Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) AmeriCorps Member with Homestead National Historical Park

 

 

Position Title:  Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) AmeriCorps Member with Homestead National Historical Park

Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements

Site Location: Homestead National Historical Park
8523 West State Hwy 4, Beatrice, NE 68310

Terms of Service: 18 weeks


* Start Date: 05/11/2026


* End Date: 09/11/2026


* Application Deadline: 04/05/2026


* Number of Positions Available: 1


* AmeriCorps Slot Classification: 675 Hours

Stewards Individual Placements & Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) Initiative:
Stewards Individual Placements provides individuals with AmeriCorps service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural and cultural resources.  The Youth Empowerment Steward (YES) initiative aims to increase access to the outdoors for all Americans.

Are you passionate about expanding access to public lands and creating welcoming outdoor experiences for all visitors? Do you believe everyone should have the opportunity to explore and enjoy our National Parks? Our health, our planet, and our collective future rely on variety – in thought, ability, experience, and ideas.  Join the Youth Empowerment Stewards (YES) program and contribute to strengthening park operations and enhancing the visitor experience by helping to remove barriers to outdoor access—ensuring that our national parks remain open, accessible, and welcoming to all Americans.

Homestead National Historical Park:
Homestead National Historical Park remembers the many legacies of the Homestead Act of 1862.

The Homestead Act gave individuals an opportunity to earn 160 acres of land from the federal government if they lived on the land for 5 years, built a shelter, and improved the land.

The Act lasted 163 years and settled ten percent of all land in the United States.

 

Role of YES Member at Hometown National Historical Site:
Homestead National Historical Park has a large collection of historic photographs taken during park activities.

The digital versions are currently only available to park staff on an internal server.

This YES Member will work toward updating the metadata related to the photos, which includes creating unique titles, updating descriptions, reviewing location tags, reformatting dates, and creating searchable keywords.

Once completed, the information and the scanned images will be added to NPGallery for the public to view and search for these records of the history of the park.

This work will ensure the images are 508 compliant and ready to be used in accessible ways in social media and on the webpage.

 
Description of Duties:

To achieve the goals of this YES position, the member will:


* ·       Create titles, update photo descriptions, and review alternative text for historical photographs

o   Create titles for images

o   Create descriptive caption for each image

o   Review photo descriptions and alternative text in the meta data spreadsheet


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