Wanted: a new superintendent to lead Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Trump administration is hiring for the coveted post based in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, according to a job post on a website that advertises open federal positions. It’s a dream gig for many, overseeing the country’s most-visited national park, which sprawls over the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
That job is just one of many open listings on the federal hiring website that recruits civil servants for positions across the federal government. Despite President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze that applies to most of the executive branch and the administration’s push to slash the size of the federal workforce, the government is still hiring for the Interior Department and other science and energy agencies.
In addition to the gig managing the Great Smoky Mountains park, Interior is hiring for a superintendent to oversee Big Bend National Park and Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River in west Texas. The department is also hiring for jobs across the country, such as wildland firefighters, including at Grand Canyon National Park, which has battled a growing wildfire for more than a month. Other open job posts seek candidates to be seasonal laborers, social workers, park rangers and police officers.
