Description:
Overview
- Front desk customer service at park Visitor Centers
- Provide information to visitors to ensure an enjoyable and safe trip
- Fee collection
- Operate AV equipment
- Open and close building
- Develop and provide interpretive, educational and school programs on park natural and cultural resources
- Park communications through written and verbal means, social media and press releases
- Assisting with special projects as they arise
- Work both inside and outdoors
Position Responsibilities:
Visitor Services intern positions may include some or all of the following responsibilities. Each park may have specific duties relevant to the park that are not listed here. Greet and orient park visitors. Answer visitor questions and conduct public presentations on natural and cultural resource significance. Provide safety and regulatory information, conduct interpretive talks and guided walks while developing an in-depth knowledge of the park’s geology, history, plants, and wildlife. Interns may collect fees, and sell park-related association gifts, books and merchandise in the visitor’s center, and account for funds received. Interns will ensure park information pamphlets and other materials are well stocked in the visitor’s center.
Qualifications:
- Excellent customer service skills
- Enjoy working with individuals and groups of diverse backgrounds (public experience helpful)
- Excellent writing skills
- Knowledge or interest in regional geology, native tribes, ecology, history, etc.
- Excited about Public Lands and a desire for knowledge of the natural world