Job Type: Student / postdoc
Salary Details: $800/week
Deadline: Oct 08, 2021
See full details at https://www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-state-tribal-local-plans–grants-disaster-fellowship-washington-district-of-columbia/1536074730
Summary: American Conservation Experience, a nonprofit Conservation Corps, in partnership with the National Park Service, is seeking ONE State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Disaster Fellow to primarily assist in providing technical support for the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund and Cultural Resources disaster grant programs. These grant programs currently operate in the Caribbean and Gulf States but can be expanded to other locations at any time by Congress.
For more information about ACE, please visit: www.usaconservation.org.
Start Date: Fall 2021
Duration: 52 weeks
Location: The State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division is in Washington, DC. May be flexible for remote work, subject to mutual agreement.
For more information about the State, Tribal, Local Plans & Grants Division, please visit: www.nps.gov/stlpg
Living Allowance: The ACE Fellow is expected to contribute 40 hours/week and will receive a living allowance of $800/week, dispersed bi-weekly.
Housing: Housing is the responsibility of the ACE Fellow and not provided by ACE or the National Park Service. A housing reimbursement of $250/month is available to partially offset housing costs for Fellows residing in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Position Description:
The ACE Fellow’s responsibilities will include:
- Assisting the team lead and program staff with integrating project information and other documentation related to disaster recovery grant-assisted work into data sets and case studies. Projects include undertakings by State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs) and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices (THPOs) for 2 current Hurricane grant programs, which involve hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and hurricanes Florence, Michael, and Typhoon Yutu. These projects are generally intended as recovery efforts with subgrants made to private property owners, local governments, and nonprofit organizations. Projects will typically entail a variety of assigned activities, such as information compilation, retrieval and organization, data entry, and maintenance of information management systems.
- Reviewing and cataloging products from grantees to develop case studies for best practices related to disaster recovery, resilience, and preparedness as it relates to historic preservation that involves private property owners, local, tribal and state governments, as well as cross-jurisdictional partnerships.
- Developing working relationships with preservation partners at the State, Tribal and local levels. Duties will involve exposure to historic preservation grants management, disaster recovery, planning, and publication development, and understanding of the Federal Preservation Program.
- Assisting with the development of disaster training for Certified Local Governments and cooperating with national nonprofit partners in developing both training as well as deployment of the CR Surveyor web application. This is a web application built on an ESRI platform for field-based architectural and archeological survey at the reconnaissance level in both pre- and post-disaster modes.
- Assisting staff to implement and maintain existing and future information management systems to support the mission of the Division.
- Assisting staff to update databases and spreadsheets, as directed, to provide detailed information for easier compiling, summarizing, analysis or reports; disseminating information to the appropriate personnel; and performing duties in compliance with applicable guidelines and standard operating procedures.
The ACE Fellow will have the opportunity to gain knowledge of cultural resource regulations, laws, and requirements sufficient to be able to address the issues of Federal grant programs and the Federal disaster response framework. This will include Section 106, Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, and learning about tribal and local consultation processes. The position offers the opportunity to work with a variety of professional and nonprofessional persons to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management officials and grant recipients. The ACE Fellow may propose novel ways of analyzing and gathering existing data to create visual representations of the division’s grant programs and other work suitable for use on the web or print collateral materials. The Fellow will work with other ACE Fellows in the division to refine, enhance, and deploy the CR Surveyor.
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