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Point Pelee National Park - Point Pelee National Park
Leamington (Ontario)
GT-01
Specified Period - Full-Time: April 2025 - December 3, 2025 / Part-Time (2 days per week): December 4, 2025 - March 31, 2026
$52,053 to $58,597 (plus bilingual bonus)
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**Closing date: 27 February 2025 - 23:59, Pacific Time**

**Important messages**:
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Assessment accommodation
- Applicants can be notified electronically of tests or interviews and results.

**Duties**:
Heritage Presenters are part of a dynamic team that delivers world class programming. This position gives you the opportunity to interact with visitors from around the world while delivering education programs, guided tours, and dialogic conversational interpretation. Learn and share interpretation techniques and practices that contribute to providing visitors with opportunities to discover, appreciate, learn about, and enjoy Parks Canada’s most southern site.

**Work environment**:
Parks Canada is proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of Canada's Best Employers (2025)

Parks Canada is a federal government agency responsible for the protection and presentation of Canada’s outstanding natural and cultural resources through a system of national parks, national marine conservation areas and national historic sites in all regions of Canada.

Top 6 reasons to work for Parks Canada:

- ️ Work-life balance

Paid vacation and leave
Training and professional development
️ Working in beautiful locations
Diverse and inclusive workplaces
Contribution to public service

Point Pelee National Park is your doorway into a world of natural wonders. From your first step into the park you'll be amazed by adversity of habitats Listen for the sweet songs of migratory birds that briefly stop inspiring on their way to northern breeding grounds. Glide through the marshlands in a canoe, paddling silently past turtles basking in the sun or wander barefoot on a sandy beach, enjoying the sun and warm water. In autumn, the migration returns with songbirds darting quickly in and out of vegetation, while dragonflies and Monarch butterflies drift by. In winter, Point Pelee offers quiet beauty and solitude.

**Intent of the process**:
We are currently seeking to fill one (1) full-time position from April 2025 until December 3rd, 2025, and then part-time (2 days per week) from December 4th, 2025, to March 31st, 2026, with the possibility of extension.

**Positions to be filled**: 1

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

Education

ED: A secondary school diploma or approved alternatives or acceptable combination of education, training, experience, or traditional knowledge relevant to position

Note: Acceptable combination of education, training and experience means: Two years of secondary school or PSC approved alternatives; AND Successful completion of a minimum of one (1) course relevant to the duties of the position (e.g., courses taken through continuing education facilities, colleges, universities, professional or governmental organisations or employers including training provided by Aboriginal elders or group that may include but not limited to courses in heritage interpretation, communications, public speaking, performing arts); AND a minimum of three (3) months experience working in the fields of education, interpretation and/or outreach communications.

Degree equivalency

Experiences

EX1: Experience working and/or volunteering in the field of interpretation, public presentation, communications, guiding tours, informal and formal education, leading day camps, theatre performance for the purpose of education, engagement, entertainment and/or motivation.

**The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)**:
Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

Knowledge

KN1: Knowledge of Parks Canada, its objectives and mandate;
KN2: General knowledge of the natural and cultural history of Point Pelee National Park.

Abilities

A1: Interactive Communication: Listening to others and communicating articulately. For example, using open, two-way communication;
A2: Teamwork: Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals;
A3: Adaptability: Adapting to work effectively in ambiguous or changing situations, and with diverse individuals and groups;
A4: Continuous Learning: Identifying and addressing learning and developmental needs to enhance own performance;
A5: Client Focus: Providing service excellence to internal a