Olympic National Forest Seeks Archaeologist Candidates

The Olympic National Forest will advertise a permanent full-time Forest Archaeologist position. The Forest will be working with HR to allow the applicant to choose from the following duty stations: Forks, Olympia, Quilcene or Quinault, Washington.  Only one position will be filled.  The purpose of this outreach notice is to determine the potential applicant pool for this position, sense duty station preferences, and to establish an appropriate recruitment method and area of consideration for the vacancy announcement (e.g., at the target grade only or multi-grade; region-wide, service-wide, USDA-wide, government-wide, and/or DEMO).  Responses received from this outreach notice will be used to make these determinations.  If you are interested in applying for the position, please contact Dean Yoshina, Recreation, Heritage, Lands and minerals Staff Officer, for an Outreach Reply Form at dyoshina@fs.fed.us, or call Dean at 360-765-2201 (desk) or 360-981-9101 (mobile). Respond by February 23, 2015. About the Position:  This position serves as the Forest Archeologist, managing the Forest’s Heritage program, responsible for providing cultural resource management support for the Forest as well as inventory, evaluation, consultation and protection of prehistoric and historic sites.  The position involves coordination and planning of projects including interdisciplinary team participation and authoring relevant portions of the environmental document. The position requires excellent collaboration skills among resource specialists as well as partners.  Having excellent written and oral communication skills are critical for success in this position.  The archaeologist will advise line and staff officers on regulatory and program responsibilities.  The Forest Archaeologist works in close coordination with the staff from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation.