$16.39 - $20.19 hourly
East Bay Regional Park District
Castro Valley, CA, USA
The Position
Interpretive Student Aides are currently enrolled high school and college students who work alongside Naturalist staff to provide interpretive programs and public information in a park visitor center and surrounding parklands. These paid positions are designed for students considering a career in interpretation, environmental education, natural history, cultural history, or park professions while supplementing their current coursework in natural science and/or cultural history. In addition to gaining natural and cultural history information relating to parks, students will develop interpretive skills in this training position.
Essential Functions
Assists Naturalist staff by performing a variety of duties such as providing public interpretive and educational programs (snake talks, farm tours, youth programming, mine tours, history talks, etc.)
Feeding and caring for animals and fish, handling cash and merchandise, or light horticulture tasks...