Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $92,332 - $104,762
Grade: VPS 4
Occupation: Arts, sports and recreation
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/SLV/EXP/1868966
About the role
The Program Lead, Knowledge Precinct develops and delivers innovative public programs and events that strategically position the Library as a key destination within Melbourne's Knowledge and Innovation Precinct, fostering meaningful engagement with audiences. The role leads programs that are designed to enhance the Library's vision, mission, and business objectives, while expanding its reach and influence.
The Program Lead, Knowledge Precinct is accountable for the following measurable outcomes:
About You
The ideal candidate has strategic planning strengths that ensure day-to-day planning and work processes are in line with team, Branch, and State Library Victoria strategy. With experience leading literary and thought leadership events and programming, your fluency with agile project management processes enables you to execute and deliver programs and projects with impact and at scale. You successfully manage budgets, procurement and contracting processes and other administrative systems that enable performance reporting. Underpinning this, your ability to correlate data with continuous improvement drives your approach to innovation.
In addition, you will bring:
About the Library
State Library Victoria preserves and shares the stories of Victoria and the world, and is a major destination for stimulating cultural experiences, contemporary debates, and community-driven collecting. We encourage learning, exploration, imagination, and creativity, opening up possibilities for all Victorians.
State Library Victoria is a child-safe organisation. A valid Working with Children Check will be required before commencing.
State Library Victoria promotes a workplace that actively seeks to welcome and value the unique contributions of all people. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from cultural and linguistical diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+, D/deaf, disabled, neurodiverse people and people of all ages and abilities to apply.
How to apply
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You may also be interested in viewing our Program Lead, Exhibition Programs role which is being advertised concurrently.
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Reasonable Adjustments
We want all applicants to have an equal opportunity to demonstrate that they are the best person for the job. If you require an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, or the provision of a particular access service, please contact [email protected]
Applications close on Sunday, 20 July 2025 at 11.59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.