Editor, Future Anterior
Associate Professor of Historic Preservation
Columbia University

or

Ines Weizman by email

Ines Weizman, Professor of Architectural Theory
Bauhaus University Weimar

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6. Heritage Council of WA’s eNewsletter out now

Read the latest edition of the Heritage Council’s eNewsletter, Heritage Matters.

Applications for the 2014-15 Heritage Grants Program close on 18 July 2014.

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7. Australia ICOMOS – Canberra Talk Series

Mexican Time: Heritage and Community Continuity
presented by Marilyn Truscott

Mexican talk

This talk will present the speaker’s recent journeys through time and place in Mexico, seeing how heritage programs are sustaining or reconnecting communities with their heritage from pre-Hispanic cultures to the first colonial settlements in the Americas in 1519. Examples are Xochimilco, Mexico City: the Aztec canal system that continues today; and El Tajín: a major Totonac, Mesoamerican city – both world heritage sites, as well as Veracruz state examples of the federal government’s ‘Pueblos Mágicos’ program for early colonial heritage towns.

Marilyn Truscott is a heritage consultant, who has recently been in Mexico to talk to colleagues about their tangible and intangible heritage and how it can be kept together.

Members and the public are welcome. This is part of a series of talks organised by Australia ICOMOS.

Refreshments available appropriate to the talk’s topic! [without too many chillis or too much tequila!] (A $5.00 donation is appreciated)

Date & Time: 5.00-7.00pm, Thursday 24 July 2014 – 5.30pm start for talk
Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia, East Block, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes (enter from Kings Avenue side)
RSVP: To Marilyn Truscott via email

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8. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne

The next CHCAP seminar at Deakin University will be a presentation by Prof. Lynn Meskell, (Stanford University, USA & Thinker-in-Residence, Deakin University) on the topic “States of Conservation: Protection, Politics and Pacting within UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee”.

Abstract

The title, States of Conservation, deliberately references the two ‘states’ that today occupy critical yet oppositional nodes within UNESCO’s 1972 Convention and its conservation agenda. It recalls the State of Conservation reports commissioned by the World Heritage Center in conjunction with its Advisory Bodies that relay the condition of World Heritage properties to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. But more critically, ‘states’ here also refers to the most powerful, emergent players in World Heritage site inscription and protection processes — the States Parties or member states of the 1972 Convention. In this talk I contend that as the rush for World Heritage inscription increases and economic and geo-political pacting between nations intensifies, the resources, concerns and commitments for conservation of sites already inscribed dramatically declines. I trace the national economic interests, international political pacting, and voting blocs through which particular countries increasingly set the World Heritage agenda and recast UNESCO as an agency for global branding rather than global conservation.

Biography

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Center at Stanford University. She received her BA (Hons) First Class and the University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1994. For her Phd in Archaeology (1994-1997), she was awarded the Kings College scholarship from Cambridge University. She held the Salvesen Junior Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford University (1997-1999) before accepting a position at Columbia University in New York City where she became Professor in 2005. From that time onwards she has been Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 1999 she founded the Journal of Social Archaeology, for which she serves as Editor. She has been awarded grants and fellowships including those from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the American Academy in Rome, the School of American Research and Deakin University. Some of her recent books and edited collections include Embedding Ethics (2005, Berg) and Cosmopolitan Archaeologies (2009, Duke UP) and The Nature of Culture: The New South Africa (2012, Blackwells). Her new research focuses on the role of UNESCO in terms of heritage rights, sovereignty and international politics.

Date: Wednesday 30 July 2014

Time: 5.30pm

Venue: Meeting Room 3, Deakin Prime, City Campus, 3/550 Bourke Street, Melbourne

DINNER: The seminar will be followed by dinner around 7 pm at Bar Humbug. Please RSVP to Yamini Narayanan by email for dinner booking

Email list: To be included in the CHCAP email newsletter distribution list, email Yamini Narayanan

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9. Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, May 2015, Washington DC – call for papers

2015 Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
River Cities: Historical and Contemporary
Washington DC, May 2015

The dynamic relationships between cities and their rivers, a landscape of potentially critical adaptability and resilience, is the focus of the 2015 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Building on the emergence of urban humanities and urban landscape history, we propose to consider the urban river as a city-making landscape deserving of careful reading and analysis: past, present, and future.

