As a conservation-based 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.
Volunteering for Zoos SA is a wonderful opportunity to make a lasting contribution to our important wildlife conservation work while helping the zoo and its unique animal residents. Volunteers also experience some amazing moments, make new friends and create life-long memories.
Adelaide Zoo Volunteer Guides, Boo at the Zoo Volunteers and Monarto Zoo Mallee Minders
Our Zoos SA volunteers love the outdoors, animals and interacting and engaging with people. Our generous volunteers contribute across our zoos through a range of people-facing and behind the scenes roles. Oftentimes they are they are the public face of the zoo and key connectors with guests to our animal and conservation stories.
As a volunteer you’ll gain knowledge, develop skills and use the skills and experiences you already posses, to contribute positively to our Zoo programs.
Please note: Almost all of our roles DO NOT involve working directly with our animals. In the rare instance when these types of roles are available, they are offered to suitable candidates from within our existing volunteer pool.
You can apply anytime via the online form, check out the different roles in ‘General Interests’ and select those you are interested in and feel you would match well to so your application will be identified when we are recruiting for these roles.
If your interests match to our current recruitment needs you will be invited to attend a short ‘matching meeting’ via Zoom so we can see if you match to our program, values and culture, and that we match to your expectations!
NOTE: Selection to be a volunteer is a competitive process due to the limited places in our programs, compared to the number of applications we receive.However, applications are retained on our database unless you ask us to remove it.
We are seeking passionate, committed, curious, adaptable, positive & cheerful people who desire to serve our organisation as volunteers.
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.
Our entry level guiding role:
Must complete Level 2 Guiding first and 3 months of experience at Level 2 before commencing training at Level 3.
Behavioral and Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals
All of our volunteers can choose to be involved in our annual events program which includes Boo in the Zoo, Twilight Zoos in Summer and other great events during 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 zoo 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;
Our entry level guiding role:
Must complete Level 2 Guiding first and 3 months of experience at Level 2 before commencing training at Level 3.
Behavioural and Environmental Enrichment for Zoo Animals
All of our volunteers can choose to be involved in our annual events program which includes Boo in the Zoo, our popular volunteer run events and other events across both zoos.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Zoos SA.
Due to the changes brought about by Covid-19, we have smaller intakes, more often (Feb, May, July), primary focused on Visitor facing roles at this time.
AN INVITE TO PROGRESS TO A MATCHING MEETING IS OFFERED TO APPLICANTS BASED ON MEETING OUR RECRUITMENT NEEDS (based on your General Interests in the application).
Attendance to commence training with Zoos SA will be by invitation. Those who match our recruitment needs will be contacted and invited to attend a matching interview via Zoom, to ensure that we are a match for each other, before an invite is offered.
NOTE:
Applications will be retained for future intakes unless you notify us to archive your application.
All applicants who are interviewed will be notified if they match to our programs or not.
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