St. Albert’s Historic River Lots & Grain Elevators is home to four historic buildings connected to St. Albert’s Métis and Francophone histories, two provincially designated grain elevators and train station. Interpreters share the rich history of St. Albert’s agricultural, fur trade, Métis, and Francophone communities at this location by assisting with the educational and community programming, tours and special events.
The Seasonal Historic Interpreters support the organizational vision of engaging and embracing local heritage. As members of the interpretive team the interpreters will focus on the interpretation and visitor experience by leading prebooked school, day care and day camp programs, planning special event and drop-in activities, supporting preregistered courses and providing informative, engaging tours of the heritage buildings and historic site.
Position 1 – River Lot 24 interprets St. Albert’s Métis history
- Providing visitors with guided tours of Cunningham House and Belcourt House on River Lot 24 and sharing our community’s rich Métis History.
- Research and develop relevant material on local Métis history to support the interpretation of the Métis River Lot for visitors and staff.
- Language skills in French, Cree and /or Michif are assets
Position 2 – Grain Elevator Site interprets the agricultural history
- Providing visitors with guided tours of the 1906 Brackman Ker and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevators, sharing the rich agricultural history of St. Albert.
- Research and develop relevant materials and resources on local agricultural history to support the interpretation of the grain elevators and associated agricultural equipment.
- Language skills in French, Cree and /or Michif are assets.
Position 3 – River Lot 23 interprets St. Albert’s Francophone history
- Providing visitors with guided tours of maison Chevigny and the Brosseau Granary to share the rich Francophone history of St. Albert.
- Research and develop relevant materials on local Francophone history to support the interpretation of River Lot 23 for visitors and staff.
- Language skills in French.
Position 4 – Interprets the Train Station and Visitor Centre
- Welcomes and orientates visitors to heritage sites .
- Provides visitors with family friendly weekly craft afternoons and activities.
- Develops new activities to engage the public with the heritage buildings and St. Albert’s history
Further details about our site can be found at artsandheritage/.ca
- Opening and closing of the historic buildings.
- Ensuring materials are prepped for school and community programs at the site.
- Collaborate with the larger interpretive team (Heritage Sites Manager, Programs Supervisor, interpreters) to plan summer programs, weekly drop-in activities and special events.
- Organize personal daily work schedules based on the posted interpreter schedules to ensure programs and activities re prepared for booked programs and special event.
- Use the posted job schedules to plan work time to ensure the assigned tasks are completed, including delivering programs, development of resources, writing reports, dusting of historic homes, hosting weddings and photo bookings.
- Ensuring historic buildings and the surrounding site is kept clean and safe for visitors and staff and reporting concerns to the Heritage Sites Manager.
- Writing, submitting, and following up on incident reports when required.
- Support the gift shop at the Visitor Centre by processing sales, updating inventory, and merchandising.
- Ensure daily statistics are reported, participate in weekly team meetings, encourage visitors to submit comments in the guest book or on comment cards.
- Draft social media posts.
- Open to all applicants; Métis youth funding opportunities available
- Youth aged 16–30 who are citizens of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government and returning to school in fall (high school or post-secondary) are encouraged to apply. Funding through Rupertsland Institute may be available
- Other funding streams available for youth who do not meet the above criteria
Potential wage subsidy/funding available through Rupertsland Institute for eligible Métis youth. Other youth funding also available.
Apply here https://secure.collage.co/jobs/artsandheritage/60219
Only applications submitted through our website will be accepted. Inquiries can be directed to museum@artsandheritage.ca or 780-459-1528.
