Internship Opportunities

Current Openings

 

Youth Empowerment Stewards (YES)

The Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) AmeriCorps Member at Keweenaw National Historical Park will add important resources to the park’s interpretive toolbox by creating accessible audio described read-along recordings of the Junior Ranger books for Keweenaw NHP. These Junior Ranger books will be available on the park’s website, allowing them to be accessed by a computer or phone. This product will make the Junior Ranger activities more accessible while visiting the park or at home.

The YES member will work alongside the park staff and gain specific technical knowledge needed for creating digital content. They will work with their supervisor, the Interpretation and Education Program Manager, and other park staff in the course of their work.

In addition to work on the Junior Ranger books, the YES member will also help staff the Calumet Visitor Center; providing information and orientation to visitors.

The internship is expected to start late January 2026 and last for 12 weeks.

Candidates must be between 18-30 years of age or a max of 35 for military veterans, identify has having a disability or have a personal connection to the disability community, and they must be U.S. Citizens or eligible to work within the U.S. Please share this opportunity with your networks. More information about the position and how to apply is found on the Conservation Legacy Jobs website.

 

Museum Program Fellow

The ACE Museum Program Fellow will work with the Curator at Keweenaw National Historical Park and the Midwest Regional Museum Curator to provide collection management support to park and regional curatorial staff. The Fellow will assist parks by assessing individual park museum program's museum collection through annual inventories, developing refinement plans, and preparing deaccession packages for the respective parks. The position will also assist with the management and inventory of other park museum collections. Duties will include:

• Prepare, organize, and inventory museum collections at other parks as assigned by the Park Curator and/or Regional Curator. Assist curator with packing collections, accountability of museum collections through inventories, and preparing accession and deaccession packages for Collections Committee review.
• Assist regional museum staff with planning and preparation for relocating collections from facilities at risk to multi-park repositories, using guidelines established in the Regional Museum Storage Facility Strategy (2022)
• Learn the Museum Collection Management System (MCMS) to assist parks with the transition and to ensure data fields contain appropriate entries
• Evaluate catalog records against NPS cataloging standards for the disciplines of art, archeology, archives, ethnology, history, biology, paleontology, and geology
• Performing routine museum maintenance activities such as environmental monitoring and pest management in the MWR Cultural Resources archives

This internship is expected to start in September 2025 and end in mid-February 2026.

Please share this opportunity with your networks. More information about the position and how to apply is found on the American Conservation Experience Jobs website.