As a conservation charity, our volunteers play a vital role in supporting our work and helping us to achieve our purpose to connect people with nature and save species from extinction.
Adelaide Zoo Volunteer Guides, Boo at the Zoo Volunteers and Monarto Safari Park Mallee Minders
Our Zoos SA volunteers love the outdoors, animals and interacting and engaging with people. Our generous volunteers contribute across Zoos SA through a range of people-facing and behind the scenes roles. Often they are the public face of Zoos SA and key connectors with guests to our animal and conservation stories.
As a volunteer you’ll gain knowledge, develop skills and utilise the strengths and experiences you already possess, to contribute positively to our programs.
Please note: Our volunteer roles DO NOT involve working directly with animals.
You can apply anytime via the online form. Check out the different roles in ‘General Interests’ and select those which are most of interest and you feel you are best suited to.
If your interests match our current recruitment needs you will be invited to attend a short ‘matching workshop or interview’ so we can see if you fit our program, values and organisational culture, and that we also match to your expectations!
NOTE: We receive a high number of applications and selection to be a volunteer is a competitive process due to the limited places available. We recruit for roles on an as needs basis with some roles only advertised internally.
We are seeking passionate, committed, curious, adaptable, positive and cheerful volunteers who desire to serve our organisation and conservation efforts.
Adelaide Zoo volunteers engage in a variety of roles that form an integral part of assisting with the day to day running of the zoo and help our visitors to have an enjoyable experience.
This position requires volunteers to:
Behavioral and Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals
All of our volunteers can choose to be involved in our annual events program which include Boo at the Zoo, Twilight Zoos in Summer and other great events throughout the year.
Monarto Safari Park volunteers engage in a variety of tasks that form an integral part of assisting with the day to day running of the park and help our visitors to have an enjoyable experience.
As a Monarto Safari Park volunteer you’ll get the chance to support a variety of activities including;
These Guiding roles:
Behavioural and Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals.
All of our volunteers can choose to be involved in our annual events program which includes Boo at the Zoo, our popular volunteer-run events and other events across both sites.
The type and length of training required for any of our roles depends on the position with a focus on on-the-job learning, being flexible and adaptive to change and continual knowledge-seeking.
Training may include group-based sessions, on the job learning with mentors as well as online e-learning modules.
We are committed to lifelong learning, providing regular professional development and refresher opportunities with an expectation that all volunteers will actively stay up to date with any information about our animals and organisation.
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