JOB SUMMARY: This position is located in Northeast Regional Office, in the Tribal & Cultural Affairs Division. This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of four years. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service. Open to the first 75 applicants or until 12/20/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration. MAJOR DUTIES: The Cultural Anthropologist will perform the following tasks in support of Great American Outdoors Act projects: Provide technical expertise during tribal Consultation on infrastructure projects at the Park level as required under E.O. 13175 to include facilitating review of planning, pre-design, compliance, and construction stages construction scopes and documents by Tribal Nations before final project approval to keep projects on track for completion. Develop Tribal monitoring scopes and hours (IGCEs) with Tribal Nations as part of our NHPA responsibilities, and in advance notice of disturbance under ARPA, Sec. 7., to support solicitation and source selection, serve as CORs on tribal monitoring contracts, provide contract oversight. Development through consultation with Tribal Nations an Inadvertent Discovery Plan for planned activities that may disturb NAGPRA related materials under NAGPRA, Sec. 3. To be included in all construction documents that allow the A&E firm to proceed. Provide quality control, review project deliverables, assist with coordination of results with park, planners, SHPO and tribes, and provide assistance with curation and data management responsibilities to ensure project compliance with relevant data/curation laws and policies related to cultural resources. Support other Tribal outreach and coordination, assist with securing tribal monitors for compliance and construction monitoring, and navigating contracting/source selection of tribal monitoring services. Provide GIS resource data access and data management services for planning and compliance purposes Respond to park, Regional, and DSC requests for technical assistance and provide ad-hoc technical expertise and support for unanticipated LRF project cultural resource needs related to cultural anthropology. IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.
