Outreach Education Assistant

Location

Bremen, ME

Full time

The National Audubon Society is a leading nonprofit conservation organization with 120 years of science-based, community-driven impact, dedicated to protecting birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow. Birds are powerful indicators of our planet's health, acting as sentinels that warn us of environmental change and inspire action. Audubon works across the Western Hemisphere, driven by the understanding that what is good for birds is good for the planet.

Through a collaborative, bipartisan approach across habitats, borders, and the political spectrum, Audubon drives meaningful and lasting conservation outcomes. With 800 staff and over 1.9 million supporters, Audubon is a dynamic and ever-growing force committed to ensuring a better planet for both birds and people for generations to come. Learn more ubon.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.

The Outreach Education Assistant represents the Seabird Institute (SI) to the public as a narrator and bird guide aboard puffin watching cruises, and as a greeter and interpreter at the Project Puffin Visitor Center in Rockland, Maine. Providing outreach in the form of educational programming and presentations to the public is expected. Overall, the Outreach Education Assistants bring the story of SI's 50+ year history to children, adults, and families, and help people to understand the necessity for this applied conservation work, as well as to inspire them to become personally involved in conservation action as donors and citizen activists.

Shared housing is provided and required at Audubon's Todd Wildlife Sanctuary, located at 12 Audubon Road, in Bremen, Maine.

There are (3) full-time seasonal positions available as detailed below.

Start Dates:

• Position (1) and (2) – Begins May 1st, 2026. This position includes working at the visitor center as well as assisting with all chores and logistics for the opening & establishment of Seabird Island Field Camps.
• Position (3) – Begins May 8th, 2026.

End Dates:

• (1) position – August 31st
• (2) position – September 30th
• (3) position – October 31st. The 2 later positions include working at the Visitor Center 5 days/week in September and October.

Hours:

40

This role is on‑site at Audubon's Todd Wildlife Sanctuary in Bremen, ME.

Compensation: $19.00 / hour

• Train with Education staff to learn SI history; how to identify Gulf of Maine seabirds; natural history of the Maine Coast with the goal of working independently as a tour interpretive narrator.
• Serve as interpreter, field naturalist and store‑keeper aboard commercial puffin‑watching tours departing from New Harbor and Boothbay Harbor to Eastern Egg Rock, offshore in Muscongus Bay.
• Train with the Project Puffin Visitor Center Manager to learn: the operation of the point‑of‑sale system;
  Visitor Center interpreter, PPVC education programs and inventory management procedures.
• Maintain inventory and sell seabird‑related items aboard the commercial tours and at the PPVC.
• Assist in writing social media posts.
• Assist with implementing educational and birding programs.
• Promote SI's mission, and encourage tour participants and PPVC visitors to financially support the program by soliciting donations.
• Serve as storekeeper at the Hog Island store and help maintain inventory demands.
• Assist mainland staff with logistics, which includes driving to boat docks, bus and limo stops as needed.
• Assist mainland‑based staff with procurement of supplies, packing groceries, research supplies and mail‑in waterproof island transport bags; cleaning and filling water jugs for resupplying research stations, etc. as needed.
• Greet and guide new Seabird Institute volunteers. Help them with shopping and packing of supplies for the remote island field camps as needed.
• Ensure shared housing facility is properly and consistently maintained and cleaned.
• Act as official point of contact for visitors at the Todd Wildlife Sanctuary when mainland staff are not available; times assigned as necessary.
• Maintain and foster culture of safety.
• Other job duties as assigned.