Program Specialist II (Archaeology Laboratory & Collections Manager)

Posting number: 08712

Department: Planning and Zoning

Division: Cultural Resources

Job classification: Program Specialist II

Posting type: Open

Categories: Planning and Development

Summary

This posting will be used to fill a Full Time, Permanent, Program Specialist II (Archaeology Laboratory & Collections Manager) 
within the Department of Planning and Zoning for Anne Arundel County Government.   This position is within the Cultural Resources Section and reports to the Preservation Stewardship Program Manager.

This is a program management support position in the field of cultural resources management, planning, and program management, requiring knowledge of a range of program issues to perform a variety of assignments.. The position is based at the County Archaeology Laboratory in Londontown and the collections warehouse in Annapolis, but duties will require remote and off-site work locations within the County. The position includes requirements for administrative management, community engagement, collections management, and research programming.

The Preservation Stewardship Program was established to promote, facilitate, and enable the preservation, discovery, and stewardship of public and privately-owned cultural resources, historic structures, and archaeological sites in Anne Arundel County. The program is also responsible for the management of the County’s official repository of curated archaeological collections within the County. This is a soundly humanities-based program that seeks to raise awareness and appreciation of local heritage.

Since its inception, the Program has undertaken numerous projects and extensive public programming related to local history, archaeology, heritage and preservation. The Program also supports academic development of humanities scholars, through its student internship program in local history and archaeology. As part of the Anne Arundel County Cultural Resources Section, the Program undertakes a wide range of programming initiatives including inter-agency workshops, weekly volunteer laboratory days, as well as traveling archaeology exhibits which it brings to local history and archaeology events to engage the public about their local heritage. Program team members regularly hold hands-on fieldwork experiences for the public, workshops, lecture series, and host several school programs annually including field trips for local school students where they can learn about archaeology by participating alongside professional archaeologists and heritage professionals on an active archaeological site and handling real artifacts. 

NATURE AND VARIETY OF WORK

The successful candidate will have an opportunity todirect the processing, analysis and curation of artifacts within the County repository and facilitate public engagement to promote the stewardship of the archaeological and historic resources in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
In general, the occupational field of program management work involves directing or carrying out assignments in one or more programs that are directly related to the department's/agency's mission of providing services to County residents. This field of work is distinguished from management-support functions such as personnel, budgeting or other administrative-type tasks which are designed to facilitate the activities of other employees providing direct services. Most contacts are with employees in the same or different departments and agencies of the County government, State and Federal agencies, and non-profit and private sector organizations. The purpose of the contacts, which normally are of a cooperative nature, but can be difficult, with both parties working toward mutual goals in planning, coordinating, or resolving program operating problems.

An employee in this class utilizes knowledge of program management support and program subject matter principles, techniques, functions, regulations and procedures in planning, organizing, directing and evaluating or carrying out assignments in one or more programs. The employee independently plans and carries out the aspects of program development, implementation and evaluation, and resolves problems and deviations in accordance with policies and program practices. The supervisor helps with unusual situations and reviews methods and approaches used in carrying out the employee's program support activities for conformance to policy and established requirements. The employee adapts standard program practices and procedures to meet situations or cases not fully covered by existing guidelines, and modification of current guides. Decisions involve conditions and factors that must be identified and analyzed to determine relationships with existing cri