CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE SPECIALIST 2 - OPTION A: NDOT
- Department of Transportation
APPROXIMATE ANNUAL SALARY -
$45,810.72 to
$67,713.84
PAY GRADE: 33
The salary range indicated in this announcement is based on the Employee/Employer retirement compensation schedule. An employer-only option is available at a reduced salary range. Generally, salaries start at the lowest level of a step 1 and increase with each year of service to the highest level of a step 10.
For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.
JOB INFORMATION
Work Type: Permanent, full time vacancies as they may occur
in this geographical location.
This class series encompasses positions that perform a broad range of professional and technical work involving but not limited to: cultural/natural resource assessment, programming, funding, evaluation, survey, inventory, preservation, research, education, planning, mitigation and recovery.
This position is located within the Environmental Services Division, Carson City. Incumbent will perform and supervise Architectural History cultural resource field surveys and write comprehensive cultural resources research reports involving large and complex projects ensuring compliance with federal and state cultural resource guidelines and laws while working with other Native American Consultants and Archaeologists that meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines. Incumbent applies a variety of professional and advanced technical knowledge, skills, methods, and practices in performing work for compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Section 106 and other related federal regulations with historic preservation law. The incumbent will also conduct research and reference work, collect, arrange, and record cultural resources information, perform public outreach, make formal presentations, and prepare grant applications; conducts research and reference work; records cultural resource information; performs limited public outreach, and make formal presentations. The incumbent will perform consultation with a variety of State, Federal and Tribal parties also to include interested parties. Women and under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. Nevada Department of Transportation is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action in recruitment of its employees and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information (GINA), or gender identity and expression. *** THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. QUALIFIED APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ***
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)
Master's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in history, architectural history, historical preservation, art history, archaeology, anthropology or a closely related field and one year of experience performing professional archaeological work in research, field studies work which involved archaeological program research planning, compliance, enforcement and technical support collection, cataloging, analysis and preservation of artifacts and other data; OR Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in history, architectural history, historical preservation, art history, archaeology, anthropology or a closely related field and two years of experience as described above; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience above the Bachelor's degree level; OR two years of experience as a Cultural/Natural Resource Specialist I in Nevada State service.
Special Notes
Applicants' professional qualifications must meet federal and State requirement to manage cultural/natural resource programs and/or to receive the Principal Investigator designation.
Special Requirements
Positions at the Cultural Natural Resource Specialist II and III levels in the Department of Transportation are required to hold Principle Investigator status at the time of appointment.
Additional Position Criteria
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This position requires applicants hold Principle Investigator status.
The Examination
Application Evaluation Exam
The exam will consist of an application evaluation. It is essential that applications include detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. The most qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview. The hiring agency may require specific skills related testing as part of the interviewing process.
The following additional questions are part of this Recruitment
1) Please describe your experience with Nevada, U.S. culture, history and prehistory with emphasis on the Great Basin.
2) Please describe your experience with the National Preservation Act and comprehensive Section 106 reporting including that from transportation, to meet Federal and State requirements.
3) Please describe your experience conducting Architectural History surveys.
4) Please describe your experience conducting research and writing historic context.
5) Please describe your Geographic Information System experience.
6) Are you Secretary of the Interior qualified for Architectural History, please explain?
7) Are you Secretary of the Interior qualified for Archaeology? Please explain.
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Direct Inquiries or Correspondence to:
Division of Human Resource Management Northern Nevada 515 East Musser Street, First Floor Carson City, Nevada 89701-4204
TDD for the Hearing Impaired (800) 326-6868
Division of Human Resource Management Southern Nevada 7251 Amigo St, Suite 120 Las Vegas, NV 89119
TDD for the Hearing Impaired (800) 326-6868
The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.