Craters Moon National Monument and Preserve – Preventative Search and Rescue Individual

Recruitment began on February 10, 2026

and the job listing Expires on March 13, 2026

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Arco, Idaho

Position Title: Preventative Search and Rescue Individual Placement – 640 hours

Summary: The National Park Service is recruiting one summer individual placement to provide Preventative Search and Rescue (PSAR) at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. The members will serve with the Recreational Technicians team within the Visitor Services Division. The primary purpose of this individual placement is to perform a variety of duties associated with preventing search and rescue incidents from occurring within the Monument.

About Northwest Youth Corps (NYC):

Northwest Youth Corps was created in 1984 to offer teenagers and young adults an education-based, work experience modeled after the historic Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930’s. Today, we serve over 1,000 youth and young adults each year across a four-state region who restore critical habitat, build trails, lead volunteers, educate youth, and respond to local and national disasters.

Duties and Responsibilities: Major duties are related to learning and working alongside personnel in the Recreational Technicians at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. The individual placement will assist in monitoring visitor statistics and Preventative search and rescue education.

Specific activities include:

Major Duties (80%)

• Patrols
  • Conduct regularly scheduled PSAR patrols of various park resources such as park trails, campgrounds, parking lots, roads, backcountry and/or wilderness areas, etc. in accordance with well-established procedures and precedents. While on patrol, provide visitors with information and education to ensure their safety, obtain their cooperation, and facilitate safe visitor use of park resources. Identify and report visitor/resource problems and/or violations of regulations concerning the use of protected or public land areas.
• Education
  • Provide administrative, operational, and logistic support to PSAR-related educational activities conducted by the organization in accordance with well-established practices and precedents. Develop and present formal and informal PSAR-related educational programs and/or media using well-defined prescribed outlines, guidelines, and commonly occurring educational practices, techniques, and tools delivered in-person and through educational media and technology. Conduct straightforward research on well-established PSAR-related topics (e.g., hiking safety, heat illness, sanitation, etc.)
    
    and synthesize the knowledge gained from research to develop and deliver educational PSAR experiences based on the direct application of established policies, practices, and criteria. Educating visitors on the natural and cultural resources of Craters of the Moon.

Minor Duties (20%)

• Search and Rescue
  • Serve as a member of a Sear and Rescue (SAR) Team on events that may require trail response, ground/hasty searches, helicopter evacuations, and/or litter carries. Follow well-defined instructions and clearly established practices and precedents to support the extraction, evacuation, and stabilization of rescued visitors and/or personnel.
• Resource Monitoring
  • Monitor the activities of park visitors to check if they are in compliance with the terms and conditions of their permits and are not adversely affecting the resources or visitors of the park unit.
• Training
  • Provide informal and formal training and education to employees, partners, volunteers, individual placements, cooperating association representatives, etc. regarding well-defined PSAR-related policies, practices, processes, methods, systems, tools, etc.
• Data Collection
  • Collect and organize field data (e.g., visitation, sanitation, weather, wildlife, resource impacts) in accordance with well-defined instructions and standardized procedures. Record all data collected and utilize a variety of computer programs to compile, reduce, store, retrieve, and report data and other PSAR-related information.

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