Senior Museum Acquisitions Specialist

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online. Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects.

We are committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage. Our staff members are art lovers who are passionate about working toward a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring art museum in the world. At The Met, every staff member – from security officers to researchers to scientists and beyond – lives by our core values of respect, inclusivity, collaboration, excellence, and integrity.

Respect:
Engage one another with collegiality, empathy, and kindness, always. Inclusivity:
Ensure that all are and feel welcome and valued.

Collaboration:

Reach across boundaries to exchange ideas and work together toward our shared mission. Excellence:
Lead the cultural world in quality and expertise—and inspire curiosity and creativity. Integrity:
Hold ourselves to the highest moral standards, admit when we fall short, and then evolve.

As the Senior Museum Acquisitions Specialist, you will manage the procedures for acquisitions of art, deaccessioning and disposal, and other collections management procedures. You will develop reports, prepare summaries for the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees and provide administrative support for other Board Committees and the Board of Trustees. You will partner with the attorneys in Counsel’s Office, curatorial and conservation departments, Registrar’s Office, Finance, Director’s Office, and Development.

This position is fully on-site.

• Manage the acquisitions and deaccessioning/disposals processes (including other collections-related issues, such as abandoned property, retroaccessioning, reaccessioning, found objects, N.A. numbers, study and touch collections) at Museum.
• Review submissions for the General Counsel & Secretary’s approval.
• Review documentation for acquisitions of art, deaccessioning and disposal.
• Facilitate deaccessioning, such as oversee correspondence from related inboxes, maintain databases, and prepare reports for the Board of Trustees and other Board Committees.
• Review and proofread meeting materials for the Board of Trustees and other Board Committee meetings, including minutes, draft correspondence, and reports
• Draft internal memos and reports for acquisitions
• Draft policies and procedures related to Museum acquisitions
• Review gift and purchase paperwork for art acquisitions, and gifts-in-kind (including for touch and study collections).
• Assist in processing of paperwork for acquisitions, as needed
• Review documentation for Workday invoices and purchases of art
• Administer Museum accounts with third-parties for acquisitions
• Support provenance research related to acquisitions
• Oversee the processing of departmental loan paperwork
• Compile responses to institutional surveys
• Clip news articles and prepare summaries for Board Committees
• Prepare reports on acquisitions for senior management
• Work on research projects related to acquisitions of art
• Administer the Board and Acquisitions sections of the Counsel’s Office internal SharePoint site and manage documents on the Counsel’s Office k-drive
• Review and prepare files for deposit in Museum Archives.
• Coordinate and maintain the archival process of Board materials
• Assist in preparation for Board and Board Committee meetings and any Dry Runs
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