Job Responsibilities
My main responsibilities include review of archaeological scope
ofwork, research design, and archaeological survey reports and
provide comments. I also review project plans and advise
developers what they need to do to comply with the required
local and federal historic preservation laws. About six hours of
my time a day are spent on these responsibilities.
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Job Requirements
This job position requires a minimum of a Masters degree in
anthropology or closely related field from an accredited
universlity with at least three years of field work experience.
At lest one year must be in a supervisory level
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Uppers
Just to be able to work with major developers or development such as golf
courses, hotels, or housing subdivisions who have potential to adversely affect
cultural resources and advise them what they need to do to fulfill the
requirements of the law which will eventually preserve the culture and local
heritage for the future generation to lean and appreciate is a rewarding
experience.
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Downers
There are times where people disturb significant archaeological
sites intentionally or unintentionally. To try to mitigate an
adverse effect after the fact is a difficult thing to do. One of
the reasons is that people who damaged the cultural resources do
not have the money to pay for the mitigation work. Even if we
try to mitigate the adverse effect, the information we get will
not be as informative as opposed to information acquired from
undisturbed cultural resources. This cna be frustrating.
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Lifestyle
This position requires 8 a.m. to p.m every day Monday through Friday. It calls
for many conferences on and off island. There are many archaeological
organizations around the country such as Society for American Archaeology that
State and Territorial Archaeologists are encouraged to attend. This position
requires littel field work but a lot of office work and a lot of meetings with
people therefore, we need to be well dressed not in coat and tie but clean and
presentable. Whomever in this position must be familiar with the local and
Federal Historic Preservation laws particularly the National Historic
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and the implementing regulations at 36 CFR
Part 800.
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Compensation
At 25 years in the government and 15 years in this position, the
base pay is $53,000.00 per year. There is a good retirement plan
with the Government of Guam. The government provides sick and
annual leaves. It also pays portion of retirement contribution.
Every 1,040 hours of accumulated sick leave can be counted as
one year toward retirement. Upon retirement the government pays
a lumpsum amout of moeny for what ever nubmer of annual leave
you have at the time of retirement. For example, if you make
$26.00 per hour and you have 10 hours of annual leave left, you
will receive $260.00 lumpsum. That 10 hours will also be
calculated and added on to your number of years of services. The
more years you have the more percentage you will be getting in
your retirement pay.
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Advice to Jobseekers
I encourage students to take anthropology/archaeology in
college. This is a demanding field but ofcouse it depends on
where you live. In Guam there is a big demend for archaeological
work. The federal and local laws that protect cultural resources
are pretty strong thus all projects that may have potential to
disturb these resources are mandated to perform the required
archaeological studies. The beauty about this field is if you
cannot get a job in the government or with someone, you can be a
private consultant and still make a good living. The demand for
archaeological work will never stop because earth moving
activities and other large developments that may affect
archaeological resources will never stop at least for the next
thousands fo generations.
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