Research & Interpretation (PLC) – ONSITE – First Ladies National Historic Site

Start/End Dates: May 26, 2025 – August 9, 2025 (11 weeks)
Compensation: $688 per week
Medical Insurance: Not provided
Application Due: February 7, 2025

The Latino Heritage Internship Program seeks to engage ethnically and racially diverse young professionals in natural resource careers.

Eligibility Requirement: 

• You must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident.
• No personal vehicle is required for this position.

Position Description: 

Despite becoming an official National Park Service site in 2000, permanent NPS interpretation, education, and visitor services staff have only been at the First Ladies National Historic Site since 2019. Slowly, the NPS IEVS staff has increased education and interpretation programs, including leading guided tours of the Saxton House. In fiscal year 2024, our staff and volunteers led 576 tours to 4,309 people. While our tours already expand the historical perspective of most of our visitors by focusing on a woman’s experience of the United States presidency, we believe there is enormous potential to make our narrative even more inclusive. Like most historic house tours, our story primarily focuses on the wealthy owners of the home and their family members. We would like to expand our interpretation to include the staff members employed by the family who worked in the Saxton House.

Qualifications:

The Research & Interpretation Intern’s main responsibility will be to:

• Conduct research on the staff who worked in the house and for President William McKinley and the Saxton family. This includes the domestic and medical staff who cared for Ida McKinley due to a chronic illness she had throughout her adulthood.
• Present the research on a regular basis in our division’s staff meetings. As the intern discovers more information, we want our other interpreters to be able to incorporate these new stories.
• Lead guided tours of the Saxton House. By leading tours, the intern will gain a better understanding of how to tell a fuller story and how to guide their research.
• The final deliverable will be a file uploaded to our site’s SharePoint with information about the domestic and medical staff of the family. Our National Park Service staff members will use this information to create interpretive panels for the Saxton House.

Interns in this program will receive 480 hours toward Public Land Corps (PLC) Hiring Authority. See below for information about PLC.

Public Land Corps Non-Competitive Hiring Authority (PLC)
The Public Land Corps Non-Competitive Hiring Authority is a special hiring authority available to qualifying interns. The intern must be between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, inclusive, or a veteran up to age 35 and complete 640 hours of work on an appropriate conservation project to be eligible for this hiring authority. Upon successful completion of the PLC project(s), the intern is eligible for two years to be hired non-competitively into a federal seasonal, term, or permanent position. The applicant must apply to a PLC-eligible position advertised on USAJobs.gov and selected off a non-competitive certificate of eligibility. For more information, see DOI Personnel Bulletins 11-02 , 12-13, and 17-03.

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