Head, Arches Initiative

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The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) works internationally to advance conservation practice in the visual arts—objects, collections, architecture, and sites. We serve the conservation community through scientific research, education and training, field projects, and disseminating information. In all our endeavors, we create and deliver knowledge that contributes to the conservation of the world's cultural heritage. Within the Getty Conservation Institute, the Heritage Data Management:
Arches department works to improve data management internationally in support of more effective cultural heritage conservation. As part of that work, the department is responsible for supporting the Arches® platform—which is freely available for cultural heritage organizations to independently deploy to manage cultural heritage data—and its open‑source community. Arches is an open‑source data management platform providing a robust suite of software tools to support a broad range of data management needs of the international cultural heritage community.

The software integrates a wide range of modern and innovative tools, including semantic, geospatial, and web technologies. The Heritage Data Management:
Arches department is comprised of team members with experience and expertise in all aspects of data management including knowledge organization and related standards, managing software development, open‑source software community building, and the application of information to support the understanding, conservation, and management of cultural heritage. The Head, Arches Initiative will lead the activities of the department with budget, planning, and staffing oversight, and is accountable for the maintenance and development priorities of Arches software, the governance efforts of the Arches open‑source community, and the dissemination of Arches publications, branding changes, and community resources.

The Head, Arches Initiative will not only direct the Arches team but also liaise with the global and interdisciplinary heritage open‑source community, including representatives from various leading heritage organizations, software developers and service providers, funding groups, and individual heritage professionals such as IT staff, archaeologists, architects, conservators, researchers, scientists, and educators.

This position is based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.

• Ensuring alignment between Getty leadership and the broader Arches heritage community regarding governance and needs.
• Facilitating the development, oversight and implementation of Arches’ strategic priorities and effectively relationship-building to ensure mission is centered and standards of delivery are consistent.
• Engaging key members of the global cultural heritage community, software development partners and service providers to elicit requirements, comment on potential technical solutions, share data, and participate in testing of Arches software.
• Managing the increasing intricacy of programs and the diversity of stakeholder interests, prioritizing conflicting needs in an open‑source ecosystem.

• Managing the growing complexity of developing technology and gaining stakeholder buy‑in regarding various interconnected Arches technologies (including core Arches, Arches for Science, Arches Lingo, and other related applications).
• Identifying areas of technical debt and establishing new priorities to reflect emerging community needs and…