Want to become a Solana Center Docent? Learn more about the requirements below:
- Requirements For Staffing Docent Booths: Join at least two community outreach booths. Attend a Green Living Tour or a virtual Green Living Tour training.
- Requirements For Leading Green Living Tours: Review the tour script and make note of your questions/comments. Attend virtual Green Living Tour training, and shadow one docent-led tour.
- Requirements For Delivering Solana Center Presentations: Review PowerPoint presentation and make note of your questions/comments. Complete an in-person or online training session with an experienced docent.
Once you complete your Eco Team Docent Training you can:
- Lead our Green Living Tour: Show our visitors what we are all about here at Solana Center, and give a guided tour of our grounds to scheduled groups.
- Host Docent Booths: Help us broaden the reach of our programming! Docent booths go where our staff cannot, providing more people with access to our resources on sustainability. Docent booths take place at different times and locations throughout the year.
- Lead presentations about Solana Center: Deliver our PowerPoint presentation to community groups throughout San Diego to introduce them to our work.
- Mentor a new volunteer
Application Process
Now accepting applications.
Selected applicants will be contacted via email to set up a virtual meeting.
Docent Commitments
Docents will aim to lead one docent activity a month (or complete 4 to 6 hours a month). Below are a few examples of possible docent-led activities. Please note that these events typically take place at different times throughout the year, and it is not guaranteed all of these opportunities will each be available each month. Alternative engagements can be communicated with the Volunteer Coordinator.
Requirements
- Eagerness to educate our community and spread environmental education
- Foundational knowledge of key environmental concepts
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Access to personal transportation and willingness to commute potentially lengthy distances within San Diego County
- Must be 18 years or older
- Able to walk, stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to have some flexibility for events. School events and on-site events often take place during the week, and outreach and workshop events typically take place during the weekend.
- After application, we can discuss how often you are able to participate.
- Must be able to follow our Covid-19 policy (below)
- All positions are volunteer, unpaid positions
Docent Portal
Already a docent with Solana Center? Access the password-protected portal page for information about upcoming events.
Eco Team Program funded in part by the City of Encinitas Community Grant Program
