Apply for a 2024 Technical Trades Advancement Program Internship at Eisenhower NHS!
American Conservation Experience
Summer 2024 Technical Trades Advancement Program Internships
Landscape Stewardship Corps Internship, April 1 to September 27, 2024
American Conservation Experience, a nonprofit dedicated to providing rewarding environmental service opportunities, seeks young adults interested in exploring the Traditional Trades in partnership with the National Park Service. Learn and advance your horticulture skills to become the next leaders in managing historic landscapes in our National Parks! The Traditional Trades Advancement Program-Landscape Stewardship Corps members will work alongside professional gardeners and facilities staff at Eisenhower National Historic Site to care for historic landscapes in Gettysburg, PA, learning about plant and cultural landscape maintenance skills. No background or previous experience in horticulture is necessary. A 26-week commitment is required.For more information about the National Park Service’s Traditional Trades Advancement Program (TTAP) - Landscape Stewardship Corps please visit: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1098/landscape-stewardship-corps.htm
For more information the American Conservation Experience please visit: www.usaconservation.org
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Two Landscape Stewardship Corps members will work with a highly skilled team of landscape gardeners and facilities staff from Eisenhower National Historical Site caring for the parks’ exceptional gardens and grounds. They will experience the full range of behind-the-scenes preservation and maintenance activities required in managing a nationally significant historic landscape and will receive training and mentoring from park staff to assist in
Pruning trees and shrubs
Maintaining gardens including planting, watering, dead heading, weeding, and fertilizing and pest management
Restoring historic vegetation
Using cultural landscape reports
Collecting data
Using and caring for small engine landscape equipment
Understanding and maintaining historic landscape character
BENEFITS:
A weekly stipend of $720
Free housing at the park
$1,000 in professional development funds for training, networking, and/or conferences
Training historic cultural landscape management and maintenance including plant care, pruning, vegetation identification, and other topics
Week-long in-person training for full Landscape Stewardship Corps at NPS site with travel/meal expenses covered
Professional networking opportunities
Public Land Corps Hiring Authority
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
TTAP-Landscape Stewardship Corps requires candidates to:
Learn and work as part of a team in positive and productive ways
Strictly adhere to NPS and ACE equipment training, certification, and safety protocols
Have a strong interest in history, horticulture and/or the environment and working outdoors
Participate in NPS’s Landscape Stewardship Corps’ week-long in-person training (June 2024)
Be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident
Be 18-30 years old at time of service (veterans up to 35 years old)
Have a High School Diploma/GED
Pass fingerprint-based FBI, state criminal, and a national sex offender check
Be able to provide proof of a driver’s license and complete an MVR check
Local candidates are encouraged to apply, but being local is not required
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Caring for historic cultural landscapes in National Parks will require working outdoors for extended periods of time in possibly rough terrain, or in periods of heat or cold. Insects may bite and wildlife is not always predictable. Certain landscape tools require manual dexterity, and interns should be able to move up to 50 pounds. National Parks are public spaces and positive visitor interaction is expected.
HOW TO APPLY: Please submit your resume and brief cover letter describing your interest and experience, and contact information for three professional or academic references to the online application page for this position here: https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/ Applications are considered on a rolling basis, and the application period will close once this internship position is filled. Questions? Please reach out to ACE Member Coordinator, HPTC Programs, Kyle Ellison, at kellison@usaconservation.org.
American Conservation Experience provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, American Conservation Experience complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to the hiring manager.
Two interns from our 2022 summer team!
NPS Photo
Summer Interpretation and Visitor Service Internships
NOTE: Eisenhower NHS is no longer accepting applications for our summer 2024 interpretation internship positions. For those interested in future positions, please contact us at eise_education@nps.gov.
Eisenhower National Historic Site traditionally hires interns to work with the interpretation and education staff for the summer season. These internships take place between late May and early August and include interpretation positions.
Interpretation interns give house tours of the Eisenhower home, provide visitor services, and present other interpretive programming they have researched and prepared. Interns also have the opportunity to work on special projects involving social media and 21st Century public history interpretation. Eisenhower National Historic Site’s interpretive programming includes political, cultural, social, and military history topics relating to the lives of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower and the eras in which they lived. We are always looking for how we can best use our historic resources and stories to be part of conversations that are happening today about our society and world.
Summer Interns work a 40-hour week (interpretation interns should expect to work weekends) with formal and informal on-the-job training provided. The internships are not paid, but dormitory-style housing and a living stipend of ($2000) are provided. These stipends are courtesy of our partners with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Society.
Students who have completed at least one year of college and are working toward degrees in history, political science, museum studies, park management, education, graphic design or related fields are welcome to apply. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
For questions and to submit your application please email us at eise_education@nps.gov. To apply, email your resume with two professional references and a cover letter explaining your interest.
