Stipend: $600/week ($15/hr)
Housing Stipend: $100/week
Internship Length: **** 20 weeks, full time (average 40 hrs/wk)
Number of Positions: 1
Application Deadline: **** 4/5/2024
Internship Start Date: 5/13/2024
Reports to: Interpretation and Education Program Manager of Keweenaw National Historical Park

YES (Youth Empowerment Stewards) Program: ****
Are you passionate about disability rights and accessibility in National Parks and public lands? Do you identify as having a disability yourself? Work with us and help increase access to the outdoors for everyone. Our health, our planet, and our collective future rely on diversity – in thought, ability, experience, and ideas. That’s why we need YOU. Become a Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) intern and help make the outdoors more accessible for all!

Keweenaw National Historical Park Interpretation and Education Intern: ****
Stewards Individual Placements, a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with AmeriCorps service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. YES interns focus on barriers to entry for individuals with disabilities in national park units. Stewards, in partnership with Keweenaw National Historical Park, are seeking a YES intern who will play a critical role in helping Keweenaw National Historical Park better serve our local communities by improving program accessibility for park visitors.

This YES Intern will refine and build on existing visitor activities and craft and facilitate new activities for park visitors. YES Intern will facilitate meaningful visitor experiences by helping a diverse group of visitors that engage in inquiry-based discovery by using games, facsimiles of records, and other hands-on activities that are designed to encourage interest in park themes. This position requires flexibility to ever-changing situations and comfort speaking in public and working with diverse groups of people.

The YES member will add important resources to the parks interpretive tools by creating hands-on learning activities for visitors of all ages using multiple learning styles and universal design techniques. The hands-on, multiple intelligences approach to activity design will create activities that will enable visitors to experience park stories in a way that they learn and remember best. A 2024 YES intern will add to the work started by the Summer 2023 YES intern, continuing to refine and build on the activities that were field tested last year as well as create prototypes of their own. A few examples left by the 2023 YES intern to continue the work she started include working with park staff to make in-person hands-on activities available online increasing accessibility through audio and video elements and creating a life-sized game board for a mining adventure board game where people are the playing pieces to involve kinesthetic learners or those who are not able to grip small playing pieces.

**Duties Include: **

• Work in the Calumet Visitor Center and provide orientation to park visitors, provide trip-planning assistance, and answer visitor questions

• Assist with Ranger programs and special events

• Research park stories and identify stories to highlight

• Research park themes using secondary and primary sources available in the park library, archives and museum collections

• Conduct primary source research in park archives and museum collections

• Refine and add onto as well as develop new hand-on activities that connect visitors to park stories, using universal design and multiple learning styles

• Learn about Multiple intelligences and universal design

• Evaluate park’s current visitor offerings to see what areas are strong and identify areas for improvement

• Using notes left from the 2023 YES intern, continue to build and improve on the activities that were field tested last summer

• Work with park staff to design new activities that connect to park themes to help engage visitors in new ways to the stories and concepts shared at Keweenaw National Historical Park

**Benefits: **

• Professional Development Opportunities

• Eligible for Public Lands Corps hiring authority upon completion

• Eligible for AmeriCorps Education Award upon completion

• Dedicated staff to ensure reasonable accommodations requests are met

• Membership opportunities and dedicated cohort/affinity meeting spaces

• Opportunity to make a big impact!

• Housing Assistance

Required Skills

• Have an interest in history, education, and/or interpretation

• Attend bi-weekly YES cohort meetings (online via Teams meetings) to collaborate with other YES interns, attend professional development presentations, and give a capstone presentation on your YES Internship project(s).

• To Be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident

• To be between the ages of 18-30, or a Veteran up to the age of 35

• Identify as having a disability or have a personal connection to the disability community

• Adaptability and capacity to work in a fluid environment

• Ability to communicate and collaborate in a variety of settings

• Interest in history, education, and/or interpretation

• Ability to have reliable transportation to work

• Basic computer skills

• Communication skills

• Drive to learn and experience new things!

**Preferred Qualifications: **

• Someone willing to share their ideas

• Strong communication skills

• Creative problem solver

• Organizational skills

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

_Conservation Legacy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage members of diverse groups to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, political affiliation, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application, interviewing, and/or onboarding process, please send your request to the hiring manager in your preferred method of communication. _

Required Experience

• Have an interest in history, education, and/or interpretation

• Attend bi-weekly YES cohort meetings (online via Teams meetings) to collaborate with other YES interns, attend professional development presentations, and give a capstone presentation on your YES Internship project(s).

• To Be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident

• To be between the ages of 18-30, or a Veteran up to the age of 35

• Identify as having a disability or have a personal connection to the disability community

• Adaptability and capacity to work in a fluid environment

• Ability to communicate and collaborate in a variety of settings

• Interest in history, education, and/or interpretation

• Ability to have reliable transportation to work

• Basic computer skills

• Communication skills

• Drive to learn and experience new things!

**Preferred Qualifications: **

• Someone willing to share their ideas

• Strong communication skills

• Creative problem solver

• Organizational skills

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

_Conservation Legacy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage members of diverse groups to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, political affiliation, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application, interviewing, and/or onboarding process, please send your request to the hiring manager in your preferred method of communication. _