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Maritime Historian

Expert in preparing comprehensive reports, and providing expert guidance to CAC, investors, and regulators.

Maritime Historian

Position Overview

The Maritime Historian at Canadian Adventure Charters Ltd. (CAC) plays a pivotal role in the success of the Corporation. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, the Maritime Historian is responsible for conducting historical shipwreck research, preparing comprehensive reports, and providing expert guidance to CAC, investors, and regulators. This position ensures historical data management aligns with CAC’s mission, values, goals, operating principles, and strategic initiatives

About Canadian Adventure Charters Inc (CAC)


Canadian Adventure Charters (CAC) operates in the ultra-luxury research expedition and deep-sea submersible charter industry. Our elite clientele, consisting of high-net-worth individuals, are offered exclusive and unforgettable voyages to explore the world’s most remote coastlines, breathtaking underwater sites, and historic shipwrecks—all in unparalleled comfort and style.

Our fleet consists of cutting-edge Research Explorer Ice-classed Vessels and Submersibles, registered under DNV & ABS classifications. These state-of-the-art vessels are equipped with the latest technology, ensuring both safety and luxury for all expeditions. With substantial untapped potential in the luxury yachting and submersible sector, CAC is strategically positioned to capitalize on emerging opportunities within the global market.

Key Responsibilities


• Conduct historical research and draft detailed reports on shipwrecks, including government funding programs and projects aligned with CAC’s strategic initiatives.
• Identify, document, and analyze historic shipwrecks, including warships, merchant vessels, and passenger ships lost in Canadian waters, particularly in Newfoundland & Labrador, The Northwest Passage, Baffin Islands, and the Arctic regions.
• Build and maintain relationships with investors, regulators, stakeholders, and global maritime museums.
• Oversee and manage historical maritime art, cultural artifacts, treasures, and high-value shipwreck cargo portfolios valued between $1B-$10B.
• Provide expertise on significant historical maritime events, such as World War I & II naval battlefields, pirate treasures, and legendary maritime explorations.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of John Cabot’s voyages, Viking explorations, and European maritime history related to North America.
• Collaborate with film and entertainment industry partners, including The History Channel, on historical documentary productions related to shipwrecks and treasure discoveries (e.g., Oak Island).

• Utilize underwater sonar mapping and archaeological survey methodologies to analyze shipwreck sites.
• Ensure adherence to corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and confidentiality protocols.
• Support expedition planning, mapping, and data analysis to enhance CAC’s operational efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience


• Ph.D. in Maritime History, Archaeology, or Shipwreck Recovery.
• 15+ years of experience working with maritime museums globally, including in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, England, the UK, the EU, Spain, Africa, and the USA.
• Proven leadership experience with at least 10 years in a senior director role overseeing economic and business development in maritime exploration, luxury yachting, and treasure recovery.
• Expertise in historical artifact identification, shipwreck cargo valuation, and preservation of maritime cultural heritage.
• Extensive experience managing investor relations and networking with Fortune 500 companies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex historical information to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects under tight deadlines while balancing multiple priorities.

Preferred Skills & Expertise


• Experience with deep-sea exploration, submarine operations, and offshore adventure tourism.
• Strong understanding of climate change, global warming, and marine research impacts on historical sites.
• Ability to design, direct, and supervise archaeological projects, including Phase I, II, and III underwater excavation processes.
• Knowledge of historical navigation routes, storm-related shipwrecks, and naval warfare.

Application Process


To apply, candidates must submit a detailed cover letter explaining their background and interest in joining Canadian Adventure Charters, along with a comprehensive resume/CV. Applications should be sent to
info@cacsd.ca. 

For more information about Canadian Adventure Charters, please visit our website at www.cacsd.ca. 

This is an extraordinary opportunity for a renowned maritime historian to contribute to groundbreaking research and high-profile exploration missions while engaging with some of the world’s most prestigious investors and institutions

Assistant Battleship Director BSHIP60084073

https://nc.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NC_Careers/job/New-Hanover-County-NC/Assistant-Battleship-Director-BSHIP60084073_JR-108033

Description of WorkThe Battleship Assistant Director is the Chief Operating Officer of the Memorial and serves as the deputy and subordinate to the Battleship Executive Director. This position manages operations on the Battleship Memorial, visitor center, ship’s store and surrounding properties. Responsibilities include management of the day-to-day operations, budget development, contract and project development and management, engineering and technical planning for major renovations, and supervision of temporary staff and volunteers with the incumbent’s areas of responsibility.

