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SEARCH RESULTS 14 Opportunities Found
Opportunity Description: Do you enjoy physical, outdoor labor in which the duties vary with the seasons? We are looking for someone who is dependable, enjoys gardening, and is willing to learn historical plants of either the 18th or 19th centuries. Physical requirements include: fitness & agility, lifting, kneeling, bending over, outdoor work in a variety of weather conditions (heat, humid, cold, windy). Activities include, but are not limited to: weeding, watering, grooming, planting, light trimming, pruning, deadheading, ability to listen- learn- follow instructions. A basic knowledge of garden tools is necessary. The Wick Garden an 18th century garden is located in the Jockey Hollow Unit of the park, Tempe Wick Road. Park volunteers garden with association of the Herb Society of Northern New Jersey. Garden volunteers meet on Tuesday mornings, 9am to 12pm. The Cross Estate Garden a 19th century garden is located in the New Jersey Brigade Area of the park, Hardscrabble Road. Park volunteers garden with association of the Cross Estate Garden Historical Foundation. Garden volunteers meet on Wednesday mornings, 9am to 12pm.
Opportunity Description: We offer unpaid internships at Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Interns get a wide range of experiences by working with both the curatorial and interpretation/education divisions. This means that you may work with museum collections behind the scenes, as well as provide visitor services, such as giving tours. Interpretation and education staff works closely with the public by providing informational assistance. They share the many stories of Thomas Edison, his family, and activity at both the Laboratory Complex and his home, Glenmont. You may assist curatorial staff at Glenmont and/or the Laboratory Complex with collections activities such as museum housekeeping, inventorying, photographing collections, cataloging objects, and creating temporary exhibits. Interns attend a multi-day orientation for new staff, and have the opportunity to attend additional training, field trips, and tours. Housing Availability: Not Available 
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Opportunity Description: Field interpretive volunteers work closely with the public. They share the many stories of Thomas Edison, his family at Glenmont, and activity at the Laboratory Complex. Information is acquired by the volunteer through training and publications available at hand. This job requires professionalism, and interpretive and communication skills developed by the volunteer. Volunteers provide tours alone and side by side with park ranger staff to fulfill the mission of the National Park Service.
Housing Availability: Not Available
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Opportunity Description: Visitor services volunteers work closely with the public by answering questions and providing direction, both in person and by telephone. This may occur in the Garden Shop at Thomas Edison's estate Glenmont or the Visitor Center at the Laboratory Complex. Information is acquired by the volunteer through training, publications available at hand as well as through life experience. This job requires professionalism and communication skills developed by the volunteer. Volunteers are expected to work side by side with park ranger staff to fulfill the mission of the National Park Service. Housing Availability: Not Available
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Opportunity Description: Volunteers will assist Curatorial staff at Glenmont and/or the Laboratory Complex with collections activities such as museum housekeeping, inventorying, photographing collections, cataloging objects, and creating temporary exhibits in the period rooms at Glenmont, the Home of Thomas Edison. Projects can be designed for short term or long term assistance. Work is scheduled Monday through Friday.
Housing Availability: Not Available
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Opportunity Description: Volunteers will assist with maintaining the grounds and greenhouse of Thomas Edison's home Glenmont. Volunteers will be responsible for having a good knowledge of plants and gardening procedures and will be required to use a variety of hand and power tools associated with gardening work, such as seeders, edgers, hedge trimmers, pruning shears, loppers and sprayers.
Housing Availability: Not Available
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Opportunity Description: Clear, maintain and repair hiking and equestrian trails in Jockey Hollow Encampment Unit, Fort Nonsense and in the New Jersey Brigade areas. The park consists of nearly 27 miles of hiking trails, many of moderate to easy hilly terrain. Work necessary will involve walking, bending and lifting on uneven ground. Trail Maintainers are assigned a trail in which to perform the following duties: - clear brush and limbs along trails and around buildings - pick-up litter along hiking trails and roadways Monthly Trail Project Mornings are the second Saturday of each month, beginning April 10th, May 8th, June 5th for National Trails Day, July 10th, August14th, September 11th, October 9th, and ending the season on November 13th. Each of these Trail Project Morning dates begin with briefings at 9AM at the Jockey Hollow Visitor Center.
Opportunity Description: Volunteers will assist in the direct, hands-on management of various Administrative documents at Edison NHS. Primary duties are to assist the Administration and Facility Management Divisions as needed. Administration volunteers will assist with various work assignments involving, filing, typing, arranging binders, logging documents, mini projects in preparation for upcoming events such as training, purging fiscal files, answering phones, preparing outgoing mail, etc.; archiving documents; and assisting other disciplines within the Site as needed. Work is scheduled Wednesdays and Fridays.
Opportunity Description: Volunteers will provide tours of the new exhibit in the newly restored historic Ferry Building on Ellis Island. Volunteers will also provide information on the rehabilitation of the south side of Ellis Island at the information desk in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Save Ellis Island is a partner of the Statue of Liberty NM and Ellis Island. For more information on Save Ellis Island go to www.saveellisisland.org
Opportunity Description: Volunteers provide information and visitor services working as a guide at Ellis Island. 1)Information Volunteer: Assists at information desk on Ellis Island by providing information to park visitors and handing out park publications and other written materials. Assists with Lost & Found Property Reports. 2) Ferry Dock Orientation Volunteer: Welcomes arriving visitors to Ellis Island. Provides answers to visitor questions about their visit. 3) Roving Information Volunteer: Provides information to park visitors as they rove the walkways and museum on Ellis Island. Alerts Park Rangers of any problems that arise from the visiting public or any hazard they may encounter. Other volunteer projects may include assisting with ongoing education programs and exhibits, assisting with clerical work, and any other appropriate and approved project of a volunteer's design.
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