# Senior Heritage Resource Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Reno, NV
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Senior Heritage Resource Manager to join their Reno, NV office.

This role provides leadership within a sector of the organisation to ensure historian practices, subject matter, technical deliverables, and programs are delivered with a level of quality that meets or exceeds acceptable industry and company standards.

Responsibilities:

- Provide proactive and strategic leadership for the scientific discipline and function

- Support projects across California, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon

- Oversee the appropriate use of quality control standards and procedures for research and data collection

- Lead larger-scale historical preservation and architectural history projects

- Foster compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local laws, preservation guidelines, policies, and regulatory requirements

- Assist with the preparation of an annual update to business tactical action plans

- Support the overall long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of Historian work

- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings

- Ensure that scientific discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition are developed and continuously improved

- Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys

- Schedule scientific discipline meetings and provide updates and recommendations

- Serve as a lead representative/liaison to external entities

- Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics

- Interpret and summarise data to minimise or negate impacts to resources of historic, cultural, and scientific significance

- Develop a client base for providing high-level historian services

- Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff

- Remain current in the latest historian practices, methods, procedures, subject matter, and techniques

- Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Architectural History, History Preservation, or a related field

- 7-10 years of relevant post-education experience working as an historian, architectural historian, or similar role

- Strong working knowledge of relevant environmental laws, historical/architectural preservation regulations, compliance practices, record-keeping requirements

- Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills

- Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills

- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources

- Advanced proficiency with office automation and communication software, technology, and tools

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety

- Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's Degree

- Essential professional licensure/certification

- Experience in managing the review of documents and preparation of discipline-specific deliverables

## Skills

### Required
- Architectural History
- History Preservation
- Environmental Laws
- Historical Preservation Regulations
- Compliance Practices
- Leadership
- Interpersonal Communication
- Analytical Skills

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree
- Professional Licensure/Certification
- Document Review
- Discipline-Specific Deliverables

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