Butterfly Habitat Curator Jobs

Summary: A Butterfly Habitat Curator provides care for all gardens and butterflies at the
Butterfly Habitat at Lost River Cave while educating guests about the plants and

butterflies inside the butterfly house.
Essential Responsibilities:

Planting and up keep of currently planted pollinator garden inside the habitat and the introductory garden
outside the habitat; includes choosing plants

Maintenance (such as wedding, dead removal, feeding, and replanting) of the garden throughout the
season

Provides husbandry for Butterflies, and monitor their health and enrichment.
Ensures proper record keeping of daily husbandry and maintenance actions.
Follows Butterfly Habitat policies.
Directly and effectively communicates with Property Manager to support the overall needs of Butterflies.
Helps implement trainings for volunteers as well as supervises volunteers within the butterfly house.
Works collaboratively with staff and volunteers, problem solves and communicates within the team and

when working with other teams or departments.
Interacts with and provides educational information for guests of all ages visiting the butterfly house.
Responsible for specific exhibit expertise and dissemination of specific exhibit content as assigned.

Qualifications/Experience:
Possesses experience with gardening, plant selection, and maintaining.
Excellent customer service and communication skills.
Enthusiastic, strong sense of fun, and patient.
Experience working in a non-formal education/museum/education setting.
Comfortable working with individuals of different ages and abilities
Requested but not required: possess or in the process of earning ranking as Master Gardener.

Work Environment/Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to high humidity, intense sunlight, heat,

cold, wind, precipitation, and uneven surfaces. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. This employee could also be exposed to
venomous and non-venomous invertebrates and reptiles.

While performing the responsibilities of this job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee
is often required to: sit, stand, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, walk, reach with arms and hands,
climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and lift (the employee must be able to lift 50lbs). This
employee must handle a variety of butterflies and butterfly chrysalis. Vision abilities required by this job
include close vision.

Core Competencies

1. Project/time management
2. Communication skills
3. Teamwork and cooperation
4. Department knowledge
5. Detail oriented
6. Interpersonal skills
7. Initiative

Work Schedule

This position requires approximately 4 hours each day (25 hours per week) during the week, beginning in
Mid-May and continuing through Mid-September.

Two Saturday’s per month are also required to assist with donor and visitor releases and interpretation.
Salary:

This position pays $15 per hour.

Important Dates for Employment:


April – Site prep, planning, and planting

May to September – Weeding, plantings as needed, garden care, and butterfly releases as dated below:
o Butterfly Releases

Thursday (5/25) after arrival or Friday (5/26) if you prefer
Saturday, June 10, 2023 – Donor/Ticketed Releases
Saturday, June 24, 2023 – Donor/Ticketed Releases
Saturday, July 8, 2023 –Donor/Ticketed Releases
Saturday, July 22, 2023 – Donor/Ticketed Releases
Thursday (8/3) after arrival or Friday (8/4) if you prefer
Saturday, August 19, 2023 – Donor/Ticketed Releases
Thursday (9/31) after arrival or Friday (9/1) if you prefer

Habitat closes mid-September depending on evenings low temps

Winterizing Days: Following Closing