SHI - Culture & History Director

Description

• Supervise professional staff in the conduct of research programs and activities, and in language revitalization.
• Administer and manage grants, monitor technical progress and grant expenditures for individual projects, track project timelines, schedules and budgetary expenditures, manage peer review of technical reports and production of final reports, and prepare narrative and financial grant reports.
• Supervise and assist in the development of grant proposals and budgets.
• Prepare research reports, grant reports, articles for professional journals including SHI’s Box of Knowledge series, and publicity materials.
• Direct and supervise complex anthropological and ethnographic documentation projects involving documentary research, ethnographic fieldwork, and semi-structured and oral history interviewing on a wide variety of topics involving contemporary peoples and communities, their recent past, and their traditions.
• Collect subject-matter information, texts, photographs, and other materials in the areas of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian culture, history, art, and science; and assist in developing educational materials to support exhibits.
• Collaborate with SHI team members and external partners to integrate research and curriculum development.
• Lead, oversee, and direct research projects integrating Indigenous knowledge and using rigorous social scientific research approaches and techniques;

Requirements

• Knowledge of cultural resource preservation laws, regulations and strategies.
• 5 years of professional work
• Demonstrated effective verbal, writing, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Ph.D. in Anthropology or related field
• Direct experience managing budgets.
• Extensive knowledge of Northwest Coast Cultures.
• Demonstrated proficiency in cultural resource preservations laws and practices including, but not limited to, the National Historic Preservation Act and the Native Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and activities.
• Ability to design and conduct cultural anthropological research including field research as demonstrated by the production of project-related papers and reports
• Knowledge of ethnohistorical, ethnographic and Indigenous knowledge research methods and field data collection and archival procedures including as related to confidentiality concerns.
• Expertise in Northwest Coast Culture

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance