Isn't it great that Melbourne is now the UNESCO "City of Literature"?
It has recently formed the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas.
How utterly fabulous.
In the Oz Review this weekend, there's an ad for "multiple opportunities" at said Centre.
It turns out that, in fact, there are two.
Is that "multiple"?
The first is for a Head of Marketing and Communications.
This person is to "provide an innovative approach to sector-wide marketing and audience development issues".
Now, wouldn't you have thought that an institution specialising in books, writing and ideas could have written a job description in English instead of bureaucratese?
This ad will obviously attract some mindless adminion who wouldn't know a book, an example of writing or an idea if it sprang out of the filing cabinet and snotted them on the nose.
The second position is for an Executive Assistant.
Unpacked, this means a secretary to the Director, one Chrissy Sharp.
Interesting to me is the fact that the ad for this position uses the word "confidential" not once but twice -- multiply?
The person will provide "confidential ... support" and have experience in undertaking "confidential ... tasks".
They will also "exercise ... discretion".
Why all the secrecy?
Shouldn't books, writing and ideas be out there, warts and all, in the public?
So, it's just another public (=private) service (=self-interest) rort.
A waste of money that will have, I suspect, very little to do with books, writing and ideas and everything to do with marketing, publicity and tourism "opportunities".
Multiple ones.
