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: The Animal husbandry volunteer position offers an opportunity to make a difference for the animals at TBEP. Husbandry is the practice of creating an environment to support the animal in our care. Our quality of work is their quality of life! Providing excellent husbandry allows for our animals to thrive in our care as well as maintain a safe, healthy and comfortable life. With upwards of 100 animals, we cannot do it alone. The devoted work of the Animal husbandry volunteers is beyond appreciated.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Cleaning- Animal exhibit, Animal travel kennel, Animal preparation space (kitchen, Animal Recovery Center

• Make enrichment items- Enrichment is the preparing and providing animals with objects, scents and other forms of stimulus to interact with to keep their lives fulfilled.

This position is a hands-on manual labor position that requires hard, dedicated, detail-oriented work with bending, scrubbing, lifting, and carrying items in all types of weather (hot, cold, rain, snow). Please dress accordingly. There will be no touching or interacting with the animals without explicit permission. Remember that you are a volunteer to help us and the animals. The public identifies you as a representative of Turtle Bay Exploration Park. Failing to uphold rules and regulations will result in discipline up to and including termination of the program.

Age: 13 plus
Time: Shifts are 3 hours long from 9am-12pm and/or 1pm-4pm

APPLICATION PROCESS:
- Submit the online volunteer application.
- Fill Teen Husbandry Volunteer Application
1. Attend Husbandry Training Class
2. Pass required safety test