Percy & Small Shipyard Guides provide 45-minute walking tours of the historic Percy & Shipyard to daily museum visitors and special group tours. The Percy & Small Shipyard is the United States only remaining in-tact shipyard that constructed wooden vessels. The shipyard built wooden schooners primarily for the coal trade and in 1909 built the largest wooden vessel in North America, Schooner Wyoming. The tour guide shares the shipyard’s history and stories of the shipbuilding process, the shipyard workers, and the vessels they constructed. Percy and Small Tour Guides are a part of the Interpretation Volunteer team that provides educational experiences to visitors on the museum campus. Successful guides are comfortable with public speaking, storytelling, and engaging with a diverse audience and broad age ranges. No prior shipbuilding experience or maritime knowledge is required. All new Percy & Small Shipyard Guides complete 10 hours of training that includes tour content, visitor engagement strategies, and museum orientation. Percy & Small Shipyard Guides are supervised by the Director of Education.
Primary Responsibilities
Complete Percy & Small Shipyard Guide Training. This includes ten training hours over the course of three sessions in late April/early May.
Complete the Percy & Small Shipyard Guide Practical Assessment (staff-shadowed tour) before giving tours to the public.
Give 45-minute walking tours of the historic Percy & Small Shipyard that tells the history and local and global significance of the site.
Commit to at least three tours per year to maintain guide status.
Log all volunteer hours into the museum volunteer management software, Better Impact. Training is provided.
To apply, please fill out our online application here: https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=66e8699a-9bb0-4bf8-94bc-85141b40f64f&ApplicationFormNumber=1
