Culture and Heritage Director

Overall supervision of the Burns Paiute Tribe Culture and Heritage Department including review and compliance, language program, education program and community outreach. Responsible for employee supervision and budget development.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the Burns Paiute Tribal Cultural Code, BPT-National Park Service (NPS) Memorandum of Agreement for assumption of responsibilities, The BPT Aboriginal Lands Protection Policy, and all of the ordinances, policies, resolutions, and TC motions that concern the Culture & Heritage Dept.
• Facilitates the expedited return and reinterment of tribal Ancestors taken from their burials and ensuring that any reported Ancestral remains are kept in their places of rest.
• Responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act Section (NHPA) 106 process (and other sections), and all other tribal, local, state, and federal legislation concerning the protection of tribal heritage and culture.
• Serves as the Primary principal investigator (meets federal standards) to perform research and study in ethnography, history, ethnobotany, and archaeology.
• Performs cultural inventory and assessments of major land exchange, acquisition, and use projects within the tribe’s 5250 square mile aboriginal lands.
• Participates in the planning, preparation, and review of multiple-use resource management plans and environmental impact documents.
• Performs a variety of administrative tasks related to the program (i.e., permit review, site monitoring, project coordination, mitigation negotiation and performance) for tribal and non-tribal lands in the BPT’s Aboriginal Territory.
• Consults internally with appropriate parties and externally with tribes and cultural resource specialists and land management managers on cultural issues and topics.
• Serves as point-of-contact for the Burns Paiute Tribe’s Culture & Heritage concerns interacting with Burns Paiute tribal community, other tribal communities, federal and state agencies, local municipalities, and private companies.
• Responsible for the management of interdisciplinary programs within the Culture & Heritage Department including higher education, youth opportunity program, adult vocational training, employment relocation program.
• Represents the tribe in government-to-government relations and negotiations concerning culture and cultural heritage.
• Provides expert advice using the framework of legal, policy, ordinance, and code guidance.
• Coordinates and provide training to various tribal and eternal entities on traditional tribal customs and practices, sacred sites issues, tribal cultural places, and tribal history.
• Participates with counterparts in reviewing and drafting national and state policy, program processes, and design/development of programs to complement cultural differences between the American Indian Tribal Governments and other entities.
• Plans projects and activities to ensure protection of American Indian rights and tribal rights and concerns.
• Holds advanced knowledge of Northern Paiute culture to communicate effectively with leadership as well as individuals of other organizations, dignitaries, and elected officials with respect to critical issues facing the Burns Paiute tribe and Indian Country.
• Works with other community tribal community members, staff, and outside entities who have diverse interests, concerns, issues, and values including other tribes.
• Skilled in conflict resolution and interest-based negotiation to resolve conflict, negotiate agreements and achieve objectives with respect to other entities.
• Evaluates the content of new or modified legislation (federal/tribal/state) for projected impact upon organizational programs and resources.
• Provides leadership, oversight, and management direction for formulation, interpretations, and administration of the policies regarding grants and agreements.
• Develops instruments and analyze responses to make or recommend acceptance by higher authority on strategic grant acquisition.
• Determines appropriate legislative and program authority prior to execution of each grant or agreement.
• Seeks as necessary agreement…