Yosemite National Park is Now Recruiting for Summer Seasonal Positions

Approximately 300 jobs to be filled over the next several months

Yosemite National Park has approximately 300 seasonal job openings for the summer of 2018. There are positions open in all areas of the park. In addition to Yosemite, there are seasonal jobs opportunities at many of the over 400 National Park Service units across the country.

The park will be filling a wide variety of positions, including backcountry rangers, entrance station rangers, custodial services, forestry technicians, utility systems operators, administrative assistants, traffic control rangers, and more. The jobs range in pay from $16 to $22 an hour.

All open job announcements and detailed position descriptions are posted online at http://www.usajobs.gov beginning now through the end of January 2018. To see information on all available positions in Yosemite, search for “National Park Service” and “Yosemite National Park.” Each job announcement will be posted for up to 5 business days. Some positions do have application limits ranging from 50 to 100 applicants.

All applications must be submitted through www.usajobs.gov. Applicants may create a profile on the website in advance to save time once the hiring process begins, which is highly recommended.

Yosemite National Park welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds across our nation. The Federal Government offers unique hiring paths (also known as a hiring authority) to help hire individuals that represent our diverse society. If you fall under one of these groups of people you may be eligible to receive preference when applying for jobs.

More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for America’s 413 national park sites, and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities.

All candidates interested in working at Yosemite National Park in the summer 2018 are encouraged to frequently visit www.usajobs.gov to view the latest job announcements.

Finding housing near the park might be an issue:

Short-Term Rental Boom Leaves Yosemite Struggling to Fill Jobs
By Ezra David Romero
October 30, 2017

Short-term rental websites are changing the communities near Yosemite National Park.

The booming vacation rental market is creating a shortage of places for locals to rent for the long-term, and in some cases it’s contributing to the area’s homeless problem. And now the growing lack of long-term rentals is causing a hiring issue in Yosemite.

It takes an army of people to keep Yosemite National Park’s facilities tidy from the constant barrage of tourists — 4 million people are expected to visit this year, with the majority in the summer months. This spring Ron Borne, with the maintenance division of the park, was on track to hire a full custodial staff.

“Of 30 seasonal custodial workers that we had positions, with funds, we were only able to fill 17 of those positions,” say Borne.

He couldn’t fill 10 percent of his workforce of about 300 people — custodians, trail crews, maintenance crews — when they chose to not work in the park because of the lack of rentals in the area. One of his employees was recently in the process of trying to rent a house in Mariposa County.

“They were negotiating and the owner came back and said, ‘No, I’m sorry. I can’t rent to you because I can make my mortgage as an Airbnb. So, I’m sorry, I cannot do a long-term rental agreement.’”


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