Working
Seasonal | Volunteering | Year Round
There are nine full-time staff members who work in the Portsmouth office and on-island as well as four senior staff members who work on-island during the season.
Every job on the island including docking boats and handling freight; cooking and serving food; maintaining the grounds, buildings, power plant, and waste water treatment facility; and providing all hospitality services is staffed by a "Pelican," the affectionate term for the approximately 100 young people who work here and often return year after year to what Yankee Magazine once called "one of the top ten summer jobs in New England".
As an island environment ten miles out to sea, Star Island must provide its own utilities including electricity, water, waste treatment, and garbage disposal. We handle the largest amount of compost in the State of New Hampshire. We grow our own flowers in a perennial garden and display them throughout the hotel and dining hall. Maintaining and preserving our historic buildings is at the forefront of our operation.
Some incredibly valuable crews of people who work for Star Island are our volunteers whose jobs during volunteer weekends in May include carpentry, painting, gardening, chair-caning, and all kinds of maintenance and repair work. Year-round volunteers provide valuable expertise from an array of professions.