Description:
Schedule: Schedule: 8-hour days/5 days a week.. Consecutive days off to be determined.
Dates: 05-04-2022 - 08-27-2022
Agency: National Park Service
Location: Great Basin National Park, Baker Nevada
Overview:
- Spend Your Summer Exploring Great Basin National Park
- Two Internships Available.
- Housing is available, required to pay $288.00/month housing rental cost.
- Payment of rent must be made to Administrative Officer, on the 1st business day of each month
- This position will perform duties which include:
- Creating and delivering formal and informal Interpretation programs
- Operating a busy visitor center desk
- Performing government fees handling, including opening, and closing a government cash register
Responsibilities:
Interpretation duties will consist of the intern providing front line information, orientation, and interpretive services for visitors in the day-to-day operation of the Park, both at the Visitor Centers and at various locations throughout the park. The intern will work with park interpretive rangers developing and presenting a variety of programs, including:
- Junior ranger programs and porch talks,
- Natural history- orientation talks at the visitor center
- Formal interpretive, 1 to 1 ½ hour cave tours
Formal and informal Bristlecone trail walks and roves
- Roves at other locations within the park.
- Interns may also assist with special events during the summer season.
- Visitor Center Information Desk duties will include answering questions, providing directions, recommending hiking trails, interacting with Junior
-Rangers, using a cash register, selling park passes and camping or event tickets, bookstore items, processing lost and found items, operating a 2-way radio, telephone and other duties as necessary.
- Other duties may consist of roving hiking trails and visiting viewpoints for the purpose of chatting with visitors, answering questions, and assisting them to gain the most from their visit. There may also be opportunities for cross-training in some locations (working with vegetation crew, First Aid/CPR/AED training, search and rescue training, and assisting in emergency carry-outs, maintenance, etc.)
Qualifications:
This position requires a highly motivated, hard-working, personable individual interested in pursuing a career with the National Park Service or other federal agency. Elementary Education or Environmental Interpretation major preferred but is not required to apply. To clarify, interpretation is the art of interpreting the park and its resources to the public visitors. Coaching and training will be provided. It does not require proficiency in a foreign language. Successful candidates must pass a background investigation.