Get Involved
Volunteer
Volunteers are critical to our success.
Volunteers work with every department at CuriOdyssey from speaking to visitors about animals to leading activities to helping behind the scenes.
Volunteer safety is a priority.
We are ensuring that full health and safety measures are in place to create a safe experience for volunteers as well as our guests, staff and animals.
Program and Wildlife Volunteers
Our volunteers help create an authentic, inquiry based, and immersive environment, while providing meaningful, robust, and personal learning experiences. We believe it’s critical to engage children at a very young age, while their brains and skills of observation and inquiry are developing. Volunteers create meaningful and memorable experiences for visitors by interpreting CuriOdyssey’s wildlife collection and engaging visitors with touchable biofacts, thus inspiring a love of animals and science and curiosity about the world to create a brighter future.
How to volunteer
Application requirements for our positions are listed below.
Fill out the online volunteer application. (Link will open in new browser window)
For other volunteer inquiries, or if you do not hear from us within 7 days of submitting an online application, contact volunteers@curiodyssey.org or 650-340-7518.
Volunteer Openings
Guest Experience Ambassador
As a Guest Experience Ambassador at CuriOdyssey Science Playground and Zoo, you will play a vital role in gathering feedback from our visitors to help us measure and improve our Net Promoter Score (NPS), a metric used by organizations to gauge the loyalty of their customers or visitors. Your primary responsibility will be to engage guests as they are exiting and request them to complete a short survey about their visit. This position requires confidence and comfort in approaching adult guests and asking them to take a moment to share their feedback.
Safety Ambassador
As a Safety Ambassador at CuriOdyssey Science Playground and Zoo, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our playground is a safe and enjoyable environment for all child visitors. Your primary responsibilities will include monitoring playground activities, encouraging safe play practices, promoting kindness among children, interpreting the "Physics in Action" concept to enhance learning, and applying an equity lens in all interactions. This position requires interacting directly with children to address unsafe or unkind behaviors with a focus on positive reinforcement and constructive guidance.
Wildlife Aide
CuriOdyssey is home to approximately 100 non-releasable animals that depend on our Wildlife Department for exceptional daily care. As a Wildlife Aide, you'll assist our professional Keepers in maintaining healthy diets and ensuring clean, safe living environments for all our animals.
(Weekend) Science Squad Volunteer
Are you passionate about science and love engaging with children in a fun, hands-on
way? Join our Weekend Science Squad as a volunteer and help bring exciting
science activities to life during birthday party bookings! This role is part of our
volunteer revenue generation program, meaning we seek