News Release

National Park Service to Hire Youth Workers for Summer 2022

Date: March 22, 2022

INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Indiana Dunes National Park has jobs for four teenagers this summer. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program is a work-learn-earn program for 15-18 year-olds. Deadline to apply is April 30, 2022.      

Participants are paid $7.25 an hour for the 40-hour work week. The program runs from June 5 to August 13, 2022, and applicants should be prepared to work the entire length of the program. Youth jobs include working as part of a crew to do a variety of manual labor tasks, normally outdoors. The crews perform work such as staining, painting and caulking the exterior of park buildings and work as grounds maintenance (mowing grass, picking up trash, cleaning restrooms, etc.) and trails rehabilitation. 

No experience is necessary. Participants will be selected by random draw from the pool of applications. 

National Park Superintendent Paul Labovitz invited all interested teenagers to apply. “This is a great chance for local youths to become involved in their national park and earn some money,” said Labovitz. “It’s an opportunity to work in the beauty of the national park and learn more about the area they live in,”    

To be eligible participants must be U.S. citizens and 15 years old before June 5, 2022, but not turn 19 years old before August 13, 2022, the ending date of the program. The YCC application form is available through high school guidance offices or from the Indiana Dunes National Park Office at 219-395-1772. The forms are also available on the national park website at:  http://www.nps.gov/indu/parkmgmt/jobs.htm 

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Indiana Dunes National Park is part of the National Park Service. More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for America’s 423 national parks and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.nps.gov.