Museum Tour Guide
- Program stream:
- Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations
- Job title:
- Museum Tour Guide
- Organization name:
- Swallowtail Lighthouse
- Job location:
- Grand Manan, New Brunswick
- Length of assignment:
- 2018-06-24 to 2018-09-01 (10 weeks)
- Hourly wage:
- $11.25
Job description: Duties include greeting visitors to the historic site, museum and gift shop, conducting tours of the lighthouse, doing daily simple maintenance (dusting, sweeping and perhaps some outdoor work), preparing daily summaries of sales, tours, and total number of visitors, and learning about the site and the island.
Qualifications: The applicant must be friendly and open going and willing to learn a significant amount of information, come from a background of tourism, history, natural history, education, or a combination of these, have basic computer skills including Microsoft Office, and have excellent communication skills in English but we have many French speaking visitors, as well. The applicant must like to work with others in a partial outdoor location with a spectacular natural setting surrounded by the Bay of Fundy. Must be able to climb several flights of stairs and not have a fear of heights. Willing to use social media to promote the site regularly is helpful. Cell phone (Rogers and affiliates usually don't have service) is essential and a bicycle or vehicle is helpful. Applications will be accepted by email (swallowtail.lighthouse@gmail.com) or mail Swallowtail Keepers Society, 50 Lighthouse Road, Grand Manan, NB E5G 2A2 on or before June 1, 2018.
Swallowtail Keepers Society is a volunteer lead organization passionate about the lighthouse property and buildings, the promotion of the lighthouse, transmission of the historic information, and maintaining a safe, tidy, well-kept light station.
Grand Manan Island is located at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy with a population of about 2,400. An active fishing community reached by a daily ferry system with multiple trips per day, it is a picturesque, nature laden island first settled in 1785 but used seasonally by the First Nations for thousands of years. The island is well-known by bird watchers, whale watchers, hikers, kayakers, beach combers, artists and photographers. Most amenities are available including a hospital. Tourism is active in the summer with places to stay and a summer festival held by the Rotarians, a Summers End Folk Festival, an amazing community Museum and Archives, an Art Gallery and a Marine Research Station with a small Marine Natural History Museum. The Tourism Association website is grandmanannb.com; Village of Grand Manan Photo page has a link to the lighthouse webcams - http://villageofgrandmananc.netfirms.com/photos/. Low price, shared accommodations are available on the property if required.
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