Student Heritage Presenter

Parks Canada - Visitor Experience
Banff (Alberta)
Term - Various position lengths commencing May to September 2025
$22.56 to $25.87 per hour
**Closing date: 2 March 2025 - 23:59, Pacific Time**

To be considered for employment under one of the student employment programs, the individual must be:

- registered as a full-time or part-time secondary or post-secondary student in an accredited academic program
- participating in adult education and retraining programs at the secondary level, operated under the authority of an accredited academic institution
- should meet the minimum age requirement to be employed in the province or territory of work

**Important messages**:
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

**Important Information and Instructions**

2. Students will be required to cover all travel expenses to and from the location of work.
3. Living accommodations may not be provided.

**Duties**:

- Delivering interpretive activities and presentations to provide visitors of Banff National Park with opportunities to discover, appreciate, learn about and enjoy the place and its natural and cultural resources and understand their significance to Canada
- Engaging hundreds of visitors per day at busy day
- use areas
- Sharing the importance of proper food storage while picnicking as well as safe wildlife viewing practices, and keeping the "wild" in wildlife
- Spending a significant amount of time per day driving vans
- Assisting with facilitation of safe wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors at wildlife jams (several vehicles parked along the road, people out of vehicles blocking the flow of traffic) to ensure the safety of motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and wildlife

**Work environment**:
This could be your work place; Rocky Mountain peaks, turquoise glacial lakes, a picture-perfect mountain town, abundant wildlife and scenic drives come together in Banff National Park - Canada’s first national park and the flagship of the nation’s park system. Over four million visitors a year travel to the park for a variety of activities including hiking, biking, skiing and camping in some of the world’s most breathtaking mountain scenery. Banff is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks UNESCO World Heritage Site.

As a student heritage presenter, you will spend your summer learning and growing your interpretation skills in a busy and engaging environment You will be working with a team of heritage presenters and interpretation officers to deliver important stories to visitors. Some of the topics you will discuss are human wildlife coexistence, species at risk, aquatic invasive species, fire & climate change, and responsible park stewardship. You will work on one of the following 3 teams:

- Downtown & Day use area Interpretation: You will be patrolling day
- use areas and speaking with visitors about responsible picnicking. You will also share the importance of keeping food and other scented items secure and away from animals. You will deliver fun activity stations in downtown Banff and at day-use areas.
- Living with Wildlife Interpreters: You will patrol secondary roadways to educate visitors on safe wildlife viewing. You will deliver drop-in programming at busy day
- use areas to educate visitors about staying safe in wildlife country and how to coexist with wildlife
- Theatre interpreters: You will deliver fun and educational stage
- based evening programs daily in the campground theatres, and you will deliver drop-in programming at busy day
- use areas

**Intent of the process**:
**Positions to be filled**: Number to be determined

**Information you must provide**:
Your résumé.

Contact information for 3 references.

Open to students currently enrolled in secondary or post-secondary school in an accredited institution and/or those participating in adult education and retraining programs at the secondary level, operated under the authority of an accredited academic institution.

Degree equivalency
- Experience in public speaking
- Experience in providing front line customer service

**The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)**:
English essential

Information on language requirements

ABILITIES:

- Client Focus: provide service excellence to visitors and external/internal clients
- Continuous Learning: identifying and addressing learning and developmental needs to enhance own performance
- Teamwork: work collaboratively with others, readily shares information, knowledge and personal strengths, and seeks to understand the perspectives of others to achieve common goals

PERSONAL SUITABILITY:

- Exercises sound judgment
- Communicat