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About the Role

This is a paid six-month program designed for individuals early in their careers or graduating college, offering an immersive work-based learning experience and professional development opportunities within the park.

Responsibilities

• Help create a short park staff and alumni survey to understand participation in youth or intern programming, current roles, and alumni connection to parks.
• Work with program staff to finalize surveys, ensure standardized questions, and support distribution and collection.
• Compile, consolidate, and summarize survey results into branch- and organization-level metrics.
• Pull and organize datasets from multiple programs and departments to support Power BI dashboards, graphs, and reporting visuals.
• Create clear, accessible, and visually compelling charts, tables, dashboards, and summaries for internal reporting and storytelling.
• Support standardization of data visualizations, reporting formats, and metric definitions.
• Support organizational reporting by extracting and synthesizing data, creating dashboards, and developing charts for key organizational health metrics and strategic plan outcomes.
• Prepare visual content for reports, presentations, and communications used by leadership and other teams.
• Help identify patterns and reporting approaches for how people engage with the parks.
• Support analysis and data visualization of the Youth & Intern Alumni Study dataset.
• Develop program-specific analyses and visualizations for youth and internship programs to understand outcomes and engagement.
• Cross-reference alumni engagement data across systems to understand current involvement with the Parks Conservancy.
• Share insights with staff planning alumni engagement activities.
• Support year-end reporting and storytelling on alumni experience and engagement.
• Help document data workflows, survey processes, dashboard logic, metric definitions, data sources, and reporting methodologies.
• Contribute ideas for improving survey quality, data consistency, reporting efficiency, accessibility, and visualization practices.
• Support program participant surveys for various programs as needed.
• Assist with ad hoc evaluation and data requests from internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum 18+ years old; must have a high school diploma or equivalent experience.
• Enrolled in or recently graduated from an educational program, or has comparable hands-on experience, with interest in evaluation, data visualization, data analytics, statistics, social sciences, public administration, nonprofit management, business intelligence, information systems, or a related field.
• Experience with data visualization, data analysis, evaluation, survey design, or descriptive statistics or willingness to build skills through hands-on work.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with spreadsheets, survey responses, and qualitative or quantitative information.
• Experience working in a team environment and independently.
• Participants must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent or agree to obtain one or be enrolled in an institution of higher education.

Skills

• Analytical thinking and curiosity
• Ability to communicate insights clearly in writing, visuals, and conversation
• Basic skills with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel)
• Respect for confidentiality of data and personal information
• Demonstrated effectiveness working on diverse teams
• Commitment to inclusive practices
• Good communication skills
• Respect for others
• Self-motivated
• Proactive approach to problem-solving
• Willingness to learn new tools
• Ability to ask thoughtful questions and seek support
• Collaborative mindset
• Interest in parks, community engagement, evaluation, impact measurement, and mission-driven work
• Experience with at least one data tool such as Excel / Google Sheets, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, SQL, Python, R, SurveyMonkey, or similar platforms is helpful.

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Hybrid (in-person & remote)
• Full-time (32 hours/week)

Experience Level

• Early career
• Recent graduate

Education Level

• High school diploma or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

• $640/week

Benefits

• Access to the Conservancy's Employee Assistance Program
• Employee discounts
• Uniform with the Parks Conservancy & NPS logos will be provided
• Networking with fellow members and park staff
• Professional development opportunities (Salesforce, data analysis, workshops on various topics)
• $50 reimbursed for duty and travel related expense with supervisor approval

About the Company

• Since 1981, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (Parks Conservancy) has served as the nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, collaborating with the Presidio Trust, partners, donors, and the community to support the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA).
• The GGNRA stretches across three Bay Area counties north and south of the Golden Gate Bridge and includes iconic places such as Muir Woods National Monument, Fort Point National Historic Site, Alcatraz Island, Crissy Field, Mori Point, Lands End, and the Presidio of San Francisco.
• The Parks Conservancy engages at the intersection of national park sites, local communities, social justice, and climate resilience.
• Collaborating with partners, our staff are dedicated to enhancing public awareness and providing volunteer and educational opportunities in the parks.
• We are park builders, caretakers, ambassadors and educators, all working to connect people to parks in support of our vision Parks for All Forever.

Equal Opportunity

• The Student Conservation Association, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• The SCA strives to cultivate a work environment that encourages fairness, teamwork, and respect among all staff members and is committed to maintaining a work atmosphere where lifestyles may grow personally and professionally.