Apologies for cross-posting. This is a job vacancy with my employer at Chester,
UK, for an environmental archaeologist.
CHESTER CITY COUNCIL
ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGIST
Scale 4 #12171 - #13563 p.a.
We are seeking a keen environmental archaeologist with a wide range of
interests and expertise and a flair for communication to fill a vacancy
in our 10-strong Archaeological Service.
The Service is a part of the Council's Cultural Services Division and
is based in offices adjacent to the Grosvenor Museum. It has a
curatorial responsibility for Chester District but carries out
commissioned fieldwork, post-excavation projects and other research
over a wide area. The presentation of archaeology to the public, and
their involvement in it, is an important part of the Service's work.
This is done through volunteer and work-experience opportunities,
together with a variety of events for people of all ages and some more
formal higher education courses. Increasingly these programmes are
carried out in cooperation with the City's other heritage services.
Chester is one of the main historic centres of a region which
encompasses not only Cheshire but also north-east Wales, Merseyside and
south Lancashire, and we work in close cooperation with Cheshire County
Council and other neighbouring agencies, such as the University of
Manchester Archaeological Unit.
You will therefore have the challenge of fulfilling a variety of roles:
* Helping the City Archaeologist to formulate research aims and briefs
(e.g. sampling strategies) and monitoring their implementation
* Ensuring the analysis (both directly and through sub-contracts) of
environmental material from evaluations and larger-scale excavations
and contributing to internal reports and publications. You will need
to take a holistic approach, working with other project team members to
integrate environmental evidence with other archaeological and
documentary data. The emphasis is likely to be on the study of animal
and human bone, but an ability to identify plant remains at least up to
assessment level is necessary. Work on bird and fish bones and pollen
has hitherto been contracted out. You will also need to be happy to
teach and guide the volunteers and work-experience students who help
with some of this work.
* Working alongside other heritage professionals in presenting the
results of research to a wide variety of audiences, for example through
day schools, lectures, guided walks, children's club, open days. This
entails some travelling and evening and weekend working.
If you would like to discuss the post informally, please contact:
Dr Peter Carrington, Senior Archaeologist 01244 402028.
For further information and an application form, please contact Chester
City Council, The Forum, Chester CH1 2HS, telephone 01244 402120 (day
time), 01244 402315 (out of hours answerphone) Minicom 320915.
Closing date for applications: 17 April 1998
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