The subject of this symposium builds on a new multi-year initiative in urban landscape studies, which Dumbarton Oaks is launching in 2015 with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its principal goal is to create a dialogue between designers and scholars to address the landscape consequences of advancing urbanization. With this task in mind, the 2015 symposium aims to bring together the work of contemporary designers with the historical perspectives of scholars, encouraging practitioners and historians to bridge the gaps between their modes of thinking. We would particularly welcome proposals for collaborative or paired presentations by designers and historians working on similar topics or the same city.

Further information, including the call for papers document, is available by clicking here.

Please submit a 300 word abstract to Thaisa Way by email by 14 September 2014 to be considered for the 2015 Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies symposium: River Cities: Historical and Contemporary. If accepted, full papers will be due on 1 March 2015 for presentation in May 2015. For more information, contact Thaisa Way by email.

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10. Port Arthur Talks, Tuesday 22 July 2014

Was convict transportation good for the health of convicts and their descendants?
presented by Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

This talk will use data for both transported convicts and Tasmanians born in the second half of the 19th century to explore the impact of transportation on convict health, family formation and colonial child development. In particular it will look at the extent to which the sins of their parents disadvantaged the children of convicts.

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart teaches history at the University of Tasmania where he is an Associate Professor. He has authored a number of books and articles including Closing Hell’s Gates (2008), and is currently collaborating with an international team of researchers to explore the long-term impacts of transportation on health and offending.

ALL WELCOME!

When: Tuesday 22 July 2014 at 5.30pm

Where: Junior Medical Officer’s Conference Room

Download the Convict Transportation talk flier.

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11. Centre for Conservation of Islamic Architectural Heritage newsletter

To read the latest newsletter from the Centre for conservation of Islamic Architectural Heritage, click on the link below.

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12. An Introduction to Oral History Interviewing workshop, Melbourne, 18 July

Presented by Sarah Rood, professional historian from consulting historians Way Back When, this workshop is suitable for both staff and volunteers and promotes best practice standards for interviewing. Learn how to prepare questions, about the forms, ethics and permissions involved, and the top tips to a good interview.

Date & Time: Friday 18 July, 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Venue: Chinese Museum, Melbourne

Cost: Members $55, Non Members $110

Book online now to secure your place

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13. “Authenticity in the conservation of historic houses and palace-museums” conference, October 2014, France – registration open

Conference ICOM – DemHist and ARRE
Authenticity in the conservation of historic houses and palace-museums
7-11 October 2014
Palace of Compiègne et chateau de Versailles

Organised jointly by the International committee for Historic House Museums (ICOM DEMHIST) and the Association of European Royal Residences (ARRE), in partnership with the Palace of Compiègne and the Palace of Versailles (France), the conference will take place from 7-11 October 2014.

This multidisciplinary, international conference aims to contribute to the debate on authenticity in the conservation of historic house museums and palaces, to discuss how the idea has changed over time and to participate in the dissemination of best practice.

In order to explore the subject properly, the programme will last five days:

  • two conference days at the Palace of Compiègne on 7 and 9 October
  • three days visiting some of the most emblematic residences of the Ile-de-France region on 8, 10 and 11 October

This meeting is for professionals employed in the field of historic house museum conservation and anyone who wishes to contribute to this fascinating subject at some of France’s most outstanding sites.

Presentations will be in French or in English and translated simultaneously into either of the two languages.

Registration is open and you can download the programme and practical information sheet from the conference website.

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14. Historical Lab 5: “Consistency of inner and outer spaces in European Art” – programme available

In the framework of the project Art Nouveau & Ecology supported by the programme Culture 2007-2013 of the European Commission, the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as a network of cities aiming to preserve, study and promote Art Nouveau at a European scale, is organising a one-day symposium on 5 September 2014 on “Consistency of inner and outer spaces in European Art Nouveau architecture” in Rīga (Latvia).

For further information, visit the symposium website. Registration is open until 20 August 2014.

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15. Course Announcement: SOIMA-LATAM 2014: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, November 2014, Mexico

SOIMA-LATAM 2014: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections

Dates: 3 – 14 November 2014
Place: Mexico City, Mexico

View the announcement online here

Application deadline extended to 18 July 2014.

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16. 19th International Conference on CHNT – programme online

The 19th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) will take place from 3-5 November, 2014 in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria.

Urban Archaeology and Processing….Analysing the data

The conference programme is now online.

Early bird registration is open until 3 October 2014. Registration for the Training Workshops and Social Events is also open.

