Description

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Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a motivated and dynamic Senior Architectural Historian for our Cultural Resources Team. The qualified candidate will work in close coordination with our diverse team of historians and with Senior Project Management on a range of cultural resources documentation projects.

This role can be fully remote.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Conduct and direct background research and built environment fieldwork

• Develop contextual analyses

• Make recommendations regarding eligibility under the National Register of Historic Places

• Oversee the development of background studies, historic resources survey reports, historic context statements, and National Register eligibility evaluations

• Coordinate with other staff to ensure the quality of data, fieldwork, and documentation

• Contribute to or lead business development endeavors by preparing scopes of work, budgets, proposals, statements of qualifications, and presentations to clients, in collaboration with leadership

• Provide management support to field teams and subcontractors

• Manage and mentor team members

• Additional duties may include local and National Register of Historic Places nominations, preservation plans, historic structure reports, cultural resource education materials, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) documentation, planning and implementing of mitigation, and other types of special projects

• Requires field work and out-of-town travel

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Excellent organization, coordination, management, and leadership skills

• Demonstrated technical leadership and writing skills

• Experience preparing and managing budgets and proposals

• Strong ability to motivate staff and promote teamwork within and across offices

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Valid driver's license and good driving record required

Education and Experience

The successful applicant will meet, at a minimum, the Secretary of the Interior’s Qualifications Standards for history or architectural history

Graduate degree in Historic Preservation, Public History, or closely related field

6 or more years of professional experience

Knowledge and experience working with Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act

Other Desired Experience

Previous experience conducting Section 106 report documentation and survey work for DOTs and/or other federal or state governmental agencies

Experience with historic resource database management

Experience working with infrastructure and transportation-related projects

Excellent problem-solving skills, particularly in complex CRM projects

Project management experience, including a proven ability to be on time and on budget

This position works in both field and office settings. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather, remote locations, summer heat, rough terrain; as well as bending, stooping, carrying field equipment, standing, and walking for extended periods of time.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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