The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is hiring a Park Resource Ranger at the French Creek State Park Complex. As a Park Resource Ranger, your responsibilities include ensuring the safe use of park facilities by assisting visitors, providing information, and guiding them to the appropriate resources for further help. Your duties involve office tasks such as answering phone calls, operating office equipment like radios and computers, and researching park information. Additionally, you will issue permits for watercraft and firewood, conduct educational programs, and assist with interpretive materials and volunteer projects. In addition to office work, you will also be responsible for maintenance tasks like litter pickup, sign painting, and trail marking. You will monitor park facilities and visitors, ensuring compliance with park rules and regulations.
Deadline to apply is March 11, 2024.
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Posted: March 1, 2024 · Leave a Comment
Park Manager – Promised Land State Park Complex
Promised Land State Park Complex is looking for a permanent, full-time Park Manager to oversee the administration, operation, and maintenance of Promised Land State Park Complex. The Park Manager assists with implementing the management objectives established by the Park Operations Manager of the complex.
*DCNR employees only
Deadline to apply is March 2, 2024.
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DCNR Park Resource Ranger – French Creek State Park Complex
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is hiring a Park Resource Ranger at the French Creek State Park Complex. As a Park Resource Ranger, your responsibilities include ensuring the safe use of park facilities by assisting visitors, providing information, and guiding them to the appropriate resources for further help. Your duties involve office tasks such as answering phone calls, operating office equipment like radios and computers, and researching park information. Additionally, you will issue permits for watercraft and firewood, conduct educational programs, and assist with interpretive materials and volunteer projects. In addition to office work, you will also be responsible for maintenance tasks like litter pickup, sign painting, and trail marking. You will monitor park facilities and visitors, ensuring compliance with park rules and regulations.
Deadline to apply is March 11, 2024.
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Posted: March 1, 2024 · Leave a Comment
DCNR Park Resource Ranger – Delaware Canal State Park Complex
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is hiring a Park Resource Ranger at the Delaware State Park Complex. As a Park Resource Ranger, your main responsibility will be to address any issues or potential threats to the safety and well-being of park visitors. This includes inspecting park buildings, facilities, and grounds for safety hazards and taking immediate action to correct or control them. You will also be responsible for performing traffic control, conducting beach and playground inspections, and posting safety zones as directed. Additionally, you will provide information to park visitors about park facilities, services, and nearby state parks, as well as offer emergency care and assistance when needed. You will also handle campground permits and passes, as well as account for revenues received and make bank deposits using the bureau’s electronic reservation program.
Deadline to apply is March 11, 2024.
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Forester – Buchanan Forest District
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is looking to hire a Forester. In this role, you will help enhance new and existing recreational facilities and will assist with the implementation of timber land management activities on the Buchanan Forest District in Fulton, Bedford, and western Franklin Counties under the supervision and guidance of the Resource Assistant Forest Manager. You will also respond to emergencies like wildfires, support the district insect and disease coordinator and become a State Forest Officer.
Deadline to apply is March 11, 2024.
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Seasonal Biologist – Allegheny National Forest
The Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is seeking a Seasonal Biologist to work in the Allegheny National Forest (ANF) in northwest Pennsylvania as part of a team to complete ecological field surveys in timber management stands on physically challenging terrain. The work will involve walking transects through stands proposed for silvicultural management to collect both general and site-specific ecological data, record occurrences of nesting sites, rare, unique, or invasive plants and wildlife and other ecological features using the Survey 123 application on state-issued iPad mini devices and attend trainings and check-in meetings with U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Forestry staff.
Deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.
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Posted: March 1, 2024 · Leave a Comment
Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation Landscape Internship
Fallingwater, a property entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and designated as a National Historic Landmark and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is seeking two (2) Landscape Interns for summer 2024. The landscape internship will consist of outdoor work for the Fallingwater grounds and the completion of a project that combines design work and hands-on work. The interns will work independently and alongside the Fallingwater horticulturist to complete their projects and implement improvements to the landscape. Tasks will include weeding, planting, monitoring and removal of invasive plant species, and pruning. The interns work under the direct supervision of the horticulturist and the senior director of operations. Interns will additionally be advised by an outside landscape architecture professional. Several educational field trips are part of the internship. The intern will increase their skills and knowledge in plant identification, plant care and design of the landscape.
Deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.
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Robert and Harriet Kirkpatrick Education Internship
Fallingwater, the architectural masterwork designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, seeks applications to fill their Fallingwater Education Department internship. This intern will reside on-site while immersing themselves in the many organizational and curricular tasks required to provide successful educational programming at Fallingwater. This is a unique opportunity to work in the education department at a world-renowned museum and architectural site. The education intern will work directly with education department staff to interpret Fallingwater through guided tours and other educational programs.
Deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.
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Judy Cheteyan Fallingwater Collections Internship
Fallingwater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, seeks applications for its Judy Cheteyan Fallingwater Collections Internship. Working under the supervision of the senior director of preservation and collections and the collections manager and archivist, the collections intern will assist in preparing the archives for grant-funded environmental upgrades. The intern will also select one or more subcollections from within the archives as a focused summer project. Their selection will be based on diversity of content, and will be of a size and scope that can be successfully completed.
Deadline to apply is March 31, 2024.
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Fawcett Digital Multimedia Internship
Fallingwater, the architectural masterwork designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is seeking a Digital Multimedia Intern for summer 2024. This is a unique opportunity to work at and help promote and share the importance of Fallingwater, a renowned architectural site on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This internship will enhance your skills and build experience in the fields of social media, digital communications, photography, videography and public relations. The intern will work in collaboration with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s Communications Department on various social media projects to help promote Fallingwater and attract new and engage current fans and followers.
Deadline to apply is April 1, 2024.
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Watershed Conservation Internship
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) seeks three summer interns for the Watershed Conservation Program. Interns will assist with implementing a variety of watershed restoration projects and aquatic surveys, in close coordination with Watershed Conservation staff. Duties may include assisting in the areas of water quality monitoring and assessment, watershed restoration and stream habitat enhancement, agricultural best management practices, project design, planning, and implementation, and biological survey work focusing on macroinvertebrates, various fish species, hellbender salamanders, and/or freshwater mussels.
Deadline to apply is April 15, 2024.
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