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Archeologist
A scientist professionally trained to conduct scientific studies, interpretation, and reconstruction of past human cultures from an anthropological perspective based on the investigation of the surviving physical evidence of human activity and the reconstruction of related past environments. Historical archeologist use historic documents as additional sources of information.
Archeologist Technician
Architectural Conservator
A specialist in the scientific analysis of historic materials.
Archives Specialist
Archives Technician
Archivist
A professional responsible for managing and providing access to archival and manuscript collections. Archival collections are an accumulation of manuscript collections. Archival collection are an accumulation manuscript, archival documents, or papers having a shared origin or provenance, or having been assembled around a common tropic, format of record, or association; or the non-current records of an organization or institution preserved for their historic value.
Conservator
A person trained in the theoretical and practical aspects of preventive conservation and in performing treatments to prolong the lives of museum objects. Most conservators specialize classes of objects (e.g., painting, furniture, books, paper, textiles, metals, ceramics and glass, architecture, ethnographic and archeological objects, photographs).
Cultural Resources Program Manager
The occupational series that would be used to fill the Cultural Resources Program Manager job are in the Office of Personnel Management's group coverage qualification standards for professional and scientific positions. These series have a positive education requirement that is met by a degree in the appropriate field or a combination of education and experience. The Resources Careers'Cultural Resources Program Manager is a interdisciplinary benchmark position description that can be filled by any one of the following series depending on the specific needs of the park or office: historian, cultural anthropologist, archeologist, historical landscape architect, historical architect, or museum curator. The "interdisciplinary" designation calls for a working knowledge characteristic of two or more professional series.
Curator
A person professionally responsible for the management, preservation, and use of museum objects/specimens. Collection management responsibilities include acquisition and disposal, documentation and cataloging, preventive conservation, storage, access, interpretation and exhibition, and research and publication. Often the curator is a discipline or material culture specialist (e.g., archeology, biology, history, fine arts, Civil War weapons).
Ethnographer
A professional who studies the human condition, including cultural, biological, and physical adaptations over time and in various natural and social environments. These professionals focus on the life ways of contemporary peoples (e.g., economics, religion, and social behavior), but also deal with the past.
Facility Manager/Chief of Maintenance
Facility managers are responsible for annual and long-range planning and for the maintenance of the cultural and natural resources of parks, including historic and modern structures, utilities, archeological sites, roads, trails, and diverse landscapes. This position oversees a diversity of tasks and skills made more complex by the dispersion of the work force throughout the park; the flexible nature of assignments which vary as a result of seasonal needs, emergency responses, and changes in priorities; the need for specialized cultural and natural resource knowledge; and the ability to coordinate operations under logistically complex and sometimes isolated conditions.
Historian
A specialist with advanced training in the research, interpretation, and writing of history. These professionals study the past through written records, oral histories, and material culture. Evidence form these is compared, judged for veracity, placed in chronological or topical sequence, and interpretation in light of preceding contemporary, and subsequent events.
Historical Architect
A specialist in the science and art of architecture with specialized advanced training in the principles, theories, concepts, methods, and techniques of preserving prehistoric and historic structures.
Historical Landscape Architect
A specialist in the science and art of landscape architecture with advanced training in the principles, theories, concepts, methods, and techniques of preserving cultural landscape.
Inegrated Resources Program Manager
Landscape Preservation Specialist
Museum Registrar
Museum Specialist
Museum Technician
Preservation Horticulturist
An employee who preserves a landscape's physical attributes, biotic systems and use when that use contributes to its historic significance.
Superintendent/Manager
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