Olympic & Paralympic Initiatives Project Lead

JDS Sports; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Educational assistance and development

Paid vacation and holidays

On-site fitness center

Job summary

Getty is seeking a Project Manager Specialist for Olympic and Paralympic Initiatives within its Communications and Community Engagement department. This role supports planning and execution for the 2028 Games, coordinating work across arts, sports, and global engagement with internal teams and external partners.

Reporting to the Senior Director, you will translate priorities into integrated project plans, manage timelines and budgets, and drive initiatives from planning through execution.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of project management theories and practices for complex cross-functional projects.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, partnerships, requests, and priorities concurrently and meet deadlines.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams without direct reporting relationships.
• Strong relationship-management, facilitation, negotiation and consensus-building skills.
• Anticipate and identify project risks and issues, develop solutions and escalate as needed.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills for diverse audiences.
• Tact, diplomacy, discretion, and sound judgment in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with balance of strategy and execution.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration software/tools.
• Interest in connections between arts, sports, and large-scale global events.

Responsibilities

• Manages and directs complex, cross-functional projects related to planning for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• Translates priorities into integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resources, milestones, and deliverables.
• Leads cross-functional coordination across Getty departments, identifying dependencies and risks and ensuring follow-through.
• Evaluates requests and opportunities with senior leadership, clarifying requirements and prioritizing next steps.
• Manages coordination with external organizations and partners, aligning activities and timelines with institutional priorities.
• Coordinates communications and community engagement activities, integrating plans with broader projects.
• Facilitates meetings; documents decisions and changes; tracks responsibilities, deadlines, budgets, risks, deliverables; escalates issues.
• Prepares updates and briefing materials for senior leadership and coordinates consultants, vendors, contracts, and resources as needed.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Meeting facilitation

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Communication skills

Organization & detail orientation

Software tools proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Getty is seeking a Project Manager Specialist for Olympic and Paralympic Initiatives within its Communications and Community Engagement department. This role supports planning and execution for the 2028 Games, coordinating work across arts, sports, and global engagement with internal teams and external partners.

Reporting to the Senior Director, you will translate priorities into integrated project plans, manage timelines and budgets, and drive initiatives from planning through execution.