PARK MANAGER

Overview

PARK MANAGER 1

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

TENNESSEE STATE PARKS

Salary: $67,764

Closing Date: 02/18/2026

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Background Check:
This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

• Protect, Preserve, and Interpret the story of the Cherokee Removal Memorial Site along the Trail of Tears.
• Serve as a Commissioned Officer, providing and maintaining park safety and security, including law enforcement and basic first aid.
• Manage full time staff members and job share positions and support growth and development through the performance management cycle.
• Oversee and implement the Park Strategic Management Plan and uphold a set annual budget.
• Work closely with staff to maintain/oversee all park operations, including managing multiple capital and park improvement projects.
• Provide oversight for all operations and amenities within the park that generates revenue.
• Support community outreach programs and foster partnerships with neighboring agencies.

Preferred candidates will possess a bachelor’s degree in natural resources, forestry, wildlife biology, history, anthropology, archeology, or a related field and have five or more years of cultural or natural resource management experience. The candidate is required to be a state commissioned officer recognized by the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy or is willing to become commissioned.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person’s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.