Preservation Architect + Director

Preservation Architect and Director | Position Profile and Call for Applications

POSITION DESCRIPTION

InSite Consulting Architects seeks a Preservation Architect + Director to lead and grow the firm’s Washington, DC office, serving as both a technical authority in large-scale historic preservation and a strategic business development leader with deep federal-sector experience. This individual will manage and oversee complex federal, state, District, institutional, and cultural preservation projects—from studies and planning through construction administration—while navigating multi-agency federal approval processes and expanding the firm’s presence among federal owners, cultural institutions, and public-sector clients in the Washington, DC region.

The Preservation Architect + Director role requires a professional who brings demonstrated success working with federal and local governmental agencies as well as other institutional clients and is equally adept at project leadership, regulatory navigation, client development, and staff mentorship.

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InSite Consulting Architects

Founded in 2000, InSite Consulting Architects (ICA) is a growing, dynamic, and creative architecture firm headquartered in Madison, WI, with offices in Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, and St. Louis, MO. This award-winning firm specializes in work within the existing built environment, focusing on adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and forensic analysis of buildings that include interior renovations and new construction projects. ICA also has expertise in building design, enclosure technologies, institutional facilities management, and construction/contract management.

Team members collaborate from project inception through design development and construction completion.

ICA is a federally-certified small business with a passion for humane and sustainable design. As a company with an inclusive and family-friendly organizational culture, we prioritize our employees’ physical and mental well-being and offer a meaningful professional work experience and benefits package including paid vacation/sick leave, holidays, a company-matched qualified retirement plan, and more.

At ICA, impactful design results from our people and passions. Our approach to work is through hands‑on evaluations, in-depth field work, and detailed design work. We are committed to our inclusive culture and diversity where we encourage originality. We respect the need for a flexible work environment and empower your desired career growth. At ICA, you will find a collaborative work environment with a wide variety of project types and project scopes ranging from $10k studies through $100M+ comprehensive facility modernizations.

We offer challenge, recognition, and growth opportunities to fuel career growth.

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• Serve as Director of the Washington, DC office with responsibility for strategic growth in federal and institutional markets.
• Act as senior firm representative to federal agencies, review bodies, and institutional clients.
• Collaborate with firm leadership on long‑term positioning within the federal preservation sector.

Lead and oversee historic preservation projects, including:

• Historic Structure Reports (HSRs)
• Conditions assessments and compliance documentation
• Master planning and feasibility studies
• Restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse design
• Construction administration under federal delivery frameworks
• Serve as Project Manager/Director for complex federal and institutional projects.

• Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
• Federal preservation laws and regulations
• Agency‑specific design and review requirements

• Serve as a primary client point‑of‑contact.
• Guide teams and clients through complex reviews, approval, and coordination processes.
• Understand and navigate contracting environments, delivery methods, and stakeholder structures.

• Lead…