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The following job descriptions are provided as examples of the administrative job opportunities available with the National Park Service:

GS-09 Landscape Historian at the Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation:  The incumbent serves as a cultural resource specialist for parks and/or programs where historical themes comprise a major aspect of park resources.  Work assignments may involve National Park Service units or properties where historical resources are predominant, or properties where natural resources are predominant but where significant historical themes and resources are present.  Professional fields of study must be pertinent to National Park resources and themes.

GS-13 Historian at the Southeast Regional Office:  Incumbent serves as an advocate for the National Park Service taking strong, principled and factual positions on the conservation and preservation of cultural resources. He/she provides program and management oversight for the History branch. The incumbent initiates and coordinates research on the Cultural Resources of the parks; manages baseline inventories of cultural resources; and maintains oversight on the accuracy and adequacy of preservation work performed in the parks. He/she cultivates partnerships with public and private interdependent agencies to protect and manage the integrity of cultural resources. The incumbent supervises a program staff of three (3) to six (6) employees.