Interpretation and Visitor Services Team Member – AmeriCorps

• Job Category:
  Individual Placement, Ameri Corps, Interpretation
• Employee Type:
  Ameri Corps

Interpretation and Visitor Services Team Member – Ameri Corps

Whitman Missions National Historical Site

• Start Date:
  
  08/11/2026
• End Date: 06/11/2027
• Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 1200 Hours

Stewards Individual Placements (Stewards), a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with Ameri Corps service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants serve with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits to provide institutional capacity, develop community relationships, and support ecosystem health. Stewards in partnership with the Whitman Mission National Historic Site will host an Interpretation and Visitor Services Team Member.

This Interpretation and Visitor Services Team Member is an Ameri Corps position that will play a crucial role in providing interpretation and education services to the public inside the park visitor center, and outside on the park grounds and trails. This person will also help further ongoing interpretive and educational projects that the park is already invested in including, but not limited to, long‑range interpretive planning efforts, a new junior ranger activity book, and work with the park’s Tribal partners.

Additionally, the position will assist the larger NPS team by performing certain essential maintenance duties, including tasks like emptying trash and spot‑cleaning the visitor center. To serve in this position, the Conservation Legacy participant will be expected to research the history of Whitman Mission National Historic Site (WHMI) to develop and present interpretive programs to the public and education programs to visiting schools, regularly hike park trails, engage the public through formal programs and informal contacts, and provide orientation to visitors while at the front desk of the visitor center.

This position will increase NPS operations and visitor services capacity at Whitman Mission NHS, enabling more visitors and students to experience the nationally significant historic, cultural, and natural resources that the park protects and interprets. The member will be part of the NPS team at Whitman Mission by serving as a front line of interpretation, by providing interpretive and education programs, and by assisting the park in long‑range projects.

• Regularly rove park grounds
• Greets and orients all visitors who enter the visitor center, providing them with orientation, information and informal interpretation of the site’s historic, cultural and natural resources.
• Maintains appearance and cleanliness of visitor center and work areas.
• Records park statistics and responds to visitor information requests.
• Research, using primary and secondary sources, history and culture and historic events relating to Whitman Mission NHS.
• Create clear outlines for interpretive and education programs for students and the general public.
• Deliver interpretive and education programs to visitors.
• Give feedback to coworkers and receive feedback from coworkers on interpretive and educational programming.
• Working with supervisor and team to develop content and activities for kids’ activity booklet.
• Working and interacting with Tribal Partners on joint interpretive products.
• Providing feedback on written interpretive products and activities.

• Willing to undergo and must pass the required criminal history checks.
• Comfortable speaking in front of audiences.
• Position requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, hiking, carrying, using hands to handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms, talking and hearing. Required to stoop, kneel, climb stairs, and/or crouch. Ability to hike over rough terrain.
• Ability to frequently move up to 15 lbs., ability to move up to 30 pounds occasionally.
• Willing to work in both outdoor and indoor conditions. Work environment conditions can change frequently.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree.
• United States citizen, United States national, or a lawful permanent resident alien.
• At least 17 years of age.
• Has received a…