Chronicle Heritage | Architectural Historian – Mid-Level – FEMA – National Remote or Hybrid

Chronicle Heritage is a solution-driven heritage consulting firm that prides itself on employing the best cultural resource management professionals in the industry. We place an emphasis on supporting our clients’ needs, fostering new technologies that advance our industry, and leveraging those advancements toward the management of non-renewable cultural resources. Chronicle Heritage prioritizes professional development within the framework of innovation and forward thinking to encourage career advancement and research development.

• Implement compliance with applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endagered Species Act (ESA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and Executive Orders 11988, 11990, and 12898; and others as they pertain to FEMA’s disaster programs.
• Scoping environmental/historic issues
• Reviewing grant applications for compliance
• Provide technical assistance to those involved with grant implementation, and
• ensuring compliance is sufficiently documented

• Ensuring that all recovery activities receive the appropriate level of environmental review as required by NEPA, NHPA, and associated statues, regulations, and Executive Orders
• Providing expert technical assistance; performing a full range of activities for environmental/historic preservation compliance and project management, performing data gathering, analysis, and inter-agency coordination
• Preparing (or assists in the preparation of environmental and historic preservation compliance documents from simple to particularly complex and politically sensitive projects including resource evaluations, consultation letters, memorandums of agreement, categorical exclusions, and environmental assessments.
• Identifies, plans, coordinates, monitors, and completes project EHP compliance reviews of FEMA-funded (in part or whole) projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and other applicable EHP laws, implementing regulations, Presidential Executive Orders (EOs), other Federal state requirements, and relevant DHS/FEMA policies.
  • Coordinates and completes work with FEMA EHP and project staff and program managers, EHP Team Leads, Applicants, state agencies, and other Federal agencies, and contractors.
  • Provides EHP technical assistance for the State and Applicants for project EHP reviews, planning, design, regulatory consultations, and compliance.

• Master’s degree in history, art history, historic preservation, or related field
• Meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for architectural history
• 5+ years of professional experience as an Architectural Historian
• 5+ years of experience conducting historical research, completing historical resource surveys and assessments and evaluating the historic and architectural signification of properties under NRHP
• Knowledge of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation ActExperience completing environmental compliance reviews for state and federal agencies
• Experience with all phases or architectural history investigations (e.g., survey, documentation, and assessments)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project).

• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to conduct pedestrian surveys, walking in rough terrain and challenging weather
• Ability to disseminate technical information and maintain knowledge of government-wide programs and initiatives associated with the implementation of historic preservation laws
• Ability to make recommendations regarding historic preservation and compliance issues
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and oversee field personnel

• Regular fieldwork or on-site inspections are required, which necessitates ability to frequently travel/drive a vehicle (sight, hearing, and manual manipulation of driving mechanisms), cognitive ability to plan travel, use maps or GPS navigation systems.
• May require ambulation and movement to enable walking or hiking 10+ miles per day on rough and/or hazardous terrain and occasional climbing, crouching, kneeling, balancing on rough terrain. Fieldwork may involve exposure to conditions of rain, sun, heat, wind, dust, etc., with exposure to animals, plants, wet conditions, biting insects, poison oak, etc. May require use of respiratory equipment.
• Some fieldwork may require carrying loads up to 25 pounds or work around heavy construction equipment.
• Vision is required to observe environmental phenomena and record and translate observations into text (either keyboard entry on a computer or dictation and audio translation of recording to Standard English scientific text).
• Mental requirements include ability to organize one’s own work or that of crew members; ability to recognize and observe scientific data and analyze data as well as ability to perform calculations. Must also be able to observe social and professional interactions and respond appropriately.
• Some work is performed primarily in an indoor environment and requires sustained sitting and use of fingers, hands, and arms to operate a computer and perform keyboard entry of data or document preparation (or equivalent with accommodation). Must also be able to operation standard office equipment (phone, copy machine, FAX machine, etc.)

Pay Range: $28 – $32 per hour