Title: Interpretation Internship (2 openings)

Start/End Date: July 2, 2024 – November 29, 2024 (start date is flexible )

Living Stipend: $750 per week ( $550 per week living stipend + $200 housing stipend).

Term: 22 weeks, Full-Time (40 hours per week)

Reports To: Supervisory Park Ranger-Desert View

Location: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (Desert View)

Status: 675-hour AmeriCorps Service Term, full-time, temporary

Benefits: AmeriCorps Education Award of $2,626.27 ; Public Lands Corps Certificate*; both with successful completion of the service term. The Corps Network health insurance provided by Cigna, AmeriCorps childcare assistance . NPS housing available during term.

*To be eligible for a Public Lands Corps certificate, members must be between the ages of 18-30, inclusive, at the time the member begins their term of service.

Summary:

Arizona Conservation Corps (AZCC):

Arizona Conservation Corps, a program of Conservation Legacy, aims to continue the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930's. AZCC is focused on connecting youth, young adults, and recent era military veterans with conservation service work projects on public lands. AZCC operates programs across Arizona that engage individuals and strengthen communities through service and conservation. AZCC has program offices in Flagstaff and Tucson. 

National Park Service (NPS):

The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The National Park Service cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world.

Since 1916, the National Park Service has been entrusted with the care of our national parks. With the help of volunteers and partners, we safeguard these special places and share their stories with more than 318 million visitors every year. But our work doesn't stop there.

We are proud that tribes, local governments, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individual citizens ask for our help in revitalizing their communities, preserving local history, celebrating local heritage, and creating close-to-home opportunities for kids and families to get outside, be active, and have fun.

Taking care of the national parks and helping Americans take care of their communities is a job we love, and we need—and welcome—your help and support.

Position Summary:

The National Park Service is focused on creating an intertribal heritage site at Desert View where the First Voices of members of traditionally associated tribes are elevated and shared directly with the visiting public, as part of an ongoing effort to develop Desert View into a place where Indigenous voices are highlighted, and members of traditionally associated tribes feel welcomed and respected. The interns will be contributing to the education of the general public and helping to advance the NPS Interpretation Division’s goals by creating new ways of amplifying and celebrating Indigenous voices at Grand Canyon National Park.

The interns will be able to learn interpretation skills, project management, and have the opportunity to develop more programming for the park that incorporates First Voices Interpretive programming, and community development within the local Grand Canyon Community.

The interns will work with tribal members to appropriately and effectively share their stories with the public. Their work will include in person visitor experiences, working both individually and with cultural demonstrators, performers and other guests, as well as non-personal interpretive products such as wayside exhibits and/or podcasts or other digital media. Their work will prioritize bringing awareness of Grand Canyon being a living landscape.

Trainings will include professional interpretive skills, public speaking, program management, professional development opportunities, operational leadership, and digital media production, along with the opportunity to learn audio and video editing through digital media productions. The interns will have access to cross training opportunities across the many disciplines found within the NPS including EMS, Sciences, Resource training, Education, etc., and will have the opportunity to shadow other departments and receive mentorship.

Essential Responsibilities and Functions:

• Develop Interpretative media through a variety of mediums.

• Collect interpretive materials through interviews and research that are focused primarily on First Voices.

• Work with tribal members to appropriately and effectively share their stories with the public.

• Be part of the team’s efforts in building skills related to public speaking, facilitation, and inclusivity.

• Present in-person interpretive experiences including interviews, programs, and interpretive pop-ups.

• Assist in developing interpretive products such as podcasts, waysides, social media, etc.

• Assist in planning community events for Native American Heritage Month in November.

Required Skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• Holding or pursuing a college degree.

• Applicants must pass a criminal history check prior to starting in order to participate in AmeriCorps.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Public speaking and meeting facilitation skills.

• Skill with interviewing and recording oral history.

• Video or audio editing experience preferred, but not required.

• Interest in social media.

• Positive attitude and team-oriented mindset.

• Having a passion to elevate Indigenous Voices at Grand Canyon.

  Physical Requirements:

• To successfully perform essential functions, the individual is required to sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, etc. May be required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl for significant periods of time and be able to safely lift 50 pounds on a routine basis. He/she must be able to operate office equipment, telephone, and computer and reach with hands and arms.

• Ability to hike and navigate in rough, wet, and slippery terrain.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  Participant Essential Eligibility Requirements:

  Participation and Expedition Behavior:

• Work effectively as a member of a team despite potentially stressful and difficult conditions. This may require problem solving on an interpersonal or group level as well as a willingness to accept differences.

• Contribute to a safe learning environment, no harassment of others for any reason.

• Willingness and ability to complete all aspects of the program including conservation projects, education, training, and national service.

• Effectively communicate ideas and concerns as they arise directly to supervisors, colleagues, and organization staff.

• Appropriately represent Arizona Conservation Corps, the National Park Service and AmeriCorps to the public and partners at all times.

• Flexibility, adaptability and capacity to work in a fluid, changing work environment.

  Safety and Judgment:

• Interns may be exposed to inclement weather, and extreme temperatures.

• Effectively communicate danger to others in the form of either a warning of danger others may be encountering or a notification of personal distress, injury or need for assistance. Must be able to do so at a distance of up to 50 meters and in conditions with limited visibility or loud background noise such as darkness or high winds.

• Effectively perceive and understand significant and apparent hazards and follow direction by others so that you will be able to successfully execute techniques to manage hazards. These directions may be given before the hazard is encountered or may need to be given during the exposure to the hazard. Ability to respond appropriately to stress or crisis.

• Stay alert and focused for several hours at a time while traveling and working in varied weather conditions.

• If taking prescriptions medications, participants must be able to maintain proper dosage by self- medicating without assistance from others.

Substance Free:

• In accordance with a drug free workplace, alcohol and drugs are prohibited while participating in AmeriCorps and program activities and while on organization property.

Interns will have access to government facilities and systems, and will be supplied with access to government vehicles, equipment, and materials needed to work on the projects and activities as outlined above. Interns must adhere to all government regulations and policies for operating equipment, vehicles, security awareness, and safety.

To Apply: Please submit an updated resume and cover letter along with the online application by clicking the APPLY link below. If you have questions, contact AZCC’s Individual Placement Coordinator, Preston Sands at psands@conservationlegacy.org .

For more information about Arizona Conservation Corps, please visit https://azcorps.org. Arizona Conservation Corps is a program of Conservation Legacy.

Required Experience