Seasonal Landscape Architect: River Park Planning

National Park Service; Yankton (SD); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Park Service's Missouri National Recreational River in Yankton, SD seeks an advisor to support landscape management activities. The typical focus includes site inventories, policy research, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

The successful candidate will work closely with park divisions, develop conceptual site plans for camping areas, trails, and river access, and communicate findings to the Park Superintendent and partners.

Responsibilities

• Conducts site and visual inventories of river areas and develop visitor use site analysis.
• Creates conceptual site plans on many park projects including camping areas, trails, river access, scenic overlooks trailhead areas.
• Sketches solutions for daily park projects and operations, as well as draw site plans, sections, perspectives and plan view maps on a weekly basis.
• Enhances communication between park natural resource division and park facility staff and contributes to communications with local park partners.
• Works with all park divisions and reports directly to the Park Superintendent.

Job description

The National Park Service's Missouri National Recreational River in Yankton, SD seeks an advisor to support landscape management activities. The typical focus includes site inventories, policy research, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

The successful candidate will work closely with park divisions, develop conceptual site plans for camping areas, trails, and river access, and communicate findings to the Park Superintendent and partners.