Interpretive Assistant AmeriCorps

Position Details

Position (s): 4317

Position Title: Interpretive Assistant - Ameri Corps

Conservation Legacy Program: Scientists in Parks, Stewards Individual Placements

Site

Location:

Olympic National Park, Port Angeles, Washington

Number of positions available: 1

Duration: 20 Weeks (not flexible)

Flexible

Start Date:

Yes

Start Date: 05/03/2026

End Date: 09/20/2026

Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 675 hours - this is the minimum number of hours the selected candidate must serve throughout the duration of their position.

• Segal Ameri Corps Education Award: $2,817.14 upon successful completion of position
• Weekly Living Allowance: $600.00 per week, fixed rate
• Relocation Allowance: $450.00 (distributed as a one-time lump sum with first paycheck)
• Student Loan Forbearance: if applicable (administered by My Ameri Corps , directly)
• Student Loan Interest Payments: if applicable (administered through My Ameri Corps , directly)

Preference given to applicants who submit applications before Sunday, February 15, 2026. Applications will be reviewed after the Final date to receive applications passes. Positions will close after receiving 60 complete applications, or at 11:59 p.m. EST on February 15, 2026, whichever occurs first.

This Interpretive Assistant is an Ameri Corps position. The purpose of Olympic National Park is to preserve for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people, the finest sample of primeval forests of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas-fir, and western red cedar in the entire U.S.; to provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for herds of native Roosevelt elk and other wildlife indigenous to the area;

to conserve and render available to the people, for recreational use, this outstanding mountainous country, containing numerous glaciers and perpetual snow fields, and a portion of the surrounding verdant forests together with a narrow strip along the beautiful Washington coast. The SIP participant will have opportunities to contribute to resource management issues in:
Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Communication & Education. Within these, the position will more specifically address: resource interpretation and education; social and scientific literacy; visitor services; natural and cultural processes; and, the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on park resources and systems. Concerning the latter, environment change is a significant threat to the park resources. Meanwhile, dam removal and watershed/fisheries restoration are ongoing park projects that seek to remove or mitigate destructive human impacts to the park and its resources and restore natural and cultural values to the landscape.

Understanding and communicating these issues to park visitors and stakeholders is a primary interpretive message for park staff. The SIP will help educate and prepare the visiting public with the tools and techniques (including civil discourse) to appreciate, observe, and protect natural and cultural resources and processes within the park and in their local communities.

The SIP's position will be in and around the Port Angeles area of Olympic National Park under the Division of Interpretation, Education, and Volunteers, primary emphasis for this position will be placed on resource interpretation, communication, and visitor services that highlight the park’s management priorities, fundamental resource values, and primary interpretive themes.

The SIP participant will have opportunities to interact with field scientists, resource managers, resource interpreters, and visitors to conduct primary and secondary research related to the park’s natural and cultural/historical resources.

The SIP will develop and present at least two different interpretive programs or products to visiting audiences on multiple occasions throughout the busy summer season, as well as provide frontline customer services at visitor contact stations.

The SIP will gain a basic understanding of the National Park Service (NPS) organizational structure, and of current professional standards concerning the NPS Foundations of Interpretation, including…