Interpretive Ranger

The starting wage is $18.00 per hour. The position will start mid to late February 2025.

Job Summary

Interpretive Rangers conduct educational programs about the Snake River Canyon’s prehistory and the Celebration Park area, including petroglyph tours, interpretive walks to the Historic Guffey Bridge, and hands-on discussions of the life ways of the Paleo, Archaic, and historic native Americans of the region. Other duties include supervising the atlatl range, leading virtual programs, maintaining the facility (including cleaning restrooms), and supporting re-vegetation and sustainable program development.

Key Responsibilities:

Education and Program Delivery

• Work closely with groups of children, professional researchers, and the general public; organize school groups and agendas
• Make program assignments
• Deliver materials to the students and teachers, showing consistency of information between groups
• Develop and present all aspects of the program
• Assist with creation of annual work plan

Facility and Grounds Maintenance

• Maintain the Celebration Park facility by cleaning restrooms, cleaning the visitor center, and keeping the grounds litter-free
• Assist with daily set-up and breakdown of venues
• Lead in implementing the re-vegetation of Celebration Park including:
  • Planting, transplanting, cultivating and caring for native plants
  • Adhering to irrigation schedules and collecting native seeds and plan
  • Mowing, trimming, chipping, weed-eating, and rototilling as assigned
• Maintain existing trees and assist with additional arboriculture

Other Duties

• Handle emergencies
• Train staff members
• Assist with phone logs and scheduling requests
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Skills and Abilities

• Must be able to learn the required materials
• Ability to become proficient in and learn the technology used in virtual field trips

Special Qualifications

• Must successfully complete a background investigation
• Valid driver’s license required

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED equivalency required, college education preferred

Essential Physical Abilities

• Clear speech with or without an accommodation, to effectively convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly and/or quickly
• Sufficient clarity of hearing with or without reasonable accommodation to enable the employee to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information
• Visual acuity, with or without an accommodation, to read instructions, review and organize documents
• Requires sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, which permits the employee to function in a general office environment to accomplish tasks
• Requires sufficient personal mobility, agility, strength, and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodation, to walk, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, climb, up to six (6) consecutive hours in a shift
• Sufficient personal mobility, agility, strength, and physical reflexes, with or without reasonable accommodation, to lift up to 25 pounds, operate machinery, work in outdoor conditions, including inclement weather and fluctuating temperatures

Disclaimer:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the primary job responsibilities satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being assigned to this job. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of individuals in the job. This job description is not an employment agreement and/or an expressed or implied employment contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.

Canyon County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions related to recruitment and selection are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.