Located in Richmond, Virginia

Position Vacancy, #00049

ROLE:  Historian/Archaeologist & Preservationist III, PAY BAND 5

WORKING TITLE:  Project Review Architectural Historian

SALARY:  $40,959 – $52,981 depending on experience (Career potential to $84,062)    

Responsibilities: Conducts reviews of federal and state projects based upon substantive analysis and provides written comments regarding the project’s effects on historic and architectural resources. Requests additional information, makes recommendations for further identification efforts, provides opinions on the consistency of survey programs and eligibility decisions with relevant federal and state regulations and guidelines, makes assessment of effect, requests consideration of alternatives, and recommends treatment with appropriate consideration of the public benefit, agency and state initiatives and larger preservation issues. Makes site inspections to interpret specific landscape and restoration/rehabilitation problems and to identify solutions. Promote appropriate rehabilitation and restoration measures for federal and state-owned property by providing technical assistance and guidance on preservation technology and procedures. Provide training workshops in statutory requirements for historic resources and/or available preservation tools.

Qualifications: Superior oral and written communications skills; knowledge of United States and Virginia history and architectural history; proven ability in planning, conducting, and assessing historic structure and cultural landscape surveys and National Register nominations; demonstrated contributions to the study of architectural history in publications, National Register nominations and/or CRM reports; considerable knowledge of technical, legal, and historic resources management practices and procedures as they apply to architectural history and historic buildings, structures, districts and landscapes; knowledge of and experience in applying the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties; demonstrated experience in CRM and the Section 106 review process; experience in working as part of an interdisciplinary team; ability to instruct/guide others positively. Applicants must meet the Secretary Of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in Architectural History, Architecture, or Historic Architecture.  

Submission of Application Requirements: To be considered for this position you must complete a state application through the on-line employment system at https://jobs.agencies.virginia.gov by 5:00 p.m. on October 9, 2009.  Resumes may be attached but may not substitute for a state application.            

EOE M/F/M AND INDIVIDUALS WITH A DISABILITY ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY