Coastal Stewards - Student

Duties
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is seeking independent and highly motivated students to work within a team of Coastal Stewards in the Resource Conservation department. These stewards will also collaborate with Visitor Experience, Visitor Safety, and other team members, as required for their work. The primary duties are to patrol the coastal areas of the Long Beach Unit to provide prevention and education messaging related to common coastal risk factors to visitors. Duties will include assisting in delivering coastal safety/CoastSmart programs through prevention, education, and outreach activities. The students will engage visitors, stakeholders and outdoor enthusiasts to promote personal preparedness and encourage safe practice of outdoor activities.Coastal Stewards will be exposed to significant visitor safety incidents. The team provides early incident recognition, reports emergency situations to higher trained response staff, and provides scene support during serious incidents.As part of our fun and dynamic team, you will be ensuring compliance with Parks Canada regulations throughout their shifts. Ultimately our goal is to provide a safe aquatic environment and a quality visitor experience for all park reserve users. This is a fast paced, challenging and engaging work environment. You will be working outdoors in all conditions, with variable shifts. If you enjoy working outside while promoting coastal safety, and feel that your knowledge, skills and abilities would be a good fit for this position, we would like to hear from you!

Work environment
✨Parks Canada is a federal government agency responsible for the protection and presentation of Canada’s outstanding natural and cultural resources through a system of national parks, national marine conservation areas and national historic sites in all regions of Canada.Are you motivated and energetic? A strong communicator? Do you enjoy nature? A summer job as a Parks Canada team member might be the right for you!🏆The Parks Canada team is proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of Canada’s Best Employers (2024).

Intent of the process
The intent of this process is to hire students for the summer of 2026. We will only contact candidates who demonstrate clearly in the screening follow up questions that they meet the requirements for this opportunity.The results may be used in the future to fill other vacancies that may arise in Coastal BC Field Unit, in various locations, with full or part-time hours for various tenures, depending on the status of the selected candidate.

Important messages
📌The Parks Canada Agency is established as a separate employer in the Federal Public Service under the Financial Administration Act. Persons appointed to the Agency continue to be part of the Public Service. The Parks Canada Agency operates under its own human resources framework outside of the Public Service Employment Act and in line with values of fairness, competence and respect, and its operating principles.📌Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.📌Travel cost for individuals who are not Federal Public Servants will not be covered.📌Parks Canada housing may be not available for all locations. Employees are responsible for their own housing, food, transportation and other costs. Employees are responsible for their own transportation to and from work.📌You may be assessed using a variety of assessment tools, such as, but not limited to: written exams, interviews, reference checks, recent and past performance assessments, self-assessments, and candidate achievement records, among others. All information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the candidates.

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• Obtain and maintain Reliability Status security clearance (done at the time of hiring)
• Possession and maintenance of a valid Class 5 Drivers License

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• Willingness to use safe work practices (training and terms of use provided)
• Willingness to wear the appropriate Parks Canada uniform, including identifier clothing and personal safety equipment
• Willingness to work outdoors and stand/walk for extended periods of time (sometimes in adverse weather conditions)
• Willingness to work irregular hours, overtime, weekends, and/or statutory holidays and provincial/territorial holidays, when required
• Willingness to work and/or travel in varied terrain and weather by various means of transportation.
• Willingness to perform under reasonable physical stresses (i.e. hiking, walking, lifting, pushing or pulling, etc.)
• Ability and willingness to assist during emergency situations

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💼 EXPERIENCE:
• Experience conducting field work/and or working outdoors
• Experience interacting with the public in a prevention/education context
• Experience in coastal recreation activities such as surf sports, kayaking, hiking etc.

📚 KNOWLEDGE:
• Knowledge of the drowning prevention chain and risk management strategies
• Knowledge of the coastal environment and associated hazards
• Knowledge of the Pacific Rim region

💡ABILITIES:
• Work within a team environment
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing
• Follow procedures and protocols
• Recognize risky visitor behaviour and address unsafe conditions
• Assist in response to emergency situations, and perform under stress

⭐ PERSONAL SUITABILITY:
• Exercises sound judgement
• Is responsible/accountable
• Personally connects with others

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Applied / assessed at a later date

Various language requirements - .
• English essential
• French as a second language is an asset

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OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS*:
• Standard First Aid certification
• Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) "Basic Rescuer"
• A valid Canadian National Lifeguard Service (NLS) Certification
• Possession of Aquatic Emergency Care, Wilderness First aid, Emergency Medical Responder or Emergency Medical Technician certifications
• Incident Command System 100
• Bronze Cross
• Bronze Medallion*Copies of current certifications may be required at time of hiring.

📝 ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• Experience working, volunteering, planning and/or coordinating public events

📝 ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE:
• Knowledge of the CoastSmart campaign

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