Conservation Education Family and Youth Programs Internship

Description

Join our multi-disciplined team of educators, scientists and conservationists to develop and implement a far-reaching series of programs that will have a measurable, significant and positive impact on wildlife and wild places around the planet, and, help transform the City of Indianapolis into a community that embraces environmental stewardship as a core value. Conservation Education Program interns assist with camps, overnights and variety of other visitor programming. Interns will have opportunities to experience educational programming from a range of viewpoints from development to facilitation.

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities: 

-Support the Zoo’s mission of protecting nature and inspiring people to care for our world.

-Assist in administration of a variety of education programs (camp, conservation station, overnights, etc.).

-Assist with designing new programming.

-Observation and evaluation of various education programs.

-Communicate with Hix Institute Education Programs Manager regularly to ensure goals and objectives are being met within the allocated time frame.

-Assist Hix Institute Education Programs Manager  with a variety of duties to support the department, such as answering phone calls, responding to emails, registration of programs, etc.

Qualifications

To apply, please submit the Summer Session Application form, along with a cover letter, resume, two letters of recommendation and a current (official or unofficial) transcript; March 10 is the deadline to apply. Please visit our website at https://www.indianapoliszoo.com/jobs-volunteer/internships/ for more information.