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🔗Archaeologist 1

Website Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA)
Required education and experience:
· Master’s degree or PhD in Anthropology or closely related field with Archaeology emphasis.
· Completion of accredited field school.
· Familiarity with the Section 106 process.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience:
· Six months or more field experience.
Required skills and abilities:
· General: Proficient in the use of technology to include, but not limited to GPS and other data collection devises, use of online databases, digital cameras, scanners, and audio recordings, and computer software such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Requires valid driver’s license and ability to operate passenger car and/or light truck.
· Teamwork: Develop and maintain positive relationships, ability to balance work schedules and demands, provide and accept feedback, seek to resolve conflict through communication and collaboration, use effective verbal and written communication, listen and communicate effectively. Successfully function within a project team, work closely with project team members, and take direction from a project manager.
· Research: Conduct background research in various sources including ethnographies, soils/environmental/cultural background, SHPO databases, GLO plats, land patents/historic maps, and tax assessments. Have the ability to recognize the need for and locate additional background or archival resources.
· Writing: Sufficient technical writing skills to contribute to deliverables. Contribute to research, inventory, resource evaluation, and monitoring plans and reports; the ability to contribute to high quality products with knowledge and understanding of appropriate style for the document.
· Field: Successful use of a compass, topographic maps, GPS with ArcGIS Online and ESRI Field Maps, and related field equipment. Able to excavate shovel probes and conduct pedestrian survey in sometimes arduous conditions.
· Strong verbal and writing communication skills.
· Ability to remember and follow detailed instructions.
· Willingness to travel throughout the Pacific Northwest and the rest of the U.S. (especially the west).
Candidates should assume that up to 70 percent of their time will be spent in the field, and approximately 30 percent of that travel will be outside of Seattle.