Salary Details: $36.17 to $47.02 per hour
Deadline: Jun 30, 2021
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Responsibilities
About this opportunity: This position will serve as the Chief of Interpretation for Sitka National Historical Park and is responsible for managing the Interpretation Division, including serving as a role model in excellent interpretive skills and visitor services. This position serves as program manager and professional-level advisor for all interpretative and education programs, and planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating the programs.
The incumbent is responsible for day-to-day scheduling and operation of the park’s interpretation program and supervision of permanent and seasonal interpretive rangers, interns, and volunteers. Operations include one visitor center open year-round, one historic building open seasonally, exhibits, seasonal demonstrating artists, social media platforms, park publications, the park website and project implementation. The incumbent is also responsible for being an involved member of the park management team.
The division currently has 3 permanent employees, and the incumbent will be actively involved in recruiting seasonal interpretive positions. The selectee will also assist in seasonal training schedules, review work plans, evaluate interpretive programs, and oversee staff schedules.
This position serves as the Park Public Information Officer, working closely with local media to publicize park evens, goals, and plans. Acts as Park Liaison for community groups with an interest in national parks to help foster support for National Park Service (NPS) and Sitka National Historical Park goals and objectives.
The incumbent will also manage the division budget and is responsible for planning, programming and budgeting activities. This position provides information and makes decisions of park-wide importance on park issues and is not limited to just their functional area.
For additional information regarding major job duties of this position, please contact Mary Miller, Park Superintendent, 907-747-0111, mary_miller@nps.gov
About the National Park Service: The employees of the National Park Service care for special places that are the heritage of all Americans. Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service has been dedicated to the preservation and management of this country’s outstanding natural, historical, and recreational resources. Park ranger – interpreters connect people to parks. They play a key role in ensuring that visitors have a meaningful, satisfying, and safe park experience, help visitors decide how to spend their time in the park, and inform them about the wonders that await their discovery. Park ranger – interpreters are specially trained to engage the public so that each park visitor can find a personal connection with the meanings and values found in the places and stories of that park. They help visitors explore the many dimensions of parks by introducing them to a variety of perspectives. By providing the opportunity for visitors to care about the places they visit, they promote stewardship and the opportunity for those visitors to care for park resources. National parks are among the most remarkable places in America for recreation, learning, and inspiration. The work done by park ranger-interpreters through effective interpretive and educational programs encourages the development of a personal stewardship ethic and broadens public support for preserving and protecting park resources, so that they may be enjoyed by present and future generations.
Area Information: Sitka National Historical Park, Alaska’s oldest federally designated park, was established in 1910 to commemorate the Battle of Sitka, which took place in 1804. All that remains of this last major conflict between Europeans and Natives of the Northwest Coast is the site of a Kiks.adi Fort, located within the confines of this scenic 113-acre park located in a temperate rain forest on the Indian River estuary. The park’s story continues at the Russian Bishop’s House, one of four surviving examples of Russian colonial architecture in North America. This original 1843 log structure conveys the legacy of Russian America through exhibits, refurbished living quarters and the Chapel of the Annunciation. A world-renowned collection of Tlingit and Haida totem poles arrayed along historical Totem Trail and in Totem Hall, and other Native Alaskan cultural property as well as artifacts from the Russian era, form the heart of the park’s extensive curatorial collection.
Sitka is located on Baranof Island in Alaska’s Southeastern Panhandle. It can be reached by commercial airline and is a port of call for cruise ships as well as ferries on the Alaska Marine Highway System. Sitka has a moderate climate. Summer has frequent rain, and temperatures range from the high 50’s to high 60’s F. Winter has rain and snow, with stretches of sunshine, and temperatures ranging from high teens to the 40’s. Annual precipitation is 85 inches per year.
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