Description:
In this role, you will:
- Conduct site inspections and ensuring that any proposed project actions comply with environmental,
floodplain, and historic preservation laws, regulations, and executive orders
- Conduct environmental assessments and environmental impact statements
- Review and analyze professional architectural/engineering reports and designs or as-built plans
- Thoroughly document analyses in writing
- Develop scopes of work, including related code and standard requirements
- Validate applicant-provided scopes of work, including related code and standard requirements
- Develop and review cost estimates
- Advise FEMA staff on the technical validity of claims presented under FEMA’s arbitration process
- Should arbitration hearings occur, you will testify as an expert witness on FEMA’s behalf
Qualifications:
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- A Bachelor's Degree in architecture plus one of the following:
(1) At least one year of graduate study in architectural preservation, American architectural history, preservation planning, or closely related field; or
(2) At least one year of full-time professional experience on historic preservation projects. Such graduate study or experience shall include detailed investigations of historic structures, preparation of historic structures research reports, and preparation of plans and specification for preservation projects
- 5 years of experience in related field
- Archiect Registration Examination (ARE) and/or National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
- 1-2 years of experience in Historic Architecture related site inspections of Large Commercial Construction infrastructures
- 1-2 years of experience in Historic Architecture related site inspections in any of the following eligible types of work:
- Restoration of Roads, Bridges, Water control Facilities, Buildings, Equipment, Utilities, Debris Removal, Schools, Churches, Parks, and recreation centers
- The ability to obtain and maintain a FEMA Public Trust
- A United States Citizenship
- The ability to maintain FEMA specific trainings
- Microsoft Office skills
- The ability to deploy to any location in zone 2 with a 24–48-hour notice after Task Order Award
- Zone 2 includes Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
- The ability to go on 6–12-month deployments at a minimum
- Experience and comfortability using a Smart Phone
- The ability to work independently, in a team environment and under stressful conditions with tight deadlines