Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SWCA Environmental Consultants is a growing employee-owned firm providing a full spectrum of environmental services. They are seeking a Senior or Principal Architectural History Team Lead to drive growth and uphold the highest standards of quality in their Cultural Resources program across the West Region.
- Responsibilities
- Expand and grow the architectural history practice across strategic markets and client types throughout the West Region through training and mentorship, business development, and strategic hiring
- Lead the architectural history practice through direct and indirect means (influence) to be a highly effective, collaborative, client service-oriented element of the business
- Maintain and improve practice area QA/QC program and ensure effective implementation
- Identify technical development needs and priorities specific to the region and develop/facilitate trainings and mentorship programs to train staff
- Work collaboratively with the West leadership team, as well as architectural history teams across SWCA
- Manage key projects, act as Subject Matter Expert, and maintain annual productivity target of 65% or higher
- Contribute to national business development efforts in architectural history, historic preservation, and multidisciplinary efforts
- Support growth and performance initiatives. This includes strategic thought, marketing, and branding activities, pursuit tracking, and sales
- Drive geographic and market expansion by advising on potential key hires
- Drive compliance of safety policies and reporting requirements to ensure overall team safety
- Act as architectural history growth strategy leader for SWCA’s West Region
- Be a technical authority and recognized leader in architectural history
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert to other professionals in their field(s), acting as an advisor to internal and client teams
- Maintain productive relationships with regulators, industry experts, and agency staff
- Ensure implementation of stringent QA/QC to provide work of the highest quality and defensibility
- Identify, develop, manage, and grow key client relationships with a focus on, but not limited to, the West Region
- Act as an advocate for SWCA and clients in negotiating favorable contracts and resolving conflicts
- Manage risks and ensure consistency by being involved in the creation and review of proposals, contracts, and deliverables
- Manage opportunity-specific sales and pursuit teams, from opportunity identification and evaluation, through bid preparation and contracting
- Network within industry organizations to expand the regional client base in line with the region’s strategic goals
- Develop a pipeline of teaming partners - both prime and sub - to meet pursuit goals
- Develop competitive pricing strategies and efficiencies that enable projects to meet or exceed SWCA’s earnings targets
- Motivate and engage team members by creating a culture of collaboration, performance, celebrating and recognizing successes, and implementing strategies to attract, recruit, retain, motivate, and develop talent
- Direct supervision of staff within local working group (program)
- Influence team culture and the work of others, even without formal authority, to ensure quality and consistency
- Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Architectural History, Art History, Historic Preservation, or a similar field
- Meets Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in Architectural History (36 CFR Part 61)
- Minimum of ten (10) years of experience conducting research, writing, and consulting in American architectural history with a consulting firm, agency, or other professional organization, including experience as a project manager
- Working knowledge of federal cultural resource and historic preservation laws and practices, including NEPA, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
- Working knowledge of applicable state laws, regulations, and guidance in key West region states (e.g., California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii)
- Demonstrated experience in supervising, mentoring, and providing leadership for other professionals
- Demonstrated business development success and consulting acumen, including success in leading and participating in proposal preparation, client interviews, and agency meetings
- Primary report authorship in a CRM context and experience providing quality control review of field documents, site forms, and reports
- Knowledge of the history and architectural history of the Western U.S
- Required Writing Sample: Applicants must submit a writing sample demonstrating expertise in historic context analysis or resource evaluation
- Experience with application of The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation (36 CFR Part 67) and Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record documentation and procedures are preferred
- Experience working on a variety of project types and sizes, on all project aspects (from pre-field tasks through final report preparation), in multiple regions, and with a variety of regulatory agencies
- Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Bonuses
- Employee stock ownership
- Company Overview
- SWCA is an environmental consulting firm. It was founded in 1981, and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.swca.com/.
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