Discover Parks Ambassador

2 weeks ago

Nanaimo, Canada BC Parks Foundation Full time

**Dates**: May 23 to August 31, 2023

**Schedule**:Full-time seasonal, 35 hours/week.

**Job location**:Working outside in parks in your region (3-4 days/week)

Working at a computer in the Rathtrevor Beach Nature House workspace (1-2 days/week)

**Purpose**:To excite, engage and educate park visitors

**Performance**: _Mission:_ # meaningful visitor interactions, # program attendance
- Brand:_ upkeeping Discover Parks Brand value

**Position description**

**What does a typical day look like?**

Your days will be split between running programs throughout the park and operating the Nature House. One day per week, from the office in the Nature House, you’ll have team meetings, reflect on the previous weekend, plan for the coming weekend, prepare for programs, draft posters, and brush up on your local knowledge. When working throughout the park, you’ll check in with your local park staff, set up your information booth and engage with visitors about local flora and fauna. You might run a nature walk with families, before collecting observations of nature with iNaturalist. You’ll finish the day running fun kids’ activities such as plant scavenger hunts and games about local animals, then pack up for the day. On some Saturdays, your schedule will be shifted so that you can run evening amphitheatre programs at your Park/s.

**Responsibilities**:

- Interact with visitors (95% of your time)
- Educate visitors on how to enjoy parks responsibly
- Operate and welcome visitors to the Rathtrevor Beach Nature House
- Do your own research to become an expert on flora and fauna in your Parks
- Run activities and games for children and families in Parks
- Present daytime and evening family-friendly interpretive programs in parks
- Learn existing Jerry’s Rangers programs and develop new programs
- Promote iNaturalist to visitors
- Monitor and report daily interaction statistics
- Collect iNaturalist observations with a mobile device (5% of your time)
- Contribute to safe work environment

**Perks of the job**:

- Industry standard interpretive training provided
- Standard first aid training provided if needed
- End of summer bonus
- Staff activities and competitions
- Discounts on BCPF merchandise
- You get to spend an amazing summer in BC’s beautiful parks having a positive impact on people’s visits

**Requirements**:

- A love of the environment and the outdoors
- Comfortable making presentations, talking to visitors, and leading tours
- Enjoy interacting with large crowds and having lots of conversations, sometimes back-to-back, throughout the day. Some BC Parks get very busy, and your team might have 100+ conversations with visitors in a day
- Experience working or volunteering with children
- Ability to work in a remote environment, while staying connected with your team online
- Driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle for accessing the parks
- Personal computer with video conferencing capabilities and strong internet connection
- Personal mobile phone
- Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Search (will be completed during the hiring process)

**Additional skills and experience**:

- Fluency in additional languages is an asset
- Standard first aid certification or higher is an asset
- Post-secondary study in environmental sciences or outdoor education is an asset

**Canada Summer Jobs Funding Eligibility**:
As a condition of pending Canada Summer Jobs program funding, to be eligible for funding you will need to be:

- be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of employment
- be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment
- have a valid Social Insurance Number and be legally entitled to work in Canada and BC

**Hiring Policy**:
BC Parks Foundation is committed to employment equity:

- Those identifying as being part of groups which are underrepresented or have additional barriers to the labour market are encouraged to apply

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