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Serco is Hiring Architectural Historians to support of the Federal Emergency Management AgencyPublic Assistance recovery initiatives in Zone 2 across the Midwest. The Architectural Historians will consist of professional and non-professional personnel to provide support to state, tribal, territorial local governments, and some private non-profits.Serco strives to providesupport quickly and efficiently to FEMA's mission by helping those effected by man-made and natural disasters $60k-82k yearly est.Easy Apply26d agoUrban & Regional Planner
* As directed, manages the complex organizational interactions that may evolve from the participation of several Bechtel industry groups (such as energy, mining and minerals, or manufacturing and technology) on a project * Collaborates with department managers and counterparts in other Bechtel entities and services The role features a unique opportunity to shape and implement Bechtel's approach to connected infrastructure strategies that will change the way we live and work. Urban and Regional Planner would be responsible for both performing planning work and producing studies, planning programs, and proposals. Core to Bechtel are our values-ethics, safety, quality, people, culture, relationships, innovation and sustainability, and our covenants-integrity, respect, collaboration, trust, and delivery. $61k-78k yearly est.5d agoActive Transportation Planner (Transportation Planner II)
This position will also foster collaborative working relationships with local and regional stakeholders to advance bicycle and pedestrian transportation planning and implementation of projects in Fairfax County. Serving as Active Transportation Planner, this position is primarily responsible for supporting the development, design, review and management of a diverse range of active transportation projects, plans, feasibility studies and programs, and addressing the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists, bikeshare users, scooter riders, transit riders, and people with disabilities. For more information on the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, please click here . (Click on the aforementioned link to learn how Fairfax County interprets equivalencies for "Any combination, experience, and training equivalent to") The position may be underfilled as a Transportation Planner I (Grade S-22); the underfill requirements are stated below in the Employment Standards section. Since 1977, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) has served the Fairfax County community by enhancing mobility, safety, and the quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors through planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, and sustaining a multimodal transportation system. $65.7k-109.6k yearly4d agoUrban Planner/Designer (10050, Grade 28) Term Contract
The Montgomery County Planning Department, one of the nation's premier planning agencies parts of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), seeks an experienced and motivated Urban Planner/Designer to serve as a project manager for designated urban and suburban projects, special studies, or master planning initiatives in the director's office.This is a contract position supporting the Assistant to the Deputy Director, working on impactful projects such as updating the county's Public Benefits Points System, creating a strategic plan to guide the department's placemaking activities, and helping with the design review of various development projects throughout the county. The selected candidate will be exposed to a range of professional experiences, from long range policy planning to on-the ground implementation and tasked to organize and lead community engagement efforts and design workshops. Excellent project management skills are required. The desired candidate should have a solid grasp of Smart Growth planning principles and a strong understanding of municipal planning processes.The successful candidate must apply their knowledge of planning standards, codes, and plans to develop alternatives to resolve planning challenges. In this position, you will initiate and execute the various stages of planning studies, help create urban design guidelines, author drafts for staff reports and presentations, coordinate multidisciplinary project teams, train, and mentor interns, and effectively communicate with planning colleagues, community members, development professionals, and planning board members. Candidates must demonstrate strong verbal and written communications skills and be able to put together memos, reports, presentations, and graphics using Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite products. Experience with community engagement is desired. The selected candidate will be expected to work between 32-37 hours per week in a hybrid on-site and telework format. We at Montgomery Planning focus our skills and talents to bring high-quality design in both form and function to all areas, from central business districts to rural villages and have pioneered programs in agricultural preservation, inclusionary housing, and transit-oriented development. To learn more, visit our website at www.montgomeryplanning.org! We value the safety of our staff and our community. To that end, we have required all our employees to be vaccinated (with limited exemptions for religious and medical reasons) while following all COVID-19 protocols. * Lead the preparation of land use and urban design studies and initiatives, particularly those that relate to incentive zoning, design excellence, and placemaking * Conduct equitable civic engagement on significant projects with county-wide land use and urban design impacts * Analyze development applications (such as sketch