Are you a young adult looking to join the historic trades? Looking to start a career with the National Park Service? Applications are open now for HPTC’s Aspiring Preservationist Programs.
The Traditional Trades Advancement Program (TTAP) is a 26-week program for young adults, ages 18-30 (up to 35 for veterans) interested in gaining hands-on preservation experience. Since 2018, TTAP has placed aspiring preservationists at national parks nationwide to preserve cultural resources and crucial infrastructure. Trainees receive project-based opportunities to learn carpentry, woodcrafting, finishing, masonry, metalworking, and window restoration while working, learning, and earning alongside professional NPS staff.
Requirements:
Applicants must be 18 – 30 years of age, or 18 – 35 years of age for US veterans.
No prior experience required.
$18/ hour
Participants work 40 hours per week for 26 weeks.
Positions are available across the country at different National Parks.
Positions open seasonally.
TTAP participants have:
repaired historic window sashes,
replaced perimeter capstones on a revolutionary era fort,
removed old mortar and pointed walls,
stabilized historic barn foundations,
waxed and treated bronze monuments,
restored historic viewsheds, and more!
Positions for the 2024 TTAP spring/summer season:
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore
Minute Man National Historical Park
Yosemite National Park
Colorado National Monument
Rocky Mountain National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
This year is the first year for the TTAP Landscape Stewardship Corps. All the requirements & benefits are the same as listed above. These participants will gain a foundation for a career in historic landscape preservation by receiving on-the-job training in trades, such as: horticulture, arboriculture, forestry, trail management, landscape masonry and metalwork, cemetery management, and more!
Positions for the 2024 TTAP Landscape Stewardship Corps spring/summer season:
Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites
President’s Park (White House)
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
Yosemite National Park
John Muir National Historic Site
Independence National Historical Park
Weir Farm National Historic Site
Andersonville National Historic Site
Rock Creek Park
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Hot Springs National Park
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Hampton National Historic Site
Longfellow National Historic Site
To learn more about HPTC internship opportunities, click here.
Have questions? Please sign up for one of the upcoming Zoom Expos here or email hptc_learning@nps.gov.
Ready to apply?
You can view active applications here: https://historictrades.org/national-park-service
(Check back frequently to view new openings. Application deadlines vary for each position.)