Historian Job Description
Historian
provides client-facing technical leadership in architectural history, business development, client management, and task order management.
Historian Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Gathers data and other information to be used in the preparation of reports of investigations
Maintains complete knowledge of the Hotel & its services (F&B promotions / Rooms / Special Guest programs and Spa facilities)
Hosts and welcomes all guests in a gracious and polite manner
Ensures that all the departments follow the information provided in traces
Ensures and emphasizes prompt solutions and reporting of any guest concerns and challenges during the shift
Update the information of VIP arrivals for the next day and prepare the weekly one
Assist with historic resources surveys and assessments, including site inspections, research, photography, historic context development, and evaluation under the National Register of Historic Places and/or California Register of Historic Resources criteria
Teaching assistant (lore asset gathering, class outline prep, PowerPoint creation)
Game familiarization (lore documentation, term harvest, foreign language archival)
Define, evaluate and select pilot applications for improved asset performance using advanced data analysis techniques
Historian Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Historian
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AECOM, CPR, NAI
Education for Historian
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the historian job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Doctoral Degree in History, Architectural History, Historic Preservation, Education, Public History, Graduate, Graduate Education, Architecture, Engineering, Department of Education
Skills for Historian
Desired skills for historian include:
History and architectural history of California
Historic preservation regulations
Cultural resources program management
Experience with NHPA Section 110
Section 4 Act
Especially CEQA and NHPA Section 106
Interest in historic preservation
Excel
NEPA
State and federal environmental regulatory framework
Desired experience for historian includes:
Knowledge of golf rules, players
Historical golf knowledge current
Demonstrated research and writing abilities, with the ability to present clear, precise, analytical, and authoritative arguments
Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (e.g., Architectural History, History, Cultural Resource Management, Historic Preservation, Preservation Planning)
Must meet Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards for Architectural History
The qualified applicant must meet, or exceed the Secretary of Interior (SOI) Qualifications for an Architectural Historian (36CFR§61)
Historian Examples
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Historian Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a historian. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for historian
- Conduct detailed historical research at libraries and archives and in various electronic databases and specialized industry resources
- Synthesize records obtained from primary and secondary source materials in a concise manner
- Contribute to written work product and presentation materials for clients, including reports, maps, graphs, and charts
- Employ commonly used software tools to organize, analyze, and present work findings
- Prepare time and expense reports, participate in practice group and office meetings, and handle general case administration duties
- Undertake other duties as assigned, including out-of-state research trips lasting up to two weeks per trip
- Be autonomous and support (you) to use initiative
- Be accountable and performance driven
- Work flexibly with a focus on outcomes, not hours
- Problem-solve collaboratively together
Qualifications for historian
- Previous experience with inventory and evaluation of historic resources, including preparation of California Department of Parks and Recreation documentation forms
- Working knowledge of the history and architectural history of the San Francisco Bay Area and/or the Sacramento Valley
- 5 years of previous experience with inventory and evaluation of historic resources, including preparation of California Department of Parks and Recreation documentation forms
- Associate degree of equivalent
- A minimum of 1-year experience working with IP
- Using the Society’s internal database, the Internet, and other available and applicable research resources to gather historical information
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Our company is looking for a historian. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for historian
- Performing background research of project areas
- Preparing reports and technical memoranda as needed
- Basic knowledge (review) of roadway/infrastructure plans, schematics and typical sections for historic resources survey purposes
- Administer user access - Control access to software systems
- Ensure systems' data is backed up / archived as required to ensure system can meet defined RTO and RPO
- Configuration management and recipe/method management
- Monitor systems configuration to ensure data integrity and 21CFR11 compliance
- Contribute to system validation and qualification efforts
- Ensure systems remain in compliant state - Process change control requests for system configurations, including requirement and/or design specifications and test plans
- Assist in integrating systems with other systems (ex
Qualifications for historian
- Writing summaries of findings to serve as a publicly available historical record of major cancer discoveries
- Coordinating an advisory group for the project
- Prioritizing which discoveries are worth investigating
- Investigating scientific literature
- Documenting the significant steps in the discovery and what the Society’s was
- Experience supporting or configuring PLC and/or DCS systems
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of historian. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for historian
- Train end-users on basic system functionality
- Provide end-user support including troubleshooting problems at the application level and basic hardware troubleshooting (includes working with vendors to resolve issues)
- Support/Lead written investigations of abnormal events, root cause analysis, corrective or preventative actions, and system review/assessments
- Interpreting construction work to ensure compliance with contract drawings and specifications FEMA Public Assistance policy and procedure
- Help the team with feature development by implementing classes
- Debugging issues and fixing software bugs
- Prepare VMs with various versions of products installed and configured
- Reproduce certian software issues documented in Tech Notes and create a Database of issues, test fixes and workarounds
- Run the automated and manual tests
- Help the team with test automation
Qualifications for historian
- DCS and/or PLC Systems Administration
- BA in History, Geography or related field
- Able to type 45 wpm with 90 percent accuracy
- 2 years’ work experience is a plus
- Experience with public records requests (FOIAs) to federal, state and local agencies
- Ability to analyze primary and secondary source historical records and understand their historical context
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a historian. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for historian
- Serve as the XVIII Airborne Corps Command Historian for all military history matters
- Assist in implementation of policies and plans for the direction of the XVIII Airborne Corps History Program
- Represent the XVIII Airborne Corps at historical exchanges and conferences
- Interact, as required with other staff members, unit commanders, and representatives of U.S. Army agencies
- Serve as liaison officer to the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH)
- Plan, research, and prepare studies, monographs, briefings and booklets that furnish detailed historical background perspectives for the XVIII Airborne Corps staff
- Produce authoritative, factually accurate and objective historical accounts of past U.S. Army operations and other activities
- Provide historical and instructional support for XVIII Airborne Corps professional development and education activities and training support for XVIII Airborne Corps Unit Historical Officer (UHO)
- Reproduce certain software issues documented in Tech Notes and create a Database of issues, test fixes and workarounds
- Preparing site plans, floor plans, and other measured drawings
Qualifications for historian
- Demonstrate an interest in collections management
- Customer service sensibility
- Ability to think analytically and critically
- Ability to plan, prioritize, set goals, work independently and work under pressure
- Positive and energetic attitude, professional demeanor, and high work quality standards
- Ability to work on multiple assignments and take direction from several senior professionals
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Our growing company is hiring for a historian. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for historian
- Codes reusable test functions or components
- Executes automated tests using multiple systems, platforms, environments, or browsers
- Logs and track defects, reports technical issues to development or product management teams, and verifies fixes
- Hands on work with lab technicians to physically set up and configure instrumentation
- Configure data acquisition hardware and software to acquire signal and data using standard communication protocols from data link through application layers
- Configure data acquisition software to interface with data historian using application layer communication protocols
- Maintain and continuous improvement to database structure
- Assist in maintenance of IT hardware, as necessary
- Generate/program automated data summaries and reports
- Provide training and ongoing support to engineers and technicians to facilitate efficient retrieval and post-processing of laboratory test data
Qualifications for historian
- 3 to 5 years related industry experience in a library or design environment
- A deep understanding of time series historians
- Master's degree in historic preservation, architectural history, public history and History and who meet the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards for Architectural History and History
- Experience with Section 4(f)
- Familiarity with the Pacific Northwest history and architecture
- Experience working with Section 106