plans and site plans), and rezoning applications for excellence in design of buildings, streets, and open spaces * Conduct special studies of complex planning problems * Provide recommendations that will advance racial equity and social justice as well as help integrate design and placemaking considerations into the planning and development process * Interpret and implement county planning policy, development plans, codes and regulations * Make presentations as a team member to the Planning Board, County Council, and community groups. Minimum Qualifications * Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Geography, Architecture, Parks and Recreation, Transportation, Urban Design, Engineering, Environmental Science, Public Policy, Economics or any related field. * Four (4) years of progressively responsible professional level planning experience related to specific area of assignment such as transportation planning, environmental planning or urban planning. * An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted, which together total eight (8) years. * Valid driver's license (depending on area of assignment) in accordance with both State and Commission rules and regulations. Driver's license must be unencumbered by restrictions, revocations, suspensions, or points that could limit the employee's ability to drive Commission vehicles or perform driving duties required by the position of assignment. Supplemental Information Classification Specification - Planner III Term Contract (2244) In addition to the minimum qualifications listed above, a Master's degree in planning, urban design, architecture, parks, engineering, environmental science, or equivalent disciplines related to job function and experience with community engagement, GIS, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite and SketchUp software will be helpful. About the Montgomery County Planning Department: M-NCPPC offers excellent benefits and competitive salaries. We are conveniently located in downtown Wheaton, MD and easily accessible to Wheaton Metro Station and several bus lines. A commuter stipend is available. Learn about our LEED Platinum-rated headquarters building here! The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate a workplace culture of diversity, equity and inclusion without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, gender identity, or any other non-merit factor. We will do what we can to provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at 301-495-4525 to request accommodation. $46k-63k yearly est.19d agoHistorian
Responsibilities The major duties of the Historian position include, but are not limited to, the following: Conducts historical research using oral history interviews, documentary sources, and principles of public history, and developing methods for future refinement of protocols. You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards. $66k-102k yearly est.9d agoHistorian (Research and Archival Project)
in Forensics, Biometrics and Identity Intelligence, is currently looking for a Historian to support the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), at the DPAA lab in Hawaii, by conducting historical research and writing, as well as assisting with related activities for DPAA's Asia Pacific Directorate. $41k-93k yearly est.1d agoUrban Planner II
The project planner will serve on multi-disciplinary planning projects for mainly military installations and federal agencies. As part of the project team, the planner will develop creative and innovation solutions to address the Federal Government's issues. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. The Federal Planning Group of AECOM is actively seeking a creative, highly talented planner for immediate employment in the Arlington, VA office. **AECOM's Buildings + Places** practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture. $59k-79k yearly est.50d agoSupervisory Historian
* Plans and administers historical programs for the Office of The Historian and provides the Deputy Director and the Historian with critical historical advice, information, analysis, and perspective dealing with complex series of current policies. * Incumbent directly evaluates four Supervisory Historian GS-170-14 team leads, a non-supervisory historian (education coordinator), and serves as the supervisory reviewing official and second level manager for at least 20 permanent staff Historians. This position is located in the Office of the Historian (OH), at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI). * Washington 1 vacancy $155.7k-183.5k yearly8d agoExecutive Specialist- Division of Board Members
Executive Specialist- Division of Board Members - 23580 $51k-79k yearly est.12d agoSupervisory Historian
The incumbent manages and directs programs that provide historical subject matter expertise to Department officials through timely and accurate presentation of historical research that is relevant and responsive to current foreign policy priorities, oral history initiatives, and integrating historical perspective and background into FSI training and education programs and course content. Incumbent directly evaluates four Supervisory Historian GS-170-14 team leads, a non-supervisory historian (education coordinator), and serves as the supervisory reviewing official and second level manager for at least 20 permanent staff Historians. This position is located in the Office of the Historian (OH), at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI). Plans and administers historical programs for the Office of The Historian and provides the Deputy Director and the Historian with critical historical advice, information, analysis, and perspective dealing with complex series of current policies. Promotes comprehensive training and education programs on complex historical issues that significantly affect FSI and Department of State training operations and educational programs. $42k-94k yearly est.8d agoSenior Transportation Planner
_Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow._ If you want to join a company invested in you, your success, and the global community then join us as a **Senior Transportation Planner** . At Jacobs, we're putting our knowledge and imagination together to shape the next generation of innovative transportation solutions, especially in travel demand modeling, traffic microsimulation and Big Data. At Jacobs, we're partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. $81k-112k yearly est.14d agoHistorian
This position serves as the Historian specifically responsible for planning and conducting historical studies into the establishment, conservation, and interpretation of the agency's history, the American intellectual property system, and significant historical figures that influenced both. $94.2k-122.5k yearly13d agoMultimodal Transportation Planner (Transportation Planner II)
For more information on the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, please click here. Since 1977, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) has served the Fairfax County community by enhancing mobility, safety, and the quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors through planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, and sustaining a multimodal transportation system. (Click on the aforementioned link to learn how Fairfax County interprets equivalencies for "Any combination, experience, and training equivalent to") $65.7k-109.6k yearly4d agoPublic Historian
Purpose: The Thomas Jefferson Foundation seeks a Public Historian to join the staff of the Getting Word African American Oral History Project to interpret and preserve Black history in and beyond central Virginia. * Collaborate with colleagues across the Thomas Jefferson Foundation to plan, organize, and deliver programming related to African American life and culture at Monticello. The Public Historian will play a critical role in Monticello's work to interpret American history to guests online and virtually. $64k-97k yearly est.39d agoTransportation Modeler/Planner III (11989, Grade 28)
The Countywide Planning and Policy Division of the Montgomery County Planning Department ("Department") is seeking a Transportation Modeler/Planner III with a solid background in the application of: (1) long-range travel demand forecasting tools and (2) micro-simulation and/or "sketch level" transportation planning analysis tools and procedures, to join one of the nation's premier planning agencies. The Department is part of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC). $54k-74k yearly est.27d agoUrban Planner II
As the Planner II, here's the work you'll do: About Mason & Hanger, A Day & Zimmermann Company https://www.masonandhanger.com We're looking for a full-time, staff Planner II, to join our Mason & Hanger team located in Glen Allen, VA. $53k-72k yearly est.36d agoLand Planner
Timmons Group is currently seeking an experienced Land Planner to join our Richmond, VA office. $65k-87k yearly est.3d agoTransportation Planner V - Active Transportation Section Chief
FCDOT seeks a motivated, highly qualified, and public service-oriented Transportation Planner V to join the Capital Projects and Traffic Engineering Division. Identifying, responding to, and resolving public concerns related to active transportation facilities and services.Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, including municipalities and other agencies, to support the deployment and ongoing management of active transportation and micromobility accommodations at Fairfax County and partner facilities: * Ensuring Fairfax County policies and standards are met across projects. Since 1977, the Fairfax County Department of Transportation (FCDOT) has served the Fairfax County community by enhancing mobility, safety, and the quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors through planning, coordinating, funding, implementing, and sustaining a multimodal transportation system. $89k-148.3k yearly10d agoSenior Transportation Planner
Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. At Jacobs, we're partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you'll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other. If you want to join a company invested in you, your success, and the global community then join us as a Senior Transportation Planner. At Jacobs, we're putting our knowledge and imagination together to shape the next generation of innovative transportation solutions, especially in travel demand modeling, traffic microsimulation and Big Data. $81k-112k yearly est.15d agoTransportation Planner
**Overview** Our Richmond, VA office is seekinganexperienced andambitious transportation planner and transit enthusiastto join ourgrowing Planning team to supportthe firm'splanning practice in Virginiaand across the firm. Kimley-Horn is celebrating 15 years as one of FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For. $58k-75k yearly est.60d+ ago
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Based on recent jobs postings on Zippia, the average salary in the U.S. for a Historian is $57,376 per year or $28 per hour. The highest paying Historian jobs have a salary over $125,000 per year while the lowest paying Historian jobs pay $26,000 per year
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Chairperson
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Treasurer
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Leader
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Consultant
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