Parks Program Services Leader

Kentucky Personnel Cabinet • Olive Hill, KY

3d • $18 - $27 • Onsite

About The Position

This position helps develop, organize, conduct, and promote recreational and interpretive programs for park visitors. The primary responsibilities include assisting with recreational programs and special events, developing new activities and experiences for park guests, conducting programs highlighting the park’s natural, cultural, and recreational features, inspecting recreational facilities and equipment for cleanliness and safety, assisting with hiking trail inspections and maintenance, creating promotional materials, maintaining program, entertainment, and incident reports, assisting with interpretive displays and exhibits, providing guidance to seasonal recreation employees, and interacting regularly with visitors and program participants.

Requirements

• Graduate of a college or university with a bachelor's degree in recreation, outdoor recreation, park resource interpretation, physical education, history, environmental education, biology, forestry, botany, zoology, anthropology, archaeology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, geography, parks and recreation management or administration, sociology, paleoanthropology or a closely related field.
• Related experience as a park naturalist, park interpreter, environmental educator, conservation educator, or in planned outdoor recreation or physical education, recreation, park resource interpretation, history, environmental education, biology, forestry, botany, zoology, anthropology, archaeology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, geography, parks and recreation management or administration, sociology, paleoanthropology or a closely related field will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with recreational programs and special events
• Developing new activities and experiences for park guests
• Conducting programs highlighting the park’s natural, cultural, and recreational features
• Inspecting recreational facilities and equipment for cleanliness and safety
• Assisting with hiking trail inspections and maintenance
• Creating promotional materials, including flyers, brochures, and press releases
• Maintaining program, entertainment, and incident reports
• Assisting with interpretive displays and exhibits
• Providing guidance to seasonal recreation employees
• Interacting regularly with visitors and program participants

Benefits

• Paid time off (sick and vacation) plus paid holidays
• Overtime or compensatory time
• Affordable health, dental and vision insurance with optional Health Reimbursement Account
• Life insurance
• Retirement
• Wellness Incentives Program
• Complimentary Park familiarization visits for you and family
• Training and career development opportunities
• Optional Deferred Compensation program (401K)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive