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 🔗Architect Intern – 480 hours

  • Internship
  • NCPE Internship
  • Washington D.C., DC
  • $22.00 USD / Hour
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: Heritage Documentation Programs (HABS, HALS, HAER)
  • Job Reference #: 4139a
  • Job Qualifications:

    Proficiency in the use AutoCAD to create plans, sections, elevations, and other architectural drawings is required. Prior to conducting interviews, select candidates will be required to submit a portfolio or work samples that demonstrate this proficiency.

    Willingness to learn about the collection and manipulation of 3-dimensional survey data.

    Ability to work collaboratively within a team of other architects and preservation professionals.

    Preferred candidates should be enrolled in their third year or higher, or recently graduated from, an undergraduate or graduate academic program with a focus on architecture, landscape architecture, or other related field.

  • How to Apply:

    Click on the application button at this listing and follow the instructions to apply online. If contacted for follow-up or an interview, you may be asked to submit a work sample that demonstrates your ability to undertake field measuring and completion of architectural measured drawings.

  • Job benefits: Paid time off (PTO); $1,000 housing stipend
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: Some field work and on-site investigation of the historic site is required, but most of the work is sedentary, in an office environment.
  • Application Email: waso_cr-intern@nps.gov

Website National Park Service/NCPE Internship Program

The Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) consist of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). The programs document historic sites and structures across the United States through the creation of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and historical reports. Documentation is archived in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Library of Congress and is available to the public without restriction. HDP is part of the National Park Service’s Cultural Resources, Partnerships, and Science Directorate.

The National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE)’s Internship Program is a partnership with the National Park Service and other Federal agencies with cultural resource protection and public land management responsibilities. The purpose of the program is to accomplish needed and important work on federally protected lands while providing program participants with professional experience in their chosen fields. Interns work under the guidance of agency staff who are subject area experts to carry out the mission of the park.

To be eligible, applicants must be between 18 and 30 years old (or 35 if a veteran) when starting the internship, a college student or recent graduate (within the past 12 months at the time of application), enrolled in a degree-seeking program, and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

Architecture and landscape architecture interns will assist in documenting several historic sites and may travel to site locations (paid for by Heritage Documentation Programs) but will be duty stationed in the HDP offices in Washington, D.C. Interns will work closely with HDP historical architects to generate measured drawings from existing 3-D survey data. The final drawings will be archived in the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection at the Library of Congress. Depending on project schedules, opportunities may be available to assist HDP staff in collecting survey data using terrestrial laser scanners, photogrammetry, and hand measuring.

The internships will begin in June 2024 and last for 12 weeks. During this period, the interns will learn to manipulate 3-D survey data and execute measured drawings in conformance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Architectural and Engineering Documentation. The internship term will be completed as a full-time position (40 hours per week) with work occurring primarily at the HDP office in Washington, DC.

A background security investigation may be required prior to the start date. All NCPE internships accrue 4 hours of PTO for every 80 hours worked.

Qualified NCPE interns who complete their internships may count their position towards earning a Public Land Corps (PLC) Non-Competitive Hiring Authority certificate.  Once earned, the PLC certificate may be used to apply for eligible Federal permanent, temporary, or term positions. Visit https://preservenet.org/ncpe-internships/ for details about this benefit. Successful completion of the internship does not guarantee Federal employment.