FUL - Park Guide

National Park Service; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

National Park Service in Hawaii seeks a Park Guide to provide visitor services, give talks, interpret natural and historic features, and guide tours. This on-site role may require working evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and shift work with on-call duties as needed.

You will serve as a FUL - Park Guide, delivering talks, guiding visitors, and offering miscellaneous assistance to park guests while upholding safety and interpretive standards at the site.

Responsibilities

• Give talks following a prescribed outline and applying broad subject matter knowledge of park features.
• Guide groups along fixed routes, keeping pace with schedules and ensuring the group stays together.
• Provide a wide range of visitor services, including assistance with lost articles, car trouble, or first aid; share information about weather, routes, and park facilities.

Job description

Open: August 24, 2026 — Closes: September 4, 2026

Summary

You will serve as a FUL - Park Guide. The primary purpose of this position is to provide guide services to visitors. The work involves giving talks, interpreting natural and historic features, answering questions, guiding tours, and providing miscellaneous services to visitors You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work.

Major Duties

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Utilize interpretive techniques (such as metaphors, storytelling, analogies) that invoke audience engagement and facilitate intellectual and/or emotional connections between audiences' interests and their surroundings Giving talks - Provides talks normally following a prescribed outline and requiring application of broad subject matter knowledge of the features of interest specific to the site. Guiding Parties - Guides individuals and groups along a fixed route and must keep the group together, maintain a pace which the group can keep up with and still conform to prescribed schedules. Providing services to visitors - Provides a wide range of services to visitors, including assistance with lost articles, car trouble, and first aid; and provides information about weather conditions, highway routes, park facilities, and orientation to the local area.