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Senior Project Specialist
Position Description
As Senior Project Specialist, you will direct the African American Historic Places, Los Angeles Project (AAHPLA), which is a collaboration between Getty and the Los Angeles City Planning, Office of Historic Resources to advance the understanding, identification, protection, conservation, and celebration of the city’s Black heritage. This includes:
- Managing Getty’s AAHPLA team and developing project plans, staffing, and budgets, as well as partner and consultant agreements.
- Contributing to the completion of AAHPLA cultural heritage preservation strategies for three historically African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles, which will be under development by a project consultant in 2025 and 2026.
- Identifying mechanisms, potential partners and resources for the implementation of the AAHPLA neighborhood cultural preservation strategies.
- Developing strong relationships with Los Angeles City Planning, Office of Historic Resources and other project partners and working collaboratively to build local expertise, through seminars, symposia, and workshops, to ensure the long-term sustainability of project outcomes.
- Undertaking research, drawing on international and national efforts, to identify strategies for historic preservation policies and processes that better support social justice and equity goals (may result in publications, tools, guidelines and training).
- Developing a dissemination plan and writing/co-writing conference papers and project publications to share the results of the work.
- Work with colleagues to further advance community empowered processes and practices for our work including building process and systems, upskilling staff and integration of processes across projects.
- Disseminate and make accessible Getty resources and training materials related to urban heritage, including materials from past training programs.
- Advance economic research needs that demonstrate the benefits of conservation across a range of projects areas including AAHPLA.
- Manage and provide direction to multi-disciplinary project teams, which include staff, interns, consultants, and project partners; supervise and mentor multiple direct reports.
- Provide advice and work collaboratively to resolve technical or operational project issues.
- Maintain a large professional network within the conservation/urban planning community.
- Develop resource plans and manage project budgets.
- Undertake research, write, publish, and present at professional venues in order to broadly disseminate results.
- Professional development is encouraged and supported through attendance at specialized training courses and participation in professional meetings and workshops.
Company/Organization Description
Getty is committed to creating a welcoming workplace that reflects the various backgrounds of the communities we serve. We value differences in the pursuit of inquiry and knowledge, mutual understanding, respect, trust, transparency, and cooperation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, color, disability, ethnicity, familial status, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected status.
Pay Range (Annual): Greater than $100,000
Location: LOS ANGELES, CA
Job Type: Full Time
How to Apply
https://jobs-getty.icims.com/jobs/4681/senior-project-specialist/job











