Visitor experience student

Job description

Parks Canada protects and presents cultural and natural treasures to ensure ecological and commemorative integrity for present and future generations. The Quebec team manages the unique heritage jewels that are the Fortifications of Quebec, Forts-et-Chateaux-Saint-Louis, Cartier Brebeuf, Forts-de-Levis and Grosse-Île-et-le Memorial-des-Irlandais National Historic Sites.
Visitor experience students offer cultural heritage interpretation and animation services in both official languages to visitors to our sites. Their tasks are varied: greeting visitors, giving guided tours, animating in period costume, collecting admission fees, and so on. They have privileged contact with the local population and tourists. They are supported by an experienced team of tour guides and interpretation coordinators.

Do you enjoy working outdoors and interacting with tourists from all over the world? Then this is the job for you! What’s more, this job could provide you with a career springboard and open doors to long-term opportunities in a host of fields and across the country.

Paid training and a uniform are provided.

Required experience and qualifications

Conditions of employment
• Duration of employment: Variable between mid-May and end of August, with possibility of part-time extension until mid-October (Thanksgiving).
• Type of employment: Full-time or part-time
• Work schedule: Daytime on weekdays and weekends
• Salary: Hourly rate between $17.83 and $22.71 depending on level of education completed + isolated shift prime of $1.97/hr at Grosse-Île (Increase to come on May 1).
Requirements
• Be studying full-time or part-time in the winter of 2024 in a college or university program.
• Return to full-time or part-time studies in fall 2024.
• Reside and be legally entitled to work in Canada.
• Speak French and English.
• Excellent communication, judgment, customer focus and learning skills.

Job posting period

Until 2024-02-09 at 15:05