Discover Parks Ambassador

2 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada BC Parks Foundation Full time

**Job Title**: Discover Parks Ambassador

**Reporting To**: Manager, Discover Parks

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

**Dates**: May 22 to August 29, 2024

**Parks**: Cypress, Seymour

**Position Description**

Discover Parks Ambassadors work in provincial parks across BC to create amazing experiences that inspire, educate, and empower people to appreciate, enjoy, and care for British Columbia's parks and protected places. We are seeking energetic, motivated individuals with a deep respect for the natural environment to deliver educational experiences in Cypress and Mount Seymour Provincial Parks, ensuring a welcoming and engaging experience.

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

While in parks daily tasks include, program promotion, delivering programs, engaging with visitors, program planning, and collecting and reporting program metrics. You will always be interacting with visitors, sharing insight about the park’s biodiversity and inspiring environmental awareness. Your weekly schedule will include at least one weekend afternoon and evening shift to facilitate the much-loved evening educational amphitheatre programs. On your work from home days, you will collaborator with your teammates to, research program updates, plan for the upcoming week, and submit reports on program performance, supplies and equipment.

**Responsibilities**:

- Interact with visitors
- Educate visitors on how to enjoy parks responsibly
- 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
- Contribute to safe work environment

**Perks of the Job**:

- Industry standard interpretive training provided
- Standard first aid training provided, if needed
- 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

**Work Environment**:

- This is a full-time seasonal position, 35 hours/week. Schedule is Wednesday to Sunday, 9am - 4:30pm and 12pm - 7:30pm once per week
- The position will work a hybrid schedule working outside in parks in your region (4 days/week); Working at a computer in your home workspace (1 day/week)

**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 and moving program equipment
- 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)

**Skills and Experience Considered an Asset**:

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

**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

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