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 🔗Big Cypress National Preserve Archive/Records Intern – 800 hours

  • Internship
  • NCPE Internship
  • Homestead, FL
  • $18.50 USD / Hour
  • Applications have closed
  • Department: South Florida Collections Management Center in Everglades National Park
  • Job Reference #: 4089b
  • Job Qualifications:

    A successful applicant will have excellent writing skills and be seeking a degree in information and library or archival science, history, or an allied field, or be a recent graduate. Basic computer skills are needed, including experience with Microsoft Office software. The South Florida Collections Management Center is looking for an independent worker, with good communication and interpersonal skills, and a willingness to learn about the National Park Service units in South Florida.

     

  • How to Apply:

    Click on the application button at this listing and follow the instructions to apply online.

  • Job benefits: Paid Time Off (PTO), Housing Allowance
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: Ability to lift 50 pounds
  • Application Email: waso_cr-intern@nps.gov

Website National Park Service/NCPE Internship Program

The South Florida Collections Management Center (SFCMC) is a multi-park museum program for Big Cypress National Preserve, De Soto National Memorial, and Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, and Everglades National Parks. The center coordinates the acquisition and preservation of museum and archive collections, which support research and park interpretive needs. Although located inside Everglades National Park, the SFCMC provides long-term museum planning for all five National Park Service units in south Florida.

The National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE)’s Internship Program is a partnership with the National Park Service and other Federal agencies with cultural resource protection and public land management responsibilities. The purpose of the program is to accomplish needed and important work on federally protected lands while providing program participants with professional experience in their chosen fields. Interns work under the guidance of agency staff who are subject area experts to carry out the mission of the park.

To be eligible, applicants must be between 18 and 30 years old (or 35 if a veteran) when starting the internship, a college student or recent graduate (within the past 12 months at the time of application), enrolled in a degree-seeking program, and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

Big Cypress National Preserve is centrally located between Miami and Naples in southern Florida. It encompasses 729,000 acres of a largely freshwater wetland ecosystem offering refuge to a wide variety of plants and animals. The preserve was established for the preservation, conservation, and protection of the natural, scenic, hydrologic, floral and faunal, and recreational values of the Big Cypress watershed, and to provide for the enhancement of public enjoyment. Established as one of the first national preserves, Big Cypress represents a unique management concept where resource protection, public recreation, and specific uses stipulated within its enabling legislation are managed concurrently.

The South Florida Collections Management Center (SFCMC) is located near Everglades National Park’s Homestead entrance, in close proximity to the City of Miami and the Florida Keys.

The intern will be supervised by the SFCMC’s curator and will work closely with other interns, museum professionals, and archival team members. The successful candidate will gain experience in conducting surveys of federal records, archival preservation and housing techniques and methodologies, integrated pest management techniques, environmental monitoring, and archival research. SFCMC team members work collaboratively on projects focused on increasing the accessibility of museum and archival collections for the public.

The overall goal of the internship is to preserve and make accessible federal records related to the ongoing preservation and protection of natural and cultural resources in the park. Specific duties include appraising park records for disposition, processing and rehousing permanent records, digitizing records, digital record organization under an existing framework, and conducting research in park archives.

A background security investigation may be required prior to the start date. All NCPE internships accrue 4 hours of PTO for every 80 hours worked.

Qualified NCPE interns who complete their internships may count their position towards earning a Public Land Corps (PLC) Non-Competitive Hiring Authority certificate.  Once earned, the PLC certificate may be used to apply for eligible Federal permanent, temporary, or term positions. Visit https://preservenet.org/ncpe-internships/ for details about this benefit. Successful completion of the internship does not guarantee Federal employment.