Caroline-
For #1, you'll want to check in on the U.S's National Park Service and their
site on Heritage Preservation Services; Cultural Heritage Training Programs;
NCPPT sites. They also publish a book on preservation training opportunities.
Oh heck, just give the NPS a call and those nice people will direct you. You
might also web into Cornell University site www.preservenet.edu. (if the url
is no longer any good, just Yahoo to Preserve Net).
For #2, One source is posting your opportunity to universities who have
historic preservation degree programs as well as those in the NPS training
book......I believe the US listing of universities can be accessed through
Preserve Net at Cornell and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Candice Brashears
Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust,l CT
& Trinity College-Hartford, CT