Description
The National Park Service (NPS) is providing a non-competitive Notice of Intent to award a cooperative agreement to the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) for the NCPE interns at Northeast Regional Office project. The project aims to provide training opportunities to qualified undergraduate and graduate students in academic programs in historic preservation and related disciplines. The interns will work alongside NPS staff in the cultural resources and interpretation fields in different park units and offices throughout the nation. The project will support the NPS mandate of preserving the nation's heritage and NCPE's goals of improving and developing preservation education.
Key aspects of the project include:
* Providing training opportunities to students in historic preservation and related disciplines
* Supporting the NPS mandate of preserving the nation's heritage
* Improving and developing preservation education
* Working alongside NPS staff in cultural resources and interpretation fields
* Assigning interns to sites according to their areas of expertise and the requirements of the site
* Providing a stipend to interns
* Expecting some moderate physical activity and travel, including overnight travel, as part of the duties of the intern position.