This is a 52-week full-time position

Members of the Bayuk tribe are strongly encouraged to apply **

Position Details**

Stewards Individual Placement Program (SIPP) provides individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health. Participants work with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health. SIP, in partnership with Jean Lafitte NHP & P, are seeking an intern who will supervise a 10 week intern from each Federally Recognized Tribe in Louisiana to finalize a film, language curriculum, and oral history collection from each Tribe. This intern will manage the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (JELA) efforts to develop the “Bayuk Tribal Educational Video Project: Louisiana’s Federally Recognized Tribes In Their Own Words Through Film and Storytelling.” The project will result in a series of short, professional produced videos of tribal member interviews to educate the public about Louisiana’s four federally recognized tribes who lived in and around the six units of the JELA site before colonization. This project will address the wrongful exclusion of these tribe’s stories and the videos will be played alongside the JELA park film in the French Quarter Visitor Center, be accessible through the JELA webpage, and be submitted for inclusion on the National Park Service (NPS) App. JELA will use interview material collected through the Project to create additional podcasts beyond this grant period to be added to the Visitor Center’s interpretative displays and made available through the webpages. Video content will be created and approved by the tribes themselves with production and technical expertise se provided by Elephant Quilt Productions, a New Orleans based film production company.

Position Responsibilities will include:

· Assisting in the recruiting, training and supervising a team of four interns

· Organizing and producing digital content

· Project coordination and oversight

Benefits:

· Position is eligible for an AmeriCorps education award upon successful completion of the program. Value of education award is $6895 (pre-tax)

· Living Allowance: $630/week (pre-tax)

· Trainings offered include: management/recruitment training, consulting with tribal nations and more!

Required Skills

Required Experience

Bachelor's Degree, Driver's license

Project Management

• Ability to engineer and deliver projects over $100m.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple practices across HOK’s organization.
• Must be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form, with an understanding of industry communication protocols.
• Must be able to inspire owners and designers
• Set, monitor and deliver to budgets.
• Project team leadership skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong multi-disciplinary project team leadership
• Ability to teach and mentor others.

Technical

• Able to work creatively to reach solutions to complex problems.
• Expert in current sustainable technologies applicable to the particular engineering discipline.
• Proficient with Revit and AutoCAD.
• Design of electrical systems for complex buildings and campuses
• Design of mission critical systems, including working with clients to establish performance criteria.
• Design of Fire Alarm and Life Safety systems for complex projects and complex controls strategies.