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 🔗Historic Landscape Inventory Intern – 800 hours

  • Internship
  • NCPE Internship
  • Longmire, WA
  • $18.50 USD / Hour
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: Mount Rainier National Park - Cultural Resources Management and Maintenance Division, Project Shop
  • Job Reference #: 4143a
  • Job Summary: Mount Rainier National Park is seeking 2 candidates who are landscape and/or building architecture historians or cultural historians to assist in the surveying and documentation of historic Mission 66 and Rustic style landscape features.
  • Job Qualifications:
    • Experience with or working knowledge of measuring tools and conventions is very desirable
    • Working knowledge of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Properties and National Register of Historic Places is a plus
    • Possess strong research and concise writing skills
    • Ability to convey pertinent information with minimal photographs
    • Experience with performing building condition assessments is desirable
    • Ability to work collaboratively within a team of cultural resource and preservation professionals
    • Experience with online databases such as the Cultural Resource Inventory System
    • Working knowledge of rustic landscape architecture a plus.
    • Ability to work outside for extended periods of time
    • Enrolled in, or recently graduated from, an undergraduate or graduate academic program with a focus on architecture, historic preservation, architectural history, or other related design field
  • How to Apply:

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  • Job benefits: Paid Time Off (PTO), Free Housing
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: Long periods of standing and hiking outdoors in all weather conditions, walking over rough or uneven rocky surfaces such as narrow road prisms, undulating trails, and steep hillsides. Sedentary indoor computer database work. Recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching. Able to lift moderately heavy items (like field backpacks, overnight camping gear). Must be able to operate a government motor vehicle as part of official duties; a valid driver's license is required. 
  • Application Email: waso_cr-intern@nps.gov

Website National Park Service/NCPE Internship Program

Established in 1899 Mount Rainier National Park is 235,625 acres (97% is designated Wilderness). The wilderness area includes Mount Rainier (14,410'), an active volcano encased in over 35 square miles of snow and ice. The majority of the park’s developed areas was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1997 as a showcase for the "NPS Rustic" style architecture and landscape architecture of the 1920s and 1930s. This internship reports to the park landscape architect and is part of the Project Shop within the Maintenance Division. The Maintenance Division consists of approximately 75 permanent employees and 200 summer seasonal employees. The Project Shop currently consists of a historical landscape architect and a project manager. This season it will also include four NCPE interns.

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.

Mount Rainier National Park is seeking two 800-hour interns who are landscape and/or building architecture historians or cultural historians to assist in surveying and documenting historic Mission 66 and Rustic style landscape features throughout the park. The interns will work closely together and with the cultural resources team and the park’s historical landscape architect to update cultural landscape condition assessments in the National Park Service (NPS) Cultural Resource Inventory System (CRIS) database. This work will consist of documenting and researching over a dozen collections of landscape features, including historic stone walls, buildings, road prisms, and trails. Documentation methods include photography, researching historical information of landscape features, and GIS collection on tablets. The interns will also be responsible for compiling this information into CRIS, which includes writing descriptions of the landscape features, providing condition assessments, and developing recommendations for repairs and maintenance. If time allows the intern may also be asked to verify and update GIS systems and databases.

Most of the historic properties that will be assessed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and contribute to the park’s National Historic Landmark District and therefore require the preservation of their character-defining features. These assessments will identify the character-defining features that require direct and indirect preservation work and will inform future maintenance projects and decision-making. This work supports NPS responsibilities under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) to preserve cultural resources. The interns will be based out of and living in the Longmire Historic District within walking distance of the Project Shop offices. Housing will be provided. Work will begin in June 2025 and end in November 2025.

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.