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🔗Built Environment Unit (BEU) Manager-WMS2
Website Washington State
The cultural and historic resources of a community tell the story of its past, a past that makes any single community distinct from all other places. From lumber mills to schools, sacred landscapes to archaeological sites, rustic cabins to office towers, our historic and cultural resources provide everyone with a tangible link to persons and events that have shaped our communities and ourselves. Preserving these physical reminders of our past creates a sense of place, the result being an environment that instills civic pride and community spirit. By preserving significant cultural and historic resources, we are able to learn from past achievements (as well as mistakes) in order to improve, enrich, and even enliven, the Washington state that is passed to future generations.
What you will be doing:
As the Built Environment Unit (BEU) Manager, you will supervise the built environment regulatory staff and outreach staff. This includes the regulatory program as it pertains to built environment projects under federal, state, and local laws, such as Section 106, Executive Order 21-02, and the State Environmental Policy Act. You will also manage staff that run several programs mandated by the National Park Service grant DAHP receives, such as the Certified Local Government program, Historic Preservation Tax Incentive program, and the National Register of Historic places nomination process for Washington State.
You will have the responsibility for selection and technical oversight of all pass-through funding for the purposes of rehabilitating historic structures when such funding is made available by Congressional or State legislative appropriations, and will oversee DAHP’s Underrepresented Communities’ Grants awarded by the National Park Service.
You will be considered the agency’s subject matter expert in buildings and structures and will be responsible for making significant recommendations using your expertise in applying standards to project reviews. You will need to be conversant in DAHP’s business language, as you will oversee many key communications between the agency and its statewide, national, local, and public stakeholders. This position requires extensive experience, management, and oversight of applicable state and federal regulatory mandates. This position also provides advanced consultative technical business information to other agencies, governments, or private entities. You’ll provide expertise and counsel to the Director/SHPO, the Governor’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, DAHP staff, public agencies, the Governor’s office, the Attorney General’s office, and members of the public regarding built environment issues.
You are also responsible for developing and implementing the state historic preservation plan, a SHPO responsibility that is mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act. In addition, you will develop and teach various training courses including Section 106, state laws, implementing regulations, cultural resources training, and present lectures on built environment topics as requested.