La Junta, CO - Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site has an opening for a permanent park guide. If you are interested in working for the National Park Service, helping the public, doing historic demonstrations, interpreting, and protecting America’s natural resources, this may be the opportunity for you. Pay starts at $36,118.00 and ranges up to $47,781.00 / per year.
Work is performed predominantly outdoors at the fort with exposure to extreme temperatures, rain, snow, and or wind. This is an active position, requiring lots of walking, bending, and sometimes lifting heavy objects. The applicant must be comfortable working around farm animals and livestock.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site features a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post on the mountain branch of the Santa Fe Trail, where traders, trappers, travelers, and tribes came together for trade. If you enjoy history, working with people, learning skills like historic carpentry, blacksmithing, and open fire cooking, and love the national parks, this position might be for you.
To apply visit https://www.usajobs.gov/job/655934500. This is a joint listing with two other parks, so please select Bent’s Old fort when applying. All applications must be submitted online through USAJobs.gov. Mailed, faxed, or hand delivered applications to Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site cannot be accepted. For additional information about Bent’s Old Fort or the application process, please call Interpretation and Visitor Services Supervisor Alicia Lafever at 719-383-5051.
To learn more about working in the National Park service, please visit www.nps.gov/aboutus/index.htm.
Information about Bent’s Old Fort National Historic site, can be found at https://www.nps.gov/beol/index.htm.
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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
