Summary: The Butterfly Habitat Curator provides care for the plants and butterflies inside
Lost River Cave’s Butterfly Habitat while educating guests about the plants and butterflies. This

position is also responsible for maintaining landscape outside the habitat.

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

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.

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,

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 is a seasonal, outdoor position from May to early/mid-September approx. 30/week.

Specific hours are flexible with the exception of 8 required butterfly release daytime events:
o Wednesday, May 22, 2024
o Saturday, June 8, 2024
o Saturday, June 22, 2024
o Wednesday, July 3, 2024
o Saturday, July 20, 2024
o Wednesday, July 31, 2024
o Saturday, August 17, 2024
o Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Pay

This position pays $15 per hour