The Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL) at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture seeks a Project Manager and a Project Associate to join a collaborative, innovative team dedicated to interdisciplinary, community-based research that supports the conservation and preservation of historic and endangered places and landscapes. The Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL) produces research and creates new models of innovative cultural landscape stewardship in the region, the nation, and ar... more details
The Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL) at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture seeks a Project Manager and a Project Associate to join a collaborative, innovative team dedicated to interdisciplinary, community-based research that supports the conservation and preservation of historic and endangered places and landscapes.
The Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL) produces research and creates new models of innovative cultural landscape stewardship in the region, the nation, and around the globe. We are an interdisciplinary group of academics and designers connected to and collaborating with a larger group of associated professionals, organizations, and grassroots groups to achieve this mission. Our work focuses on increasing awareness of cultural landscapes’ historical, ecological, and social value through innovative scholarly research, site documentation and fieldwork, planning, preservation, management, public education, and design. Founded in 2015, the Center for Cultural Landscapes has received support from the UVA School of Architecture Dean’s office, the UVA Sara Shallenberger Brown Cultural Landscapes & Sites Initiative, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the UVA Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures and the Jefferson Trust, an initiative of the University of Virginia Alumni Association. The CCL is dedicated to helping address place-based issues and challenges by leveraging land-based heritage and culture. We center local knowledge and community agency in all our endeavors.
Both positions will allocate their time toward general Center operations, two grant-funded participatory historic preservation initiatives, and report directly to the Center's Faculty Director. The CCL’s staff, students, faculty, and grantees will create a robust slate of work to tell a new foundational story of the United States, commemorating African American places, migration, preservation, and history across three states. The two positions will support creating a new online space for storytelling and engagement with historic Black settlements, events, and educational symposia, new historic preservation courses, and dispensing grant funding to grassroots artists and preservationists. Successful candidates will engage with various stakeholders within and outside UVA, collaborating with technological and artistic talent and coordinating place-based learning and outreach.
The Project Manager position is based at UVA. They will assist the Center’s faculty director with supporting center operations daily, stakeholder engagement, grantee communications and application process design, co-managing development of working groups and outreach materials and protocols, and student management. The Project Manager will co-lead with the faculty director of the CCL, CCL operations, and planning of grant activities based at UVA. The Project Manager will primarily interact with staff, students, advisory board members, and faculty. The Project Manager may serve as the organizational point of contact for the client and stakeholders on each project, being supported with the following duties:
Ensure that the project is implemented within the designated budget and timeline.
Coordinate billing, invoicing, and grantee communications with fiscal tech and under the faculty director's oversight.
Coordinate and manage Board and stakeholder meeting coordination, including stakeholder communications, while ensuring that communications with stakeholders are inclusive and responsive.
Develop meeting summaries and agendas, ensuring the following steps and perspectives are fully represented.
Maintain and update Center and grant-funded project websites.
Work with student interns to guide, mentor, and supervise their work.
Prepare conference presentations and posters.
Help process grant applications.
Ability to work with and oversee undergraduate and graduate student research associates.
Bachelor’s degree
At least four years of relevant experience. Significant relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
Willingness to travel to support advisory board convenings and support faculty director at events for at least 20% of the year.
Anticipated hiring range : $72,000 - $75,000
The Project Associate supports the Faculty Director and Project Manager’s above activities but spends more time enacting their plans and directives. The Project Associate engages in direct outreach, surveying, scanning historical documents, recording oral histories, and building relationships at community events, museums, and historic Black communities in Texas, California, and Virginia. They will promote grant and educational opportunities and provide the public with various ways to contribute and engage to achieve grant aims—building a portal, applying workshops, volunteering training, collecting origin and migration stories, and curating private archival material. This position requires travel between Virginia, Texas, and California to represent the initiative’s mission, solicit involvement, promote grant opportunities, and provide technical assistance to grantees (artists and grassroots preservationists) and community-based groups. During year one, the focus of the work will require travel around central Virginia and to Texas. Increased travel to Texas and California occurs in the second and third years. Below is a more specific set of responsibilities envisioned for the Project Associate:
Conducting surveying, mobile community curation events
Managing scanning and data collection in the field and person
Identify events and locations for educating people about grant opportunities, African American Placemaking, and migration.
Managing all aspects of field operations and event planning and set up.
Coordinate event outreach planning with local partners and CCL consultants.
Manage project budget related to travel, field events, and partnerships.
Ensuring appropriate representation of project outcomes in all written reports, presentations, websites, and public materials.
Co-develop research protocols, including submission of research proposals to UVA’s Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and adherence to IRB protocols with the Faculty Director
Providing oversight and mentoring of student interns while in the field
Conduct diverse types of training related to curation and qualitative research.
Bachelor’s degree
Two years of relevant experience. Significant relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
Willingness to travel to attend and stage meetings, events, and outreach programs at least 40% of the year.
Anticipated hiring range : $65,000 - $68,000
Both position require the following Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of historic preservation and African American history and heritage
Superlative people and professional-level communication skills, both written and verbal, and demonstrated experience in collaborating with individuals from a variety of backgrounds.
Ability to manage project finances, including budget management and proposal writing.
Willingness to pursue continuous learning in areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Experience tracking and coordinating projects and handling extensive high-level scheduling, calendar management, meeting planning, and correspondence with partners nationwide.
Experience collaborating with community-based organizations, performing training and outreach.
Experience working as a leader and participant in preservation or public history projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree
Experience using advanced meeting and project management tools (ex. Notion, Airtable)
Experience in facilitating spaces where issues of systemic racism, equity, and historical disparities inform stakeholder engagement and desired outcomes.
Substantive experience in two or more of the following: historic preservation, urban planning, community development or public history
Knowledge of public outreach and stakeholder best practices and ethics
Familiarity with local, state, and federal environmental policy, regulations, programs, and institutions
These are restricted term limited positions and continuation is based on the availability of funding and satisfactory performance.
The selected applicants will be required to complete a background check prior to their first day of employment per university policy.
TO APPLY:
Please visit UVA job board: https://jobs.virginia.edu and search for “ R0058635 ”
Complete an application online and attach:
1. Cover letter detailing which position is of interest to you and your knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences
2. Resume or CV
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For questions about the application process, please contact Rhiannon O’Coin, Senior Academic Recruiter, rmo2r@virginia.edu or Andrea Roberts, Director Center for Cultural Landscapes, aroberts318@virginia.edu
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