The New York State Office of Mental Health is seeking a Landscape Architect Trainee/Assistant Landscape Architect as part of the NY HELPS Program. This role involves providing landscape architectural design for various projects, preparing renderings and presentations, and offering technical advice to multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide Landscape Architectural design for wetland enhancements and wetland creations; historic preservations, restorations, and commemorations, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, roadside beauty and pollinator habitat, and restoration or redevelopment of areas used for construction staging
• Prepare landscape architectural renderings and presentations for public meetings, grading plans, erosion and sediment control plans, layout plans, planting plans, construction details, specifications, estimates, and correspondence
• Organize and facilitate public meetings, workshops and hearings
• Evaluate potential impacts to New York State Department of Transportation property by projects proposed by other agencies, local governments, developers, and organizations. Ensure that any necessary coordination with other agencies has occurred
• Provide technical advice to right-of-way managers and staff, planning and program management managers and staff; highway, culvert, and bridge design managers and staff; construction managers and staff; and maintenance managers and staff in the areas of landscape architecture, bicycle and pedestrian facility design, accessible design, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), vegetation management, control of invasive species, and erosion control

Skills

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• A bachelor's or higher-level degree in landscape architecture; OR
• A Landscape Architect's License from any state or political subdivision of the United States
• Proof of passing any two sections of the Landscape Architect Registration Exam (LARE) for Assistant Landscape Architect
• Your required educational credentials must have been awarded by an educational institution accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency recognized as an accrediting agency by the United States (U.S.) Department of Education/Secretary of Education
• If awarded by an institution outside of the U.S. and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency

Benefits

• In addition, a Mid-Hudson Adjustment of $2,000 or a Downstate Adjustment of $4,000 may also apply depending on the location of the position.
• Telecommuting allowed? Yes

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