Seasonal Student Trainee; Park Ranger Wilderness

Seasonal Student Trainee (Park Ranger Wilderness)

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Summary The Internship Program provides students enrolled in a variety of educational environments (high schools, colleges, trade schools, and other qualifying educational institutions) with paid opportunities to work in agencies and explore Federal careers while still in school. This is a temporary appointment for the 2026 summer season (May through September) working in Glacier's backcountry program as a student trainee.

• Performing regular wilderness and backcountry patrols as a trainee or under the direction of other wilderness rangers, ranging from day trips to multi‑day overnight camping trips, via foot. Routine backcountry patrol duties and responsibilities include: collecting inventory and monitoring data and evaluations, patrol reports, visitor contacts, routine trail maintenance, and inspection, inventory, and repair of backcountry facilities (campgrounds, pit toilets, and patrol cabins).
  
  Incumbent will be expected to assist with search and rescue (SAR) operations and perform emergency medical services (EMS) as needed.
• Assisting other wilderness rangers as a trainee with various projects in the backcountry in each district as needs arise. Examples would include evaluation and rehabilitation of campsite facilities, pit toilets, and/or trail infrastructure. Other duties include vegetation monitoring, wilderness character monitoring, campsite evaluations, and backcountry resource impacts.
• Assisting with field implementation of the Wilderness Implementation Schedule (WIS) as a student trainee, which includes the strategies for managing the wilderness and backcountry park‑wide. Assist with wilderness character monitoring using Glacier's wilderness character monitoring format.
• As a trainee, monitoring bear activity and participating in bear management training, and entering data into the Bear Management Inventory and Monitoring System (BIMS). May also participate in other park training in EMS, SAR, and Backcountry Operations as a trainee.
• Become trained in Leave No Trace outdoor ethics and be able to demonstrate and explain to visitors.

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Applicants must maintain student/pathways eligibility by attendance or enrollment in the spring quarter/semester prior to employment and subsequent fall quarter/semester.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males.
• Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronic Funds Transfer Program.
• Pathways participant agreement is required.
• 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 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 disclose 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.
• You will be required to wear a uniform and comply with the National Park Service uniform standards. A uniform allowance will be provided.
• You may be required to work on‑call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.
• Applicants must be at least: (1) 18 years old or (2) 16 years old and: (a) Have graduated from high school or been awarded a certificate equivalent to graduating from high…