Volunteer
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Job Description
FROM: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a09SJ00000D3ICD
ADDRESS: 1138 GA Highway Spur 20 Cartersville, Georgia, 30121
DATES: 7/2/2025 – 9/1/2025
DEPT: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Park host volunteer opportunity with USACE for the Sweetwater Day Use Area located on Allatoona Lake.
Volunteers will work some weekends and holidays with extended holiday hours. Duties include visitor assistance and information services such as redeeming USACE Annual Pass purchases, and frequent patrols throughout the park to ensure the compliance of general park rules by the public. Volunteers will ensure fee compliance but will not be handling user fees.
USACE Allatoona Lake Park Host Volunteer Qualifications for Sweetwater Day Use Area: available to work weekends and holidays with extended holiday hours, fulfill 20-25 volunteer hours per week, comfortable with public interaction and engagement, available to open/close park gates while on-duty and at the appropriate times as instructed, have a valid driver’s license and personal vehicle that is reliable. Background checks are required. A campsite with electricity (50 amp), water, and sewage will be provided in exchange for a 20/25-hour work week.
The work environment is both indoors (working gatehouse) and outdoors (frequent park inspections). This is one of our more busier parks, so it can be quite difficult but is easily manageable. Must be comfortable with working with others, including other sets of volunteers, USACE staff, and the general public. Surrounded by Allatoona Lake wildlife (plants, trees, insects, animals). Also prone to dangerous weather hazards (thunderstorms, heavy rainfall, extreme cold/heat, etc.). Interactions with the public can also be hazardous under certain circumstances.
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