For further information visit the conference website.

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17. SITUATION VACANT Senior Team Leader – State Heritage Register, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage

Senior Team Leader, State Heritage Register
Office of Environment and Heritage

Location: Parramatta
Job Grade/Classification: Environment Officer Class 12
Employment Status: Ongoing Full-Time
Vacancy Ref: OEH 165-14

Lead a team to develop and implement the Heritage Council’s NSW Heritage Listing Program and work collaboratively with the Listings Teams in the Regions to deliver the outcomes.

Selection Criteria

  1. Experience in the successful delivery of heritage programs
  2. Experience in the assessment of heritage significance with knowledge of the needs, issues and problems relating to heritage conservation and familiarity with current best practices, guidelines and policies
  3. Demonstrated knowledge of the current NSW heritage legislation
  4. High level expertise in the analysis of complex concepts, problems and issues, and developing and applying creative and practical solutions with ability to negotiate effectively, while exercising sound judgement and appropriate discretion
  5. Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to manage people to consistently deliver against agreed performance standards
  6. Demonstrated stakeholder management skills, including developing effective working relationships to facilitate the achievement of heritage programs
  7. Superior negotiation, verbal and written communication skills and business acumen including experience in developing advice and complex reports, submissions and briefing documents
  8. Thorough understanding of the ”machinery” of government including protocols, policies, processes and procedures

For further information and to download the information pack, click here. (If this this link doesn’t work, go to the Jobs NSW website and use the reference “165-14 – 00002RYY” to search for the role).

Applications close Monday 21 July 2014.

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18. SITUATION VACANT Senior Heritage Consultant, AHMS, Sydney

SENIOR HERITAGE CONSULTANT – TEMPORARY FULL-TIME POSITION
(Part-time arrangement may be considered)

AHMS is a leading heritage and archaeological consultancy servicing Australia and the Asia Pacific since 1998. We specialize in provision of archaeological and heritage management services to a diverse range of private and public sector clients. Our team of archaeologists and heritage specialists have over 25 years experience in providing quality archaeological and heritage advice to clients.

AHMS has an opportunity for someone new to join our team in a senior project management and team leadership role. The position has primary focus on historic heritage and project management but we are always keen to discover professionals with the flexibility of strengths across both historic and Indigenous heritage and / or in other specialist areas such as social value and cultural landscape assessment. The position is offered as a 12 month contract subject to a 3 months probationary review period. On completion of the contract there may be an opportunity to renew for a further period to be determined subject to performance and our operational and workload requirements. This position will suit a highly motivated professional, with project management experience and well-developed report and proposal writing skills who enjoys working in a close-knit supportive team environment, and who is keen to demonstrate their leadership skills.

For further information, download the Senior Heritage Consultant, AHMS position description.

Applications close 11 July 2014.

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19. SITUATION VACANT Consultant to develop a Community Collections Strategy and Action Plan, Bendigo Regional Archives Centre

Strategic Consultant Contract Position

A Strategic Consultant is required for a short term contract position. A request for quote is required. An outline of the position and the opportunity are detailed here. The position with attractive remuneration is to start on 4 August 2014.

Request for Quote

The Bendigo Regional Archives Centre (BRAC) is seeking the services of a suitably qualified consultant to develop a Community Collections Strategy and Action Plan.

The purpose of this project is to provide the BRAC Committee of Management with a report that will:

  • Provide guidelines for the collection of historical paper records from private individuals, businesses and community organisations.
  • Identify potential areas of specialty for BRAC in line with our mission and goals.
  • Identify records within the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre Catchment Area appropriate for transfer into the BRAC collection.
  • Improve and share collection knowledge within the Greater Bendigo Region to support better referral and access to Bendigo’s historical records

Budget

Up to $10,000

Timeframes

Project to begin in early August 2014 and be completed by Friday 7 November 2014.

Key dates

  1. Request for Quote advertised by 20 June 2014
  2. Applications received by COB Fri 11 July 2014
  3. Consultant selected by Fri 25 July 2014
  4. Project to begin as close to Mon 4 August 2014 as possible
  5. Project completed by Fri 7 Nov 2014

Bendigo Regional Archives Centre is situated within the Bendigo Library, 251-259 Hargreaves Street, Bendigo, 3550.

Quotations to

Vivien Newton, Project Manager

For more information refer to the BRAC Community Collections Strategy Consultants Brief.

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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
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Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
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Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
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