Interpretive Host

Provides assistance to park interpretive staff with emphasis on interpreting the area’s natural and cultural resources, environmental education, visitor safety, and resource protection.

Host assignments typically require a three month commitment.

DUTIES:

Hosts may perform all of the following services:

• Greet and provide orientation and interpretive opportunities for visitors entering the intertidal (tidepool) area. These orientations enable visitors to utilize low impact skills and remain safe while exploring this fragile area.
• Provide visitors with area information and answer questions at the Interpretive Center desk.
• Provide informal interpretation of visible marine mammals, sea birds and other wildlife while staffing “interpretive resource tables” located at outdoor viewpoints within the park.
• Greet and inform visitors at the entrance station and direct them to automated fee machine.
• Assist staff in opening and closing the site.

DUTY SCHEDULE:

Volunteer Hosts must be flexible enough to handle variations in work routines caused by weather, shifting priorities, tides, and visitor needs. Host couples will usually be scheduled to work the same shifts. However, they will not usually be located at the same facility or program area. For example, one partner may be staffing the tidepools while the other is at the interpretive center.

Duty hours normally occur during daylight hours. However, on occasion, hosts may be scheduled for closing shifts, special evening events and occasionally split shifts. Hosts almost always work weekends and holidays.

Each adult host living on-site will be expected to contribute a minimum of 20 hours per week. Hosts are typically scheduled for a four to five hour shift at the interpretive center, tidepools or wildlife observation decks. Many assignments are completed outdoors, in all kinds of weather.

COMPENSATION: 

An RV campsite with a view of the Pacific Ocean is provided free of charge for hosts. The three modern RV sites have complete hookups (50 amp, 35 amp, 110 volt, sewer), and picnic tables.