Senior Archaeologist

Provide cultural resource management services for KLJ projects in a timely, accurate, and cost-effective manner.

Essential Functions

• Manage projects or tasks for other projects worth a minimum of $100,000 in fees
• Responsible for contracts, scope of services, schedules and budgets
• Review for Quality Assurance and Quality Control and ensure compliance with KLJ quality standards
• Participate in and facilitate meetings with stakeholders and clients
• Effectively deal with difficult situations and confrontation both internally and externally
• Utilize effective written and oral communication

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple project teams
• Provide direction, review, and support to the group by leading projects; assuring proper practices and techniques
• Confer with project team members and clients to lead, prepare, and participate in project proposals and interviews
• Assist with and coordinate client management activities
• May have supervisory responsibilities for group members and support staff including hiring, promoting, terminations, performance reviews, and training

Qualifications

• A Master’s degree in anthropology, archaeology, history or a related field and 8 or more years of experience is required
• An RPA is required
• Secretary of the Interior qualified
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to operate motorized vehicles

Preferred

• Regional experience is highly desired
• GIS background is preferred
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite are highly desired
• Supervisory and project management experience is preferred

Competencies

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the principles, concepts, and methodology needed to perform, or direct duties generally acquired and developed through formal education and industry certification, extensive training, and relevant experience.
• Work involves varied duties that encompass a broad range of activities by applying knowledge and experience to resolve known problems with unknown solutions.

Skills:

• Guidelines exist, however require judgment in selecting the most appropriate option to a given situation. May require some interpretation because of varying situations.

Abilities:

• Manage individuals encompassing activities of diversified functions.
• Activities consist of duties that produce decisions and provide control over the outcome of decisions.
• Ability to motivate, persuade, or convince others and change own behavior.

Relationships

The Archaeologist IV receives guidance and direction supervision from the workgroup manager, Service Sector Leader (SSL), or the Technical Area Leader (TAL). Supervisory responsibilities include group and support staff members.

Hours and Travel

This position requires the individual work 40 or more hours per week with 40% of the time spent in the field and 60% in the office.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

The employee is regularly required to:

• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms
• Talk or hear and communicate clearly

The employee must:

• Be able to walk on uneven terrain up to ten miles per day
• Frequently lift and move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 75 pounds

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties

This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive or restrictive and other duties may be assigned. It is a description of the job as presently defined and is subject at any time to revision. This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, as needed.