Program Specialist ; Archaeologist

Position Description

This posting will be used to fill a full-time, permanent position as an Archaeologist for the Preservation Stewardship Program in the Office of Planning and Zoning. This position is within the Cultural Resources Section and reports to the Preservation Stewardship Program Manager. This is a program management support position in the field of cultural resources management, planning, and program management, requiring knowledge of a range of program issues to perform recurring assignments involving standard principles and practices.

The position is based at the County Archaeology Laboratory in London town, but duties will require remote and off-site work locations within the County. The Preservation Stewardship Program was established to promote, facilitate, and enable the preservation, discovery, and stewardship of public and privately-owned cultural resources, historic structures, and archaeological sites in Anne Arundel County. The program is also responsible for the management of the County’s official repository of curated archaeological collections within the County.

This is a soundly humanities-based program that seeks to raise awareness and appreciation of local heritage. Since its inception, the Program has undertaken numerous projects and extensive public programming related to local history, archaeology, heritage and preservation. The Program also supports academic development of humanities scholars, through its student internship program in local history and archaeology. As part of the Anne Arundel County Cultural Resources Section, the Program undertakes a wide range of programming initiatives including inter-agency workshops, weekly volunteer laboratory days, as well as traveling archaeology exhibits which it brings to local history and archaeology events to engage the public about their local heritage.

Program team members regularly hold hands-on fieldwork experiences for the public, workshops, lecture series, and host several school programs annually including field trips for local school students where they can learn about archaeology by participating alongside professional archaeologists and heritage professionals on an active archaeological site and handling real artifacts.

The successful candidate will have an opportunity to direct the survey, identification, evaluation and mitigation of archaeological resources within the County. In that role, they will facilitate public engagement to promote the stewardship of the archaeological and historic resources in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

In general, the occupational field of program management work involves directing or carrying out assignments in one or more programs or management staff functions that are directly related to the agency's mission of providing services to County residents. This field of work is distinguished from management-support functions such as personnel, budgeting or other administrative-type tasks which are designed to facilitate the activities of other employees providing direct services.

The majority of contacts are with employees in the same or other departments and agencies of the County government, State and Federal agencies, non-profit and private sector organizations or citizens. The purpose of the contacts, which normally are of a cooperative nature with both parties working toward mutual goals, are for coordinating or resolving program operating problems and/or providing technical or subject-matter information.

An employee in this class utilizes knowledge of program management support and program subject matter principles, techniques, functions, regulations and procedures in carrying out a variety of standard assignments within a defined area of one or more programs. Assignments may also require knowledge of and skill in using computer and automated office technology. Some recurring contract monitoring responsibilities may be assigned to positions in this class appropriate to the level and type of other duties assigned.

The employee independently plans and carries out the aspects of program implementation and resolves problems and deviations in accordance with policies and program practices. The supervisor reviews methods and approaches used in carrying out the program for conformance to policy and established requirements. The employee uses discretion and independent judgment in locating, selecting and applying the appropriate guidelines, references and procedures to respond to specific situations and may determine which of several alternative courses of action to use.

The work involves a range of recurring problems and issues requiring the employee to decide on factors that must be identified and analyzed to determine relationships with existing criteria. Work output affects the social,physical or economic well-being of program participants or recipients of services.

Specifically for this position, the Archaeologist oversees archaeological fieldwork for research,…