Assistant Nature Center Manager

Essential Job Duties

• Recruit, hire, train, and supervise naturalist staff and volunteers; to include assigning work responsibilities, completing annual performance appraisals, monitoring budgets, and scheduling.
• Coordinate volunteer programs, facilitate regular volunteer meetings and training opportunities for continuing education.
• Develop, present and oversee special events, interpretive programs, school programs, and outdoor skills activities in person and virtually.
• Assist the nature center manager with decision making in regards to staff, facility, and grounds and serves as acting manager in their absence.
• Work closely with the administrative staff to schedule school groups, civic groups, and meeting requests. 
• Provide quality customer service including answering questions from the public on matters relating to natural history, Department functions, wildlife code interpretation, and conservation by phone, mail, email or in-person.
• Manage and approve time sheets, contracts, purchasing card logs, and other required reports.
• Assist with promotion of the Department and conservation thorough a variety of media including TV, radio, newspaper interviews. 
• Oversee and assist with work on native plant gardens, land/habitat management activities (invasive species removal) and managed hunts. 

Apply here: Assistant Nature Center Manager Job Details | MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION