Historic Preservation Specialist - Archaeologist

Historic Preservation Specialists perform professional cultural resource management activities in the form of statewide historic preservation efforts to ensure compliance with State and/or federal programs, laws, rules and regulations. This includes cooperating with other agencies and the public in conducting a comprehensive statewide survey of cultural resources and maintaining a paper, electronic, and/or GIS inventory of such properties; identifying and nominating eligible resources to the National and State Registers of Historic Places;

preparing and implementing a comprehensive statewide historic preservation plan; assisting in the administration of the federal historic preservation assistance program within the State; advising and assisting as appropriate, federal and State agencies and local governments in carrying out their historic preservation responsibilities; cooperating with federal agencies, local governments and the public to ensure that cultural resources are taken into consideration at all levels of planning and development;

providing public information, education, training and technical assistance relating to Federal and State Historic Preservation Programs; cooperating with local governments in the development of local historic preservation programs, and assisting local governments in becoming Certified Local Governments (CLGs); providing technical advice to the State of Nevada’s Commission for Cultural Centers and Historic Preservation (CCCHP); managing the statutorily-mandated Nevada Site Stewardship Program;

administration of the Comstock Historic District for the State as per the requirements of NRS 384; management of the Comstock History Center in Virginia City; administration of Nevada’s Native American burial protection legislation.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree from an accredited university in archeology, anthropology, architectural history, art history, history, historic preservation, cultural geography or related field and one year of professional experience in research, writing, or teaching American architectural history, restoration architecture, history, art history, or historic preservation with an academic institution; working for a professional historic preservation consulting firm or a Federal, state, or local entity performing historic preservation work in archaeological research, architectural history, history, or historic preservation;
  
  or managing and/or maintaining cultural resource databases to include the digitization of GIS data, data validation and normalization, and resolution of duplicates;
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in architectural history, history, art history, anthropology, historic preservation or closely related field and two years of professional experience as described above;
• One year of experience as a Historic Preservation Specialist I level in Nevada State service;
• An equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Recommend and conduct surveys of areas deemed priority due to development activities or a need for data; conduct background literature searches to determine survey needs and properties anticipated, locating project areas, walking transects, identifying and recording cultural resource sites, developing plan maps of cultural resource sites, photographing buildings, sites and artifacts, describing the setting including geology, flora and fauna, landscape and streetscape;

develop contexts and aid in evaluating properties discovered.

Evaluate resources for National or State Register listing; review for technical and substantive content nominations to the National and State Registers of Historic Places submitted by individuals and governmental agencies to ensure adequate documentation of resources and compliance with National and State Register standards; edit and revise National and State Register nominations involving research with primary and secondary source material, writing, photographing, developing accurate legal descriptions of boundaries, and plotting locations on U.S.G.S. topographical maps;

provide recommendations regarding suitability of nominations to the State…