Assistant Interpretive Ranger

Assistant Interpretive Ranger

Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site

Part-time, average of 28-32 hours per week

Primarily Thursday – Monday work schedule, typically 10:30am-4:30pm with some occasional evening hours

Starting $10.00/hour

Job Description:

The Assistant Interpretive Ranger will work closely with Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site staff to provide daily tours, assist with customer service and park operations, and help facilitate special programs. The ideal candidate will have an interest in history and the ability to speak in front of a group. We will offer on-site training for tours and help develop skills in historic site interpretation, research, and programming! This position is an entry-level, training position that will provide a range of valuable historic site work experience and prepare the selected candidate for further academic studies or a future full-time benefited position in the field of Public History or Museum Studies.

Job duties for this position include:

1. Assist with leading tours of the historic site.

2. Assist with retail operations and visitor experience, including greeting visitors and giving them general site knowledge and working on a point-of-sales system to ring people up for gift shop items.

3. Assist with general housekeeping of visitor center and historic structures.

4. On occasion help with special events and programs, usually once per month.

5. Use primary source documents to improve working knowledge of site.

This is a non-benefited position. Work is in varying weather conditions; the historic structures are not climate controlled.

General Site Information:

Redcliffe Plantation, completed in 1859, was once the home of James Henry Hammond, three generations of his descendants, and numerous African-American families like the Henleys, Goodwins, and Wigfalls who worked at the site as enslaved laborers and later as free men and women. Now one of the many historic plantations South Carolina has opened to the public, this site encompasses the ambition, wealth and power of James Henry Hammond as well as the injustices and suffering forced on the hundreds of enslaved peoples who were forced to live and work on the land. A successful cotton planter, congressman, governor and senator, Hammond spent his life defending the southern plantation system and his status within it. Tours are offered Thursday – Monday at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm and take place between the historic home for enslaved people and an 1859 Greek Revival mansion.

Please submit a resume to redcliffe@scprt.com consideration. For questions about the position, email redcliffe@scprt.com or call 803-827-1473.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: From $10.00 per hour

Expected hours: 28 – 32 per week

Schedule:

• Evenings as needed
• Every weekend
• Holidays

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Beech Island, SC 29842 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Beech Island, SC 29842: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $10