Below are the questions on our Resident Host and Park Stewardship Coordinator Application if you would like to prepare your answers in advance.
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1. Are you applying for this position as: ☐ a couple ☐ an individual? If you are applying as a couple, please include responses for both applicants in this form as appropriate. Note – if you are applying as a couple, it may be that both of your skills in combination cover all the requirements of the job. Sharing the responsibilities of the job is fine, however, one person must serve as Lead Host for a minimum of 30 hours per week. Please be clear about who is linked to each response you provide and who would be taking on specific responsibilities.
2. What excites you most about the job of working as our Resident Host and Park Stewardship Coordinator?
3. What part/s of the job would be most challenging?
4. Please describe any experience you have, if any, working on park caretaking projects.
5. Please describe any experience you have, if any, with gardening or landscape management.
6. Please describe any experience you have, if any, working with volunteers.
7. Please describe any experience you have, if any, working with high school youth and/or college students.
8. Please describe any experience you have, if any, serving in a facility caretaking role.
9. Tell us something about your home maintenance/repair skills.
10. Please describe briefly any of the Additional Desired Skills listed on the job description that you have. Please also describe briefly any other skills you have that you think could help further our mission.
11. Nearby Nature employees are part of a dynamic and creative team. Each member manages many responsibilities independently, but works frequently with others, sharing ideas, problem solving, and celebrating accomplishments. Tell us about any experience you have working as a team, professionally or personally, where each person “owns” their job, but also works collaboratively with others.
12. Preference for hiring a Resident Host and Park Stewardship Coordinator will go to candidates who are willing to make a long term commitment to the position. How long do you see yourself/yourselves serving in this position? Do you/either of you have plans to leave the area any time in the next few years?
13. Are there any times of the year when you regularly need to be out of town for a significant period of time (more than two weeks)? ☐ Yes ☐ No ☐Maybe If so, when?
14. Serving as Resident Host and Park Stewardship Coordinator requires you to be comfortable sharing the outdoor space around your house with other staff members and program participants during work week hours, and occasionally on weekends (with advance notice). Are you comfortable with this requirement? ☐Yes ☐ No Describe any experience you have living somewhere that involved sharing a yard or other outdoor space.
15. As our Resident Host and Park Stewardship Coordinator, you will live within easy walking/biking/driving distance of downtown Eugene, but in a park setting situated between a community garden and a natural area, and near the University of Oregon’s Football Stadium and the City of Eugene’s Cuthbert Amphitheater, Are you comfortable living in this sort of environment? ☐Yes ☐ No
16. Successful candidates for this job will need to pass a thorough background check. Our programs focus mainly on children and families. Is there anything that might come up in your background check/s that you would like to explain at this point? If yes or maybe, please provide details. ☐ Yes ☐ No ☐Maybe
17. All Eugene City Parks, including Alton Baker, as well as all of our facilities, including the Park Host Residence, are smoke-free. Will this work for you? ☐Yes ☐ No
18. Have you volunteered or worked with Nearby Nature in the past? ☐Yes ☐ No If so, when and on what sort of project?
19. Do you have any pets that you want to live with you in the Park Host Residence? ☐Yes ☐ No Please describe.
20. How did you find out about this job?
21. Is there anything else you would like us to know about you that will help us better understand your qualifications for and/or interest in the job?