Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park – HPTC Build Up Project Management – AmeriCorps – Build Up Intern

Position Title: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park – HPTC Build Up Project Management – AmeriCorps

Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements

Site Location: Fredericksburg, VA

Terms of Service:

• Start Date: 3/17/2025, Preference will be given to applications received by 1/20/25
• Duration: 26 Weeks
• AmeriCorps Slot Classification: 900 Hours

Purpose:

Stewards Individual Placements (STE) provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our cultural resources. Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health.

The Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is dedicated to providing diverse and underrepresented youth with a professional experience and exposure to technical fields, helping the National Park Service to recruit and develop entry-level talent to build a more technically skilled and inclusive workforce. While also providing meaningful and relevant technical internships for racially and ethnically diverse students and military service members. The goals of this program include, supporting high-priority projects in parks, regional offices, and Washington support offices. Increasing relevancy, diversity, and inclusion in the NPS workplace. While establishing a pipeline for converting talented and diverse students, recent graduates, and service members into career positions in the NPS.

The HPTC utilizes historic preservation projects as the main vehicle for teaching preservation philosophy and building crafts, technology, and project management skills. Our experiential learning approach emphasizes flexibility in addressing the unknown conditions encountered during the project and ensures that the goals of preservation are met.

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park is seeking a caring and creative thinker to serve as a Project Management Member on the facility management team. The member will work alongside site staff developing project management plans for ongoing projects in 2025.

Description of Duties:

• Developing project management plans for ongoing projects in 2025
• Working to support project management, oversight of the construction of a fire suppression and a geothermal HVAC system in park structures
• Developing cultural resource documents & research for the 106 compliances
• Assisting staff with oversight on project management, completion reports and monitoring environmental impacts
• Scope of work development
• Project oversight, documentation, completion reports, GIS and pic
• Research and numerus site visits

Minimum Qualifications:

• United States citizen, United States national, or a lawful permanent resident alien
• Ages 18-30 (Up to 35 with veteran status documentation)
• Has received a high school diploma or equivalency certificate; or has not dropped
• out of elementary or secondary school to enroll as an AmeriCorps participant, and
• agrees to obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent prior to using the education
• award
• Agrees to provide information to establish eligibility and to complete a National
• Service Criminal History Check.
• Very strong communication skills (writing/editing)
• Very strong organizational skills
• Ability to work independently
• Possess a valid driver’s license
• Willingness to work in the field as work may require overseeing construction
• operations or hiking into project sites.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred but applicants with certification in business management or project management will also be considered
• Proficiency in MS Office (word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Adobe

Physical Requirements:

Conservation Legacy is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to perform essential functions. Some positions may require periodic overnight travel, non-traditional hours, ability to move across varied terrain, use program-specific tools and a range of technology on an infrequent or frequent basis. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Ability to safely drive an organizational vehicle may also be required for some positions. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.

Time Requirements:

Typically, this position is expected to serve Monday through Friday, but exact service schedules may vary. A half hour lunch break will not be counted towards AmeriCorps

Member may be required to participate in national, state, or local service projects or events as part of their service term.

Orientation and Training:

• Member will receive an orientation that includes training on AmeriCorps prohibited and
• unallowable activities.
• Involvement in dynamic team, get experience in and have impact on a national program
• in the National Park Service
• Exposure to many individuals in youth programs, historic preservation, and training world
• of National Park Service
• Ample professional and individual development opportunities to be determined by intern
• and supervisor

Benefits:

• $700/wk living stipend + $300/wk additional benefit (equivalent to $25/hr)
• Segal Education Award upon completion of required hours: $3,697.50
• Park Housing Available
• Travel to National Park Service sites available
• Networking across the National Park Service

Evaluation and Reporting:

As an AmeriCorps member, performance will be evaluated on whether the member has completed the required number of hours, the member has satisfactorily completed assignments, and if the member has met other performance criteria that were clearly communicated at the beginning of the term of service.

Reporting requirements include, but are not limited to, bi-weekly timesheets and accomplishment tracking.

Supervisor Name and Contact Information:

Kevin Record

Program Coordinator

krecord@conservationlegacy.org

(681) 666-3621