Work at NPCA
Joining NPCA means having the opportunity to make a world of difference.
Becoming part of our team.
We believe the heritage that defines you today is precisely what makes you the perfect protector of our national parks. As an employee (or volunteer or intern), you will ensure that our great national parks will continue to inspire everyone for generations to come.
When you join NPCA, you will also experience a team atmosphere that is highly supportive and understanding. We all carry a passion for what we do. We all work toward a common goal. And we are here for each other, no matter what the need or challenge may be.
From the very start, you will contribute to something bigger. Bigger than yourself. Your community. Your country. You will work to enhance and preserve environments and structures that are part of our collective responsibility as humans, and part of our collective consciousness.
Recognition, compensation, and making an impact.
Recognition for your performance and growth is a large part of our employment proposition. We offer competitive compensation and benefits in an environment that acknowledges high performance.
Perhaps most fulfilling is the knowledge that you will join an employer of high ethical integrity- and that your efforts will translate into real change. We have been responsible for a number of environmentally-focused achievements and will continue to be a driving national force.
Our diverse and inclusive nature.
You will find that we are an open-minded organization, accepting and encouraging of all points-of-view. We are an active organization, energetically dedicated to our mission. Furthermore, we are focused on fostering an inclusive culture that not only treasures diversity in the initiatives that support our country’s national parks, but also in our membership and employment.
Our Values:Our core values embolden us to achieve excellence; unite us with one another (our members, volunteers, partners, and employees); and fuel our commitment to become the catalyst and leader (that fulfills our shared mission).
- Commitment to Mission: We believe that our personal passion for and professional commitment to the national parks are essential to our success.
- Empowerment: We believe that staff, members, volunteers, and partners must be provided with the facts, tools, skills, and inspiration to advocate on behalf of the national parks.
- Teamwork: We believe that effective teamwork- built on a fundamental trust in and respect for each other- is integral to our success and includes sincerely listening to each other, appreciating different opinions, sharing information and responsibility, and integrating our work across departments.
- Accountability: We believe in the importance of holding ourselves accountable to each other, our members, and the public, as well as to the excellence, timeliness, and integrity of our work, and responsibility, and integrating our work across departments.
- Innovation: We believe that it takes insightful creativity, perseverance, and strategic risk-taking to successfully complete our programs, processes, administration, and outreach.
- Diversity: We believe in and celebrate the diversity of cultural backgrounds, community traditions, and political perspectives at NPCA and in the National Park System, and believe that by integrating such diversity into our work, we will most effectively accomplish our mission.
