Senior Principal, Cultural Resources

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Your Opportunity
This is a career opportunity for a Senior Principal Cultural Resources Manager for a leading environmental consulting firm providing NEPA/CEQA analyses, technical studies, and project permitting to a wide variety of private and federal, state, and local government clients in the western U.S. The individual will lead cultural resources projects, programs and selected business development opportunities and provide successful and independent management of archaeological and historical resources projects, including direction of large technical and field studies and assembly, supervision, and direction of an established cultural resources team.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Technical resource lead and/or principal investigator for complex, high profile cultural resource investigations.
• Lead and collaborate on growing our cultural resources practice across the western US.
• Mentor and supervise technical and operations resources for staff and senior project managers across the West.
• Responsible for program management and financial management for key client programs, including multidisciplinary management.
• Ensuring the delivery of high-quality technical products through implementation and of quality review and independent review protocols.
• Lead business development and marketing by building new client relationships and maintaining existing ones.
• Lead technical elements of proposal development, including scope, budget, and schedule to ensure complete satisfaction.
• Maintain a high professional profile externally through membership in professional organizations, continually increasing client contact base.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Professional writing, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Highly developed business development and client management skills.
• Valid driver's license and good driving record required.
• Experience leading and conducting Phase I and II Cultural Resource Surveys in California and Nevada.
• Proven experience of Determinations of Eligibility for National Register of Historic Places and California Register of Historical Resources.
• Impact Assessment of Project Alternatives on Cultural Resources.
• Section 106 and 110 (NHPA) Consultation.
• Memoranda of Agreement and Programmatic Agreements
• Data Recovery and Monitoring Plans
• Historic Property Treatment Plans
• Ethnographic Research
• Native American Consultation
• NAGPRA Consultation
• Registered Professional Archaeologist or Historian

Education and Experience
MA/MS in cultural resources or archaeology, or history preferred. An emphasis on California cultural resources preferred. Demonstrated expertise in the application and interpretation of California and federal laws and regulations for large and complex projects.

Minimum 10 years supervisory, management, and team-oriented experience in consulting acquired over 15+ years of progressively responsible cultural resources positions. Proven project management and business development experience.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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