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Daily Operational Oversight – Oversee all operational aspects of the Memorial including the supervision of the staff, volunteers, and contractors. Ensure the Memorial remains open, safe, and enjoyable to visitors.
• Contract Development and Oversight – Research, develop, and administer restoration, maintenance, service, and repair contracts. Serve as liaison between DNCR and the Battleship Executive Director on capital projects.
• Budget Development and Oversight – Support reporting department heads in the development of annual budgets. Provide strategic guidance and prioritize projects in accordance with the strategic plans developed by the Executive Battleship Director when so delegated.
• Public liaison/Battleship Representation – Serve as Battleship’s representative to the visiting public in terms of customer service. Represent the Battleship on committees and at conferences when directed by the Battleship Executive Director. Fulfill the duties of the Battleship Executive Director when so delegated.
• Miscellaneous Duties – Provide oversight of special events, rentals, creation, coordination, and oversight of area specific grants and worker’s compensation claims and investigations.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities/Management Preferences

Recruitment Range: $65,000.00 – $130,000.00

About Us

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) takes care of the things that people love about North Carolina. DNCR manages over 100 locations across the state, including 27 historic sites, seven history museums, two art museums, five science museums, four aquariums, 35 state parks, four recreation areas, dozens of state trails and natural areas, the North Carolina Zoo, the State Library, the State Archives, the N.C. Arts Council, the African American Heritage Commission, the American Indian Heritage Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Office of State Archaeology, the Highway Historical Markers program, the N.C. Land and Water Fund, and the Natural Heritage Program. The Department’s vision is to be the leader in using the state’s natural and cultural resources to build the social, cultural, educational, and economic future of North Carolina. Everyone is welcome. For more information, please visit http://www.dncr.nc.gov. We encourage you to apply to become a part of our team!

Associate Historian: This position is an Analyst in the Programs and Integration Division (PID), a division in the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management (DUSN (M)).

https://crossroads-talent-solutions-llc.breezy.hr/p/764a9871dd3d-associate-historian

INTRODUCTION

This position is an Analyst in the Programs and Integration Division (PID), a division in the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management (DUSN (M)). DUSN(M) is a directorate reporting to the Under Secretary of the Navy. The primary purpose of this position is to collaborate closely with the Secretariat Historian, helping develop, supporting and augmenting a variety of processes, products, and services.

Major Duties

Institutional Memory 35%

  • Develops detailed plans, tasks, milestones and schedules to ensure efficient and timely sequencing for collecting Secretariat history source documents to develop annual Secretariat history summaries. Assists the Department of the Navy Secretariat Historian composing taskers to each political appointee’s office for annual history data call. Independently enter tasker(s) into the Enterprise Task Management Software Solution (ETMS2), resolving questions (when appropriate), reviewing packages for completeness, tracking deadlines, devising and maintaining a catalog of in-house reference files.
  • Collaborates with the Directives and Records Management Division (DRMD), Secretariat Historian and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) to retain, file, and/or archive elsewhere in compliance with DRMD and requirements, but also to meet the research needs of the Secretariat.

Art and Artifact Support 35%

  • Supports art and artifact acquisition, borrowing, and accountability, and responsible presentation in political appointees’ offices. Supports managing E-ring display cases and other special exhibits as required. Works closely with Secretariat Historian negotiating and instituting loans for special exhibits; collaborates and coordinates with DUSN (M) publications branch and Secretariat Historian (and/or other experts) to help all parties keep moving methodically toward completion of exhibit(s).
  • Develops improved system and/or database to catalog art and artifacts and organize history information for labels, tours, and publications.
  • Secretariat Historian Outreach 30%
  • Collaborates with Secretariat Historian instituting new history-related events, strategic communications surrounding events, coordinating with speakers, PID Events Team, PFPA, NHHC/NMMC, as appropriate. Promotes the missions and values of military history commands, museums, and historical preservation work to encourage documenting today’s history. Develops business and financing plans/POAMs, and folders with strategic communications for future events.
  • Collaborates and assists history commands and museums to build a publicly available Secretariat history website featuring artifacts on loan.
  • Provides history tours in absence and/or supports Secretariat Historian tours.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge Required by the Position

  • Ability to communicate extremely well in extemporaneous conversation and in writing.
  • Experience working in complex bureaucracies with multiple stakeholders.
  • Experience developing and implementing complicated and detailed plans for long range projects that demand coordinating inputs from multiple collaborators.
  • Knowledgeable and driven to remain up to date on features of MSO suite and other software. This will be vital for program management and information management responsibilities.

Supervisory Controls – The supervisor assigns specific projects in terms of issues, organizations, functions, or work processes to be studied and sets deadlines for completing the work. Where two or more projects are involved, the supervisor may assign priorities among the various projects as well as deadlines for the attainment of specific milestones within a project. The supervisor or higher-grade analyst provides assistance on controversial issues or on the application of qualitative or quantitative analytical methods to the study of subjects for which precedent studies are not available. Work is reviewed for conformance with overall requirements as well as contribution to the objectives of the study. Findings and recommendations developed by the employee are reviewed prior to release, publication, or discussion with management officials.

  • Incumbent exercises fully delegated authority for history events management; exercises partial and collaborative authority for artifact accountability and institutional memory initiatives.
  • Works collaboratively with Secretariat Historian to develop policies and procedures; once plans are developed, works independently with minimal supervision.

Factor 4- Complexity

  • The Secretariat Historian and their assistant/associate follow best practices of the museum community and working together, negotiating and implementing procedures meeting the needs of both museum professionals and tactfully meeting strategic communications needs of Secretariat leadership. Likewise, they negotiate and implement procedures for collecting historic documents that comply with DRMD, security, legal, regulations; but at the same time meet the minimum organizational memory needs of the Secretariat.
  • This incumbent gathers information, identifies and analyzes issues, and builds useful systems and structures for more effective retention and use of resources and more efficient use/mining of Secretariat information.

Scope and Effect

The purpose of this position is to help institute solutions to improve operations and solve problems in information management, art and artifact accountability, Secretariat history outreach, and strategic communications.

Physical Demands

Incumbent must be able to carry light artifacts and small paintings.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. Security Clearance: This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain

Secret Security clearance as a condition of employment.

2. Pentagon Building Access: This position requires the incumbent to maintain unescorted access to the Pentagon Reservation as a condition of employment.

3. Telework: Situational

4. Drug Testing: This position has not been identified as a drug testing designated position.

5. TDY Requirement: Travel is very limited

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits Offered
  • 401k
  • Life Insurance plans
  • Employee Health and Wellness program

Crossroads Talent Solutions, LLC is a Veteran friendly employer and provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled

Editor-in-Chief Naval History

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4287935820

Founded in 1873, the non-profit U.S. Naval Institute (located at but not part of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD) is an independent publisher for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security. The Institute is seeking an Editor-in-Chief for Naval History magazine (first published in 1987; six print issues per year, plus online-only content).

The Naval Institute’s team of 65 full-time employees is highly integrated across the book publishing, periodicals, news, events, and business teams. We work a hybrid schedule with employees in the office three days a week plus two days remote. There is significant flexibility in the schedule and hours, but all employees are expected to be in the office three days per week.

The current Editor-in-Chief will retire in late January 2026, and we plan to hire his replacement by mid-November to provide full overlap and training.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Reads and evaluates all incoming historical manuscripts
  • Prepares slates for each issue of Naval History, edits articles, and coordinates the efforts of other contributing editors
  • Ensures accuracy by fact-checking articles as needed
  • Works with photo researcher to obtain illustrations and cover art
  • Writes captions and subheads
  • Works with design and production team to ensure quality design and efficient production of the magazine to meet deadlines
  • Supervises online distribution and presentation of Naval History content – schedules and oversees the publication of online-exclusive articles each week
  • Determines topic, researches and writes content, and supervises the production and design of every article
  • Using U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard reports, oral histories, and other sources, researches and compiles or writes sidebars and/or brief articles to complement feature articles in the magazine as well as researching and writing text for informational graphics
  • Commissions and/or solicits expert writers and historians to write original articles
  • Writes bimonthly column, “On Our Scope”
  • Works with Web Director, Design Director, and EVP for Periodicals to ensure that Naval History has strong on-line presence, including on USNI’s web site and social media pages
  • Serves as the host for two article-promoting podcasts per month
  • Annually prepares an editorial calendar that specifies the main focus of each of the next year’s issues
  • Actively participates in the development of Naval Institute conferences and events and supports the programs as required/requested
  • Represents Naval History at conferences, meetings, and receptions as well as at other public events
  • Coordinates the efforts of senior and associate editors as well as a photo researcher – seeks opportunities to expand circulation and revenues and maintain high level of scholarship in the magazine

