Rebecca Van Der Werff

Experience

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  OMD Media Direction

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Media Executive

  • Media buying: booking ad-space for represented clients, maintaining and reporting media bookings to ensure each campaign meets the buying objectives. Ad spaces include TV, online, news press, magazines, radio, transport, and billboards in both metro and rural landscapes. • Office support to account management including filing/archiving, summarising documents/key meetings, event organisation, and reporting on industry news, new media, ratings and surveys. • Compiling post-analysis of competitive data and implementing creative strategy ideas.• Board member for the Media Federation of Australia ‘Ngen’ youth committee. Show less

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  Niagara Galleries

  Jan 2010 - Oct 2010

  Gallery Administrator

  • Personal assistant to the Gallery Director, Associate Director and Registrar.• Handling of artwork for exhibition, storage and travel.• Preparation of valuation and insurance documentation.• Maintaining the gallery database consisting of artworks, client details, sale invoices and promotional mail out data.• Researching art prizes, awards and grants for the artists.• Greeting clients, correspondence, directing phone queries and general exhibition event duties.• Organising staff meetings, travel, and maintaining gallery necessities and stationary supplies. Show less

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  Momentium Group/Genius Printing

  Oct 2010 - Mar 2012

  Administrator/Printing Assistant

  • Customer service representative for the business’s multiple printing brands.• Updating and maintaining the database with orders, customer details, wholesale information, promotional material and sales figures.• Strategising and implementing creative strategy ideas including promotional sales tactics, advertising, social media interaction, and art gallery exhibitions/competitions.• Providing customers with technical support with printing, products, and digital resolution queries.• Preparation of orders for shipping; including printing, cropping, framing, stretching, backing, wrapping, boxing, and scanning, etc. Show less

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  Verve Portraits

  Apr 2012 - Sept 2016

  Artwork Production Administrator and Printing Coordinator

  • Coordinating the daily operation of three large format Epson stylus printers and Onyx RIPCentre software within the artwork production department. Providing manufacturing staff with digital giclee prints on various media and substrates to laminate and mount.• Administration of incoming image files, client invoices, data entry, trading reports, deadline managing, and material purchasing. • Liaising with suppliers, freight companies, printer and software maintenance specialists, studio staff, photographers, designers and clients.• Quality assurance of artwork and assistance with framing, mounting, wrapping and delivering artwork when necessary.• Acting department manager for a 12 month period. Show less

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  Town Hall Gallery Hawthorn

  Mar 2014 - Aug 2016

  Gallery Assistant

  (A part-time position for weekends and evenings. Performed in addition to working full-time at Verve Portraits)• Responsible for opening and closing the gallery. Setting up security systems, lighting, and audio-visual installations.• Assisting the curatorial team with administration tasks, artwork handling and sales of artwork.• Greeting and providing assistance to gallery visitors, patrons, artists, students, and art collectors.• Supervising gallery volunteer staff.• Customer service and sales activities in the gallery retail gift shop.• Serving beverages and taking photos for exhibition openings and events. Show less

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  The Exhibition Centre

  Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

  Picture Framer

  • All aspects of modern picture framing – client consultation, mat board cutting, joining of frame moulding, glass and acrylic cutting, canvas stretching, wood finishing, and artwork handling.• Framing of traditional artworks of all mediums, as well as indigenous artefacts, photography, certificates, textiles, sports jerseys, and war memorabilia. All with a strong focus on proper conservation framing techniques.• Entrusted to frame important art and documents for various government and cultural institutions. These have included: The National Portrait Gallery, MoAD, DFAT, Reconciliation Australia, and The National Archives.• Repair and conservation of clients existing damaged artwork and frames.• Assisting with the installation of artwork within the foyer gallery and at various offsite locations. Show less

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  Geoscience Australia

  Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

  Digitisation and Cataloguing Officer

  • Digital image capturing and transcription of vintage reports and analogue data submitted by the Petroleum Industry to Geoscience Australia under legislative requirements.• Database management such as creating, updating, interrogating and deleting of records associated with the physical and digital data.• Responsible for project deliverables and responding to requests for data from internal and external clients. Involving weekly reporting on team statistics and workflow to management and stakeholders.• Research, identification and classification of both new and legacy petroleum data.• Digitisation of complex hardcopy data such as reports, maps, well logs and seismic sections. Often involving the use of large format scanners and image manipulation through editing software.• Quality Control monitoring of digital files and associated metadata of other team members. Show less

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  Australian War Memorial

  Jun 2020 - Dec 2021

  Assistant Curator, Digitisation on Demand, Digitised Collections

  • Coordinating Research Centre Digitisation on Demand workflows for Private and Official Records. • Performing a range of administrative tasks including, processing orders for the Digitisation on Demand service involving the preparation of estimates and invoice documentation, and client correspondence.• Maintaining and monitoring digitisation workflows including image ingestion into the Memorial Digital Asset Management System.• Assisting Reading Room staff and researchers with collection movement and retrieval of published and archival collections. Show less

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  Australian War Memorial

  Feb 2023 - now

  Assistant Curator, Digitised Collections

  • Conducting copyright research including securing permissions and/or applications of exemptions for the Memorial and the Digitisation Project for selected Research Centre Collections.• Preparing copyright documentation for Section Head approval whilst interpreting and working under strict legislative requirements within the Australian 1968 Copyright Act and Australian 1983 Archives Act. • Arrange, describe and cataloguing Research Centre collection material on the Memorial’s Collection Management System and performing data clean up as required.• Participating in team planning, training processes, and creating new procedure and policy documents. Show less