Associate Registrar of Rights and Reproductions (Healthcare)

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), one of the nation's most dynamic art museums, is seeking an Associate Registrar of Rights and Reproductions. Founded in 1799, PEM is dedicated to transforming people's lives by creating a museum experience that celebrates the capacity of art and culture to inform and change our understanding of our place in the world. By presenting art and culture in new ways, by linking past and present, and by embracing artistic and cultural achievements worldwide, the museum offers unique opportunities to explore multilayered and interconnected arenas of creative expression.

Associate Registrar of Rights and Reproductions is responsible for managing intellectual property rights for the museum's collections, exhibitions, publications, and programs. This position secures rights and images or other digital content for use in PEM's exhibitions, publications, programs, and promotional materials, as well fulfilling requests and managing licensing for reproductions of works from the museum's collections. Working in close collaboration with the Collections Systems Administrator, this position oversees the integration, processing, management, and distribution of images, captions, and rights information through the museum's digital asset management system (Piction). The Associate Registrar of Rights and Reproductions provides guidance to staff across the museum, helps to define intellectual property policies and procedures, and contributes to PEM's strategic goal of maximizing and increasing digital access to the collections.

Reporting to the Head Registrar, this position is a key member of the Registration department, working as part of the collection registration team and in close collaboration with the exhibition registrars. Additionally, the Associate Registrar of Rights and Reproductions works closely with Exhibition Planning, Curatorial, Collection Management and Marketing, participating on cross-departmental teams, collaborating with colleagues, and representing PEM with external stakeholders including peer institutions, artists, galleries, third party licensors, private individuals, and vendors.