About Our Job

With competitive pay great benefits and endless opportunities working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose for you and those who benefit from your passion skills and expertise. Join our diverse inclusive and talented workforce of more than 11000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver Denver.

What We Offer

This is an oncall position which means it is a parttime hourly role. This position will work no more than 39 hours per week. The pay for this position is $19.59/hour and is eligible to enroll in the City and County of Denvers 457b retirement plan. This position is not eligible for other additional benefits. Oncall positions may have routine or variable work schedules. The typical schedule will be Monday Thursday 6:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. MST.

Location

This position will be in the Denver metro area and work will be citywide.

What Youll Do

Denver Parks & Recreation currently seeks dynamic and experienced professionals who enjoy working outdoors in urban Open Space and hybrid parks. This OnCall Open Space Technician position functions independently or as part of a team under the Open Space Program. Work will take place in a variety of terrains and weather conditions for the purpose of stewarding ecosystems in the urban environment; enhancing the resiliency usability and safety of those ecosystems; and environmental protection.

The OnCall Open Space Technician position is ideal for entry level and seasoned professionals with an educational background in ecology environmental studies natural resources wildlife conservation horticulture forestry arboriculture or related disciplines and with experience in these fields and line of work.

DPR recognizes the importance of diversity in the representation of our organization to best serve our customers and community. To that end DPR is committed to:

• Examining department policies and processes that value diverse perspectives and eliminate barriers to inclusion

• Identifying where inequities exist and implementing strategies to ensure equitable outcomes

• Strengthening diversity in Parks and Recreation services by transforming policies to institutionalize equity

• Reinvesting in resources aimed at ensuring DPR is an equitable and just organization

This position will focus its responsibilities to manage the Citys environmental assets. Job duties and responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to the following:

• Steward 2000 acres of urban open spaces through native and invasive vegetation management restoration and ecologically sound practices

• Identify map and manage plant populations using Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) principles

• Maintain chemical application equipment and record pesticide applications

• Safely operate a variety of hand tools and other landscape equipment

• Participate in collaborative projects with other work units or volunteer groups

• Perform minor repairs to gardening and grounds equipment vehicles and machinery including repair or replacement of broken parts

• Comply with the Colorado Noxious Act (C.R.S. 355.5101119

What Youll Bring

We value diversity of ethnicity race socioeconomic status sexual identity gender religion language ability and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. Youll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself your work the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience skills and characteristics:

• Selfmotivated curious and committed to production

• Comfortable working independently or in a team setting

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and work well with others

• Ability to work in varied terrain and inclement weather with flexible schedules (availability on weekends as needed)

• Ability to operate a variety of hand and power tools.

• Ability to operate riding mowers tractors truck trailers and other landscape equipment.

• Ability to read maps and follow verbal and written direction

• At least a 2year degree in open space management environmental studies wildlife conservation noxious and vegetation management forestry horticulture natural resources resilient landscapes or in lieu of a degree 3 years of experience in a closely related field

• Competent computer skills in Microsoft Office applications

• Experience working with GIS integrated data collection software

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education requirement: None

• Experience Requirement: None

• Licensure: Requires a valid Drivers License at the time of application. Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment

Application Deadline

This position is expected to stay open until April 7th 2025. Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than April 7th 2025 at 11:59 p.m. MST

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