Requirements

  • Strong background in writing, editing, proofreading, and historical research
  • Personnel and project management skills required
  • Strong knowledge of and interest in historical military matters, especially within the sea services
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, InDesign, Photoshop, online content management systems (such as Drupal and WordPress), and social media platforms
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in English, history, or associated field desired
  • At least five years’ experience in editorial and magazine production
  • Military experience and/or knowledge of military and naval history highly desirable
  • Able to read, analyze, and interpret military-specific and historical manuscripts
  • Ability to respond to inquiries from authors, vendors, or other Naval Institute departments
  • Ability to write correspondence and material for publication that conform to prescribed style and format
  • Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, USNI Editorial Board, and members
  • Strong editorial judgment required – able to read hundreds of manuscripts per year and select the best ones for publication
  • Able to work with authors to help them improve and hone their ideas and arguments
  • Able to provides advice to Publisher on editorial calls
  • Can see and define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions – makes calls on editorial and art requirements
  • Must be able to travel occasionally for research trips and seminars (up to two or three short trips per year)

The U.S. Naval Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Salary Description

$80,000 to $100,000

Staff Curator (Museum Management) in the Conservation Branch, Collections Division of US NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/825129400

You will serve as a Staff Curator (Museum Management) in the Conservation Branch, Collections Division of NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND.

  • You will perform work conserving, preserving, storing, accounting for, shipping of historic properties in the Navy’s Heritage Asset collections.
  • You will interact with the NHHC Enterprise conservators, museum curators, and exhibit specialists to identify special concerns or needs to ensure conserved artifacts are displayed properly to avoid damage.
  • You will perform a variety of routine and special technical duties in connection with the conservation, physical maintenance, preservation, and inventory of the collections.
  • You will serve as a subject matter expert for organic and inorganic artifacts in the collection.
  • You will prepare reports, documenting the conditions of artifacts, treatment options, and methods of preservation/conservation.
  • You will use various methods to examine objects including non-destructive testing.
  • You will adhere to the professional Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.
  • You will answer technical and general inquiries on historical properties in the collection undergoing conservation and preservation procedures.
  • You will participate in outreach and in tours of the laboratory.
  • You will prepare and deliver presentations and lectures on artifact conservation procedures

Assistant Professor of Naval and Military History

Assistant Professor of Naval and Military History

LOCATION:

United States Naval Academy, History Department, Annapolis, Maryland, USA

APPLICATION TIMELINE:

Application review will begin on October 15, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The USNA History Department invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor (Naval and Military History) position to begin as early as July 2025. The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree in history or a closely related field, as well as advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 2025. Specialization within this subfield is open but the committee welcomes applicants with expertise in 20th-century U.S. Navy and Marine Corps history, broadly defined.  

https://www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/Tenure-track-History-AY25.php?fbclid=IwY2xjawFebB9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTAlni4oIx7nFTqFF8H0Mc8nB177DKHfXd3Btim4c07IrA09F_W6b11mcA_aem_19RmlYdcdILQsSFyZBsIWA&sfnsn=mo

Supervisory Historian (Deputy Branch Head) at the NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/788539200

You will serve as a Supervisory Historian (Deputy Branch Head) at the NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND.

Duties

  • You will serve as principle advisor to the Histories Branch Head on historical programs, projects, and policies.
  • You will lead and direct production of U.S. naval historical products.
  • You will assist the Histories Branch Head in supervising three supervisory historians including QA/QC’ing high-level work products.
  • You will plan, develop, and oversee creation of monographs, books, articles, information papers, and memoranda that provide historical background, data, and analysis relevant to current U.S. naval activities.
  • You will assign, track, review, and provide responses to historical inquiries from senior Navy leaders and OPNAV directorates.
  • You will oversee the planning and execution of oral history interviews with Navy leaders and planners.
  • You will maintain liaison with Navy Staff offices and other NHHC branches/divisions for the purposes of planning historical projects and delivering timely historical support.
  • You will assist the Histories Branch Head in evaluating performance, handling administrative taskings (pay, leave, training, and other personnel actions), and managing select Branch and section-level programs and priorities.
  • You will mentor junior personnel in order to develop an agile team of naval history experts, improve retention, and maintain morale.