Naturalist Seasonal

Job Duties

• Interpretation and Education
  • Frontline interpretation through roving, ensuring positive guest interactions and managing guest behaviors and needs.
  • Leading daily and impromptu tours, talks, tabling, and animal encounters
  • Educate during field trips and educational events
     
  • Represent AWCC at outreach events
     
  • Assist with the development and maintenance of the education department
• Sanctuary Presentability and Safety
  • Planting, weeding, and harvesting in garden beds
  • Ensure trash does not find its way into animal habitats
  • Inventory and pull invasive plant species on property
  • Clean interpretive signs and buildings
  • Respond to guest incidents and address behaviors to ensure safety for guests and wildlife
• Animal Care
  • Assist in care of resident wildlife, especially program and encounter species
  • Other husbandry duties as assigned
• Research
  • Assist with the Alaska Beluga Monitoring Program as an Cook Inlet beluga whale observer
     
• Interns
  • Support and coach interns facilitating programming
  • Supervise interns in absence of senior education staff
• Workdays and hours assigned by Director of Education and Naturalist Supervisor will vary by week; full 40 hours and 5 days per week, maximum 8 hours per day.
• Other duties as assigned