Location: Mansfield,LA, USA
LOCATION AND POSITION INFORMATION:
This position is located at Mansfield State Historic Site in Mansfield, LA.
If offered the position, candidate must be able to drive to Baton Rouge to submit a background check.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
This position is in a Career Progression Group up to an Interpretive Ranger 2. As part of a Career Progression Group, vacancies may be filled from this recruitment as an Interpretive Ranger 1 or 2 based on the qualifications of the selected applicant. Please refer to the Class Specifications page by clicking here, for specific information of salary ranges, minimum qualifications and job concepts for each level.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the Apply link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
* Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*
AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS THE FOLLOWING COMPETENCIES:
Displaying Expertise: The ability to exhibit specialized skills or knowledge gained from experience or training
Learning Actively: The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals.
Managing Resources: The ability to ensure resources such as time, money, and people are utilized appropriately to result in maximum business value.
Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
Displaying Professionalism: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.
Driving Vision and Purpose: The ability to consistently communicate a compelling picture of the vision and purpose of the organization.
Exhibiting Social Awareness: The ability to identify and adapt your actions based on the situation and the personality, behavior, and emotions of others.
Focusing on Customers: The ability to serve the needs of those who support and/or rely on the services provided.
This vacancy will be filled using the Historic Option.
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor and the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism are participants in the E-Verify system for identification and employment eligibility purposes.
Louisiana as a State, is a Model Employer for People with Disabilities.
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Melissa Thibodaux
Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
1051 N. 3rd Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Fax: (225) ###-####
...@crt.la.gov
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A baccalaureate degree.
SUBSTITUTIONS:
Each position is either a historical or naturalist type. Depending on the duties of the position to be filled, one of the following will substitute:
1. For historical positions, sub-professional experience in the excavation, classification, or preservation of artifacts; in archival work; in historical writing; or in planning and/or presenting interpretive/educational programs dealing with cultural or physical history, will substitute for the required degree on the basis of thirty semester hours for one year of experience.
2. For naturalist positions, sub-professional experience in conservation work or natural resource management, or in planning and/or presenting interpretive/educational programs dealing with the natural environment, will substitute for the required degree on the basis of thirty semester hours for one year of experience.
NOTE:
In substituting for the degree, experience in which the qualifying duties were intermittent or incidental will not be considered as qualifying.
In substituting for the degree, part-time experience will be prorated against a forty-hour work week.
NOTE:
Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited school or university.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
Employee will be expected to attain and/or maintain certification as an Interpretive Guide awarded by the National Association for Interpretation, or an equivalent certification recognized by the Office of State Parks.
Some positions also require certification as a black powder demonstrator.
FUNCTION OF WORK:
To provide site interpretation to park visitors through guided tours, audio-visual presentations, living history demonstrations and other methods.
LEVEL OF WORK:
Entry.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Direct supervision from a Park Manager. Alternative reporting relationships may be approved by SCS.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
May provide functional supervision over museum, visitor center or site personnel as conditions warrant.
LOCATION OF WORK:
Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism - Office of State Parks. Other locations may be approved by SCS.
JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from Park Rangers by the absence of enforcement responsibility and P.O.S.T. certification.
Differs from Interpretive Ranger 2 by the absence of experienced interpretive duties.The purpose of this position is to educate the public on the natural and cultural resources of the stat and to cultivate, protect, and utilize historical artifacts in support of state parks and state historic sites.
30% Site Coordination
* Works closely with Administrative Office Educational Services and Public Information teams, and site management to review programs and exhibits for historical accuracy and interpretive value.
* Ensures that site programming is consistent with overall site-specific goals and focus.
* Performs routine maintenance on trails and associated grounds for guest safety, which requires the use of associated equipment.
* Performs various tasks related to program delivery and site safety such as moving canoes & kayaks, etc., which may include lifting up to 50 lbs.
* Works with site management in necessary cross training to ensure efficient site operations.
30% Interpretive Services
* Conceptualizes, designs, coordinates, and develops new educational programs, interpretive exhibits, audiovisuals, and trails.
* Implements site level educational programs and interpretive activities to connect visitors to the site.
* Works with educational institutions to provide related interpretive activities for school groups.
* Self-evaluates program offerings to ensure consistency and high quality.
* Responsible for recording program effectiveness and reporting program evaluations and
participation numbers to the OSP Administrative Office.
* Initiates, conducts, and r view original research on natural and/or cultural resources relevant to the site and prepares a detailed Interpretive Prospectus plan for utilizing the natural and/or cultural resources of the site in active educational offerings.
* May attend national and/or regional training to enhance program offerings.
20% Program Promotions
* Works closely with Public Information teams in gathering, preparing, and disseminating
information about the site to the media and directly to the public.
* Conducts research for an drafts press releases for publication.
* Answers correspondence from media sources as well as the general public.
* Writes, prepares, layouts edits, and produces a variety of promotional and informational
materials such as brochures, flyers, and event programs.
* Collaborates with departmental agency personnel as well as outside agencies in the update and/or revision of existing promotional and informational materials.
* Works with site management to promote special programs throughout the year.
* Delivers speeches, lectures, and audiovisual programs throughout the community to professional organizations, school representatives, public and private clubs or groups, businesses, and governmental bodies to enhance the interest of the general public in both the site and its activities.
* Establishes and develops partnerships with community based groups, such as schools, civic and social organizations, and relate organizations for the purpose of encouraging use of State Parks educational and fee based offerings in the State Parks system while promoting the generation of revenue.
10% Archives & Records Maintenance
* Maintains detailed computerized and hard copy databases of site's historic collections inventory.
* Oversees standardized cataloging of the site's historic collections.
* Regularly performs conservation and preservation maintenance on site's historic collection items.
* Identifies priority items for conservation.
* Tracks loans & donations.
10% Grounds & Building Maintenance
* Assists with custodial duties as needed inside site facilities. Including but not limited to,
sweeping, mopping, stocking restrooms, dusting, cleaning glass, etc.
* Assists with care of the site grounds including but not limited to use of mowers, weed eaters, blowers, rakes, pressure washers, etc.
Performs other related duties as assigned and performs customer service to a high degree of excellence.