GIS Cultural and Natural Resources Steward-AmeriCorps (Hot Springs National Park)

                                                        

 

Position Title: GIS Cultural and Natural Resources Steward – AmeriCorps

Conservation Legacy Program: Stewards Individual Placements

Site Location: Hot Springs National Park, 101 Reserve Street, Hot Springs, AR 71901

 Terms of Service:


* Start Date: 06/01/2026


* End Date: 11/13/2026


* AmeriCorps Slot Classification: 675 Hours

 Purpose:

Stewards Individual Placements (Stewards), a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with AmeriCorps service and career internship opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources.

Participants serve with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits to provide institutional capacity, develop community relationships, and support ecosystem health.

Stewards in partnership with the NPS GIS office is hosting a cohort of GIS stewards.

Hot Springs National Park is a 5,500-acre area in Hot Springs, Arkansas, that preserves geothermal spring water and resources related to hydrotherapy and therapeutic bathing.

First set aside as Hot Springs Reservation in 1832 and renamed a national park in 1921, the park is among the oldest protected areas in the United States.

The park cares for significant natural and cultural resources, including Bathhouse Row National Historic Landmark District, featuring eight bathhouses built between 1892 and 1923, the Libbey Memorial Physical Medicine Center, Whittington Park, Gulpha Gorge Campground, and the surrounding parklands that provide opportunities for public health and wellness activities.

 

The HOSP Resources division manages the cultural and natural resources of the park, while the Facilities Maintenance division manages the buildings, utilities, roads, trails, and grounds within the park.

The steward will work with personnel from both divisions but would be located within the Resources Division office in the historic Lamar Bathhouse.

 

The goals for the project are quite simple:


* Complete several vital CR/NR tasks that will increase productivity, data usability, and personnel safety


* Give real-world work experience to a student interested in working for the NPS


* Improve the function of park Maintenance and Resources divisions

Description of Duties:

The GIS steward will work with the park’s Resources Program and Maintenance division.

The project may include GIS modernization of legacy data sets (old shapefiles), working with existing NPS Standard authoritative datasets, web and mobile GIS, improving mobile GIS workflow, improving and providing tools and applications for data editing and migrating workflow to ArcGIS Pro and updating technical documents.

Additional tasks may include developing scripting tools and/or processes for quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) of data, and/or improving layer symbology and web map cartography, and responding to GIS user issues and r...