DESCRIPTION: Assist staff and work alongside other Volunteers to maintain animal habitats, provide enrichments, and provide additional animal care as designated. Provide routine care to aquatic/amphibian collection, including food preparation, feeding, evaluation of health status, and daily life-support monitoring.

Assist in the Parrot Playhouse walk-through aviary and the Seasonal Butterfly House as needed

REQUIREMENTS: Excellent work ethic and strong people skills. Don’t mind getting dirty, able to bend, crouch and scrub. Capable of working in all outdoor weather, competent in following very strict animal safety protocols, ect.
Age: Over 18
Time: Minimum of 4 hours per week

APPLICATION PROCESS: Recruitment
- Submit the online volunteer application.
- Attend an interview with the department volunteer supervisor.
- Attend mandatory animal safety class.
- Pass safety test within two weeks (can be taken as many times as needed to pass)
- Qualified candidates will be notified and scheduled.

DESCRIPTION: Volunteer Diver for River Tank exhibit. Assist staff and work alongside other Volunteers. Provide animal and exhibit care as designated; learn proper husbandry guidelines and become knowledgeable in normal behaviors. Observe and report the health status of each individual animal.

REQUIREMENTS: Scuba certified with all necessary equipment. Excellent work ethic and strong people skills. Don’t mind getting dirty, able to bend, crouch and scrub. Capable of working in all outdoor weather, competent in following very strict animal safety protocols, ect.
Age: Over 18
Time: Minimum of 4 hours per week

APPLICATION PROCESS:
- Submit the online volunteer application.
- Attend an interview with the department volunteer supervisor.
- Attend mandatory animal safety class
- Pass safety test within two weeks (test can be taken as many times as needed to pass)
- Qualified candidates will be notified and scheduled.

DESCRIPTION: Assist staff and work alongside other volunteers to maintain animal habitats, provide enrichments, and provide additional animal care as designated.

REQUIREMENTS: Excellent work ethic and strong people skills. Don’t mind getting dirty, able to bend, crouch and scrub. Capable of working in all outdoor weather regardless of weather and competent in following very strict animal safety protocols, etc.
Age: 13 plus
Time: Commit to a minimum of 1 full year of shifts: school year 8 hours every other week, May 1st through the start of Summer break 8 hours one day per week, and Summer break 8 hours two days per week.

APPLICATION PROCESS:
- Submit the online volunteer application.
- Attend mandatory tryout workday.
- Candidates will be notified and scheduled to attend mandatory animal safety class and then pass the safety test within two weeks (the test can be taken as many times as needed to pass).