Summer at a Montana Nature Conservancy Guest Ranch

Our Jobs

Wrangler/Family Programs: Responsible for leading guests on day rides out of the guest ranch and assisting with care of the horses. Operate the children’s/family programs a couple of days a week.

Wrangler/Naturalist and Head Wrangler/Naturalist: Responsible for assisting in the care of the horses and leading day rides for guests; Responsible for leading educational outings for guests.

Naturalist: Our naturalist leads daily hikes and programs for guests, discussing the plants, animals, local ecology, and other aspects of the area’s rich natural history. The naturalist also plays a key role in the ranch’s shoulder season natural history workshops, including two courses with ornithologist David Allen Sibley.

Head Cook: Create high quality, nutritious meals for approximately 40+ people. Work independently in the preparation of meals, and jointly with the Guest Services Manager in planning weekly menus, ordering ranch consumables, and maintaining inventories.  Work cooperatively and closely with the Assistant Cooks and Wait Staff. Responsible for maintaining a clean an organized kitchen and dining area.  Will oversee the Assistant Cooks.

Assistant Cook: Responsible for helping the Head Cook with baking, food preparation, and food ordering as needed. Will prepare nutritious and creative meals for up to 40+ people.

Guest Services: Position includes cleaning cabins on a daily basis, doing laundry, serving meals, and cleaning the dining area. Will perform other ranch chores as needed.

General Ranch Assistant/Guest Services: Half Ranch Assistant, half Guest Services, two days a week this position provides a full range of administrative and program support to the Guest Ranch.  These functions will involve general duties in the office and ranch wide including: answering phones, sorting/distributing mail, maintaining equipment, shopping for and ordering supplies, and organizing and filing, running errands in town, and transporting guests to and from various locations.  Additionally, the remainder of time is spent acting as a guest service staff with housekeeping and/or food and beverage services, etc.

Gardener/Maintenance Assistant: Planning, seeding, harvesting, and care of the ranch garden and greenhouse, keeping of diligent records of the garden and greenhouse production, and mowing and watering of grounds.  Additionally, assists Maintenance Manager with facility maintenance.