FUL - Park Guide

US National Park Service; Waipahu (HI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

US National Park Service is seeking a Park Guide to provide visitor services, deliver talks, interpret natural and historic features, answer questions, and guide tours. The role may include on-call shifts, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime, and shift work.

Minimum qualifications include a GS-05 level with specialized experience, or a 4-year degree with related coursework, or a combination with transcripts. Volunteer experience is credited as applicable.

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience Requirement: at least one full year at GS-4 level in public/private sector demonstrating information sharing and education; leading groups of varied backgrounds; performing admin tasks; include hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Provide guide services to visitors, give talks, interpret natural and historic features, answer questions, guide tours, and provide miscellaneous services.

Education

Bachelor's degree with courses related to the occupation

Job description

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.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-09/04/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. All candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements.

To receive credit for experience, your resume MUST state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications:

To qualify for this position at the GS-05 grade level:

• Specialized Experience Requirement: you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: working at a visitor center, museum, school, or other similar setting that involves the sharing of information and educating others; leading children or adults in interactive activities in a classroom, museum, park, or other outdoor or learning institutional setting; working with groups and individuals from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, ages and socioeconomic levels; and performing administrative tasks including tracking visitor interactions, registering program participants, implementing building opening or closing procedures. You must include hours per week worked.

-OR-

• Education: Successful completion of at least 4-year course of study above high school leading to a bachelor's degree with courses related to the occupation. You must include transcripts.

-OR-

• Combination of education and experience: To combine education and experience, first take the excess of the first 60 semester hours leading toward a bachelor's degree and divide by 60. Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include transcripts.

Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.