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The Office of the General Counsel at the J. Paul Getty Museum seeks an Executive Assistant who will provide high-level administrative support to the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary.  The Executive Assistant will be highly organized, personable, proactive, and flexible, able to provide a variety of administrative duties and management skills for the office. The successful candidate will have exceptional communication skills (written and verbal), excellent ability to interact with staff,...
Requisition Number
2026-4731
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a creative, forward-looking, collaborative, and service-oriented cataloger to coordinate authority control and bibliographic maintenance functions and provide original and complex copy cataloging for published materials handled within the Getty Library.    As part of a key institutional priority, the GRI is advancing a transformative, program-wide approach to metadata strategy. This initiative includes the development and hiring of multiple metadata-focused positions designed to work collaboratively across domains to transform metadata governance, improve data quality, and prepare for a linked data future at GRI. This role, which resides in Published Materials...
Requisition Number
2026-4728
The Office of Scholars, Interns, and Professionals (OSIP) provides centralized administrative support to Getty-wide grant recipients, special guests, and their families before and during their residence at Getty. Working across all programs at Getty, OSIP sustains a high-quality service to help invited guests to achieve their academic, professional, and personal goals by functioning as a resource for a variety of life and administrative needs. The OSIP staff members work as a team. In addition, OSIP provides immigration support for Getty’s international community by providing guidance and support through the visa process and the duration of their residency.   The International Advisor works both...
Requisition Number
2026-4724
Getty Research Institute (GRI) invites applications for an Authorities & Entity Management Metadata Specialist (Metadata Specialist III) to join our newly established Digital Stewardship and Metadata Optimization team. Based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the GRI is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the visual arts and their histories. Serving an international community of scholars, the Research Library is one of the world’s largest art and architecture libraries, with holdings exceeding 1.5 million volumes. Our Special Collections encompass rare books and journals, photographs, prints and drawings from the 15th century to the present, architectural plans and models, art multiples, film, audio and video recordings, born-digital...
Requisition Number
2026-4723
Our Mission   The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance and is one of four programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust.  The Museum operates two facilities,...
Requisition Number
2025-4722
As part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, based in Los Angeles, the Getty Research Institute (GRI) is an international center with an extensive library, special collections, an array of programs, and a knowledgeable and diverse staff. We are committed to preserving, creating, and sharing resources related to the history of art, conceived in the broadest terms.   The Getty Research Institute's Office of Associate Director of Collections & Discovery is seeking an enthusiastic, highly organized, and proactive individual to join our team as a senior administrative coordinator! We need someone personable and flexible who can...
Requisition Number
2025-4719
The Investment Department seeks a highly organized, proactive, and flexible candidate to provide operational and administrative assistance to the team. Reporting to the Director of Investment Operations, the Investment Operations Assistant manages day-to-day operational and administrative tasks to include scheduling meetings, expense reports, travel, and managing communications with internal colleagues, business contacts, and vendors.   Getty has engaged Boyden for this search. If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please send your resume to Sean Myers at smyers@boyden.com. He will review...
Requisition Number
2025-4717
The Getty Research Institute seeks to appoint an Associate Curator to develop, administer, and present its collection of prints and drawings, which span the Renaissance to the contemporary era. The ideal candidate will be a specialist in Early Modern art history, and possess the capability and willingness to work across the breadth of the collection and with diverse graphic media. Under minimal supervision, develops, administers, and presents the GRI’s special collections of prints and drawings by acquisitions and donations, maintaining and managing them in collaboration with colleagues.  
Requisition Number
2025-4713
Our Mission   The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to inspire curiosity about, and enjoyment and understanding of, the visual arts by collecting, conserving, exhibiting, and interpreting works of art of outstanding quality and historical importance and is one of four programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust.  The Museum operates two sites, the Getty Villa in Malibu, which...
Requisition Number
2025-4711
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is searching for a dynamic and experienced professional Portfolio Project Manager (PPM) to establish project management processes under the GRI’s Administration Division. Reporting to the Associate Director of Administration, the PPM will bring together project managers working on various projects from across the GRI and with our external partners to build a cohesive methodology and approach to project management policies and procedures, effective communication, efficiencies of resources, and consistent practices including software, reporting, schedules and timelines, and resource management. The PPM will serve as a team manager as well as having project management responsibility for their own projects, as needed. Working...
Requisition Number
2025-4710