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The J. Paul Getty Museum's Antiquities Conservation department seeks a highly organized, responsible and flexible individual to provide administrative support for the department as a Senior Staff Assistant. The successful candidate will be proficient with Microsoft Office applications and data systems, have strong administrative, communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills and exercise discretion in dealing with confidential information.
Duties require largely independent execution, including: coordinating meetings, events, and domestic and international travel; composing and tracking a wide range of documents, and preparing reports. Regularly performs a variety of routine accounting, budget tracking and forecasting, expense reporting, filing, desktop computer support, mailing, and other clerical tasks. Anticipates departmental administrative needs and develops efficiencies to minimize workflow disruptions. Handles complex written and phone inquiries and interacts with all level of internal personnel and outside colleagues and guests.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks an Associate Conservator of Paintings to join the department of Paintings at the Getty Center. With the department conservators, this position shares responsibility for the care and study of the Museum’s holding of paintings with an active exhibition, publication, and loan program. The Paintings collection encompasses over 400 notable European paintings produced before 1900. While its parameters reflect J. Paul Getty’s own interests, in the decades following his death in 1976 the collection expanded considerably beyond his predilection for Italian Renaissance and seventeenth–century Dutch and Flemish painting to include major examples of early Italian and Netherlandish painting, eighteenth– and nineteenth–century French painting, and the Spanish and German schools. Conservation is an integral part of the core activities of the museum and the broader J. Paul Getty Trust.
Duties in this full-time position include treatment, technical study, and preventative care of the permanent collections as well as participation in the planning and installation of exhibitions and loans. The Associate Conservator will provide input into exhibition and acquisition processes; is expected to research and work toward the development of improved understanding of the collection and methodologies for its long-term preservation; is required to remain current with research and advances in the conservation field. The position will report to the Senior Conservator and work closely and collaboratively with colleagues across the Museum and other Trust programs, including direct involvement with the scientific staff of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). The ability to work on several projects simultaneously is essential.
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Supports curator by facilitating their research and/or assisting with their research projects, exhibitions or publications.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks a highly experienced Senior Public Program Specialist with a passion for innovative visual arts programming to manage the museum’s acclaimed lecture series at the Getty Center. This position serves a pivotal role in connecting our diverse audiences with an array of diverse speakers, both nationally and internationally, through a variety of formats that offer multiple perspectives on the visual arts. Under broad direction, the Senior Public Program Specialist collaborates across curatorial, exhibition, education, communications and other trust programs and departments to program over 30 lectures, panel discussions, symposia, screenings, and performances with commentary in two venues: 450-seat Harold Williams Auditorium, 150-seat Museum Lecture Hall. Reports directly to the Head of Museum Public Programs within the Education, Public Programs and Interpretive Content Department.
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This position has a regular schedule between 21 to 29 hours per week. Provides a wide range of visitors with an informative, enjoyable and memorable experience by supporting all functions (posts) of Visitor Services, including assisting with parking operations and ticketing, handling general information calls, ticketing for events, assisting with business visitors, staffing the information desk, the coat check, the audio guide distribution desks, ticket offices, event welcome tables and ushering duties at performance and lecture events among other tasks. May be required to work with cash handling and financial transactions. Provides assistance with general information and directions.
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Coordinates the planning, development, preparation, installation, promotion and documentation of Getty projects. Assists with developing and finalizing project plans and budgets. Tracks, monitors, and reports on project progress and expenses. May participate in the development and review of contracts with outside vendors and contractors. Supports and coordinates the work of outside consultants and various staff members from multiple departments. Coordinates work flow by setting work schedules and priorities. May review work performed by staff and consultants to ensure compliance with department quality control standards and federal and state regulations. May research and evaluate alternative processes and methods to determine the most cost-effective plan for obtaining the highest quality results. Projects assigned will include a large component of Furnitures, Fixtures and Equipment (FF&E) tracking, inventoring, replacing, dispatching for maintenance and repairs.
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Designs, installs and maintains a variety of state of the art security systems and related components including access control. Areas of specialization include closed circuit television, access intrusion alarms, access programming, fire/life safety, and commercial locksmith. May have vendor/contractor contact responsibilities. Works on assignments that are varied and complex in nature.
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Provides administrative and media relations support for the fast-paced Communications Department at the Getty Center, reporting to the Assistant Director, Media Relations.
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The Getty Research Institute seeks a full-time 3-year limited-term Research Specialist for the Florentine Codex initiative, which aims to digitize and publish the Florentine Codex online, along with its translations and transcriptions; and to produce a scholarly digital publication on the manuscript's twelfth book.
Reporting to the principal investigator, the Research Specialist’s primary task is to produce metadata in the form of authoritative structured vocabularies to describe the 2,500 images in the codex. This will involve identifying iconographic, formal, and material aspects of the images as well as drawing keywords from the accompanying texts. Conforming to the standards of the Getty vocabularies, this metadata will be produced in four languages: English, Spanish, Classical Nahuatl, and contemporary Huasteca Nahuatl in collaboration with a contemporary Huasteca Nahuatl consultant. Other potential tasks may include identifying scribal hands in the codex’s texts and images, producing paleographic analyses of the codex and related manuscripts, assisting in the organization of events tied to the project (such as workshops and symposia), and producing original research for presentations and publications.
The ideal candidate has expertise in early colonial Mexican art history; language abilities in English, Spanish, and Classical Nahuatl; experience working with databases and digital projects; advanced research and editorial skills; and is comfortable working in a collaborative team environment and across Getty departments and programs.
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We are looking for an individual to provide technical expertise to teams in providing solutions with Linux based systems. The Senior Linux Administrator will be required to gather business requirements, make recommendations and implement standards and solutions. You will be managing systems and services in the cloud and on premise. You will assist teams by building architectures for their services and in the adoption and deployment of DevOps processes and tools. You will help drive new technologies and policies to create scalable solutions.