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 🔗Architectural Historian

  • Full Time
  • Chicago, IL
  • $66,942.00 - $126,198.00 USD / Year
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: Historic Preservation
  • Job Summary: The ideal candidate has experience as an architectural historian, historic structures specialist, National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 reviewer, or historic preservation specialist.
  • Job Qualifications:

    Education:

    You must have completed the appropriate degree program(s) and experience in Architectural History, Architecture, Historic Architecture, per the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards as defined and officially adopted in 1983 (48 FR 44716, September 29) and the Secretary of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Professional Qualification Standards as expanded and revised in 1997 (62 FR 33708, June 20).

    Qualifications:

    1. Reviewing projects to ensure compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and providing a recommendation to reduce potential adverse impacts
    2. Developing historic preservation documentation, reports, or plans (e.g., written consultation to State Historic Preservation Offices, Tribal Nations, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation)
    3. Reviewing and making technical comments on historic preservation documentation

  • How to Apply:

    Please submit a cover letter and resume to fema-r5-ehp-jobs@fema.dhs.gov

     

    Please use Historic Architect as the subject of your email.

  • Job benefits: https://www.dhs.gov/employee-resources/my-benefits
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: The job is based in Chicago, Illinois. The job is not a remote job. The position is eligible to work from home per the agency telework policy, which is current 3 days a week from home.
  • Application Email: fema-r5-ehp-jobs@fema.dhs.gov
  • Application Address: Attention: Historic Preservation FEMA Region 5 536 S Clark St 6th Floor Chicago IL 60605

Website FEMA Region 5

Specialized Experience:

Experience completing historic structures or district surveys, preparing or reviewing National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 consultations, and drafting treatment measures.

Duties:

• Reviewing projects to ensure compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

• Utilize existing Programmatic Agreement efficiencies to review projects with limited potential to impact historic resources.

• Use of 36 CFR Part 800 in project review and decision making.

• Draft agency consultations to State Historic Preservation Offices, Tribal Nations, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation pursuant to 36 CFR Part 800, to include all effects determinations; no historic properties affected, no adverse effects, and adverse effects.

• Utilize existing agency consultation formatting templates and procedures.

• Reviewing contractor developed Determinations of Effect and consultation material.

• Provide recommendations to reduce potential adverse impacts

• Participating in meetings and site visits to convey historic preservation concepts to stakeholders by providing advice or guidance

• Offer Regional Environmental Officer and Senior Historic Preservation Specialists input in Programmatic Agreement negotiation to further streamline federal review