Seasonal Park Guide

Summary

The primary purpose of this position is to provide guide services to visitors. The work involves giving talks, interpreting natural and historic features, answering questions, guiding tours, and providing miscellaneous services to visitors.

• Presents talks/demonstrations and leads tours, providing general information based on the interpretive themes of the site. Programs are generally brief and given to varied audiences they cover a specific topic relative to park themes and utilize previously prepared research and documentation prepared by park staff.
• Develops and prepares occasional programs/tours of a more specific nature that are of interest to the employee and are consistent with site interpretive themes. May present programs off site.
• Staffs both indoor and outdoor interpretive areas as well as monument's heritage center. Greets visitors, provides basic orientation to the site and local area, provides safety messages, responds to questions in person, and by telephone, and works in cooperating association sales area.
• Assists with planning, preparation, and execution of NPS sponsored special events and programs such as Rendezvous, Junior Ranger program, and youth programs.
• Provides a variety of interpretive support duties including the use and care of audio‑visual equipment, care for living history clothing (inventory and tracking, and cleaning items as well as making needed repairs), care and cleaning of interpretive props in all areas, inventory and stocking of brochures, maintaining supplies at interpretive stations, opening and closing the site, and records visitation statistics.

Grand Portage National Monument (GRPO) is made up of 710 acres, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Monument lands are encompassed by Reservation lands of the Grand Portage Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. GRPO and the Grand Portage Band are partners in operating the national monument, with the Band responsible for all maintenance operations in the park.

Incumbent will work frequently with Grand Portage Band members and tribal employees. Cultural resources are largely related to canoe‑dependent exploration of North America, fur trade archaeological resources, and Native American heritage. Significant natural resources include Lake Superior shoreline, wetlands, boreal forest, and Pigeon River frontage on the United States and Canadian border.

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
• Direct Deposit:
  Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program.
• Incidental Driving:
  You may be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties. Prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year thereafter (or more frequently if management determines such need exists), you will be required to sign an affidavit certifying to your possession of a valid State issued driver's license that is current and has not been revoked, suspended, canceled, or otherwise disqualified in any way to prohibit your operation of a motor vehicle.
  
  You will also submit a photocopy of your valid State issued driver's license prior to your first official motor vehicle operation, and again every year, or more frequently if management determines such need exists. Lastly, you may be required to submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that discloses all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you.
  
  Please indicate in your application whether you possess a valid State driver's license.
• Government Housing: may be available.
• Uniform:
  You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided.
• Minimum Age Requirement:
  Applicants must be at least 18 years old or at least 16 years old and: (a) Have graduated from high school or been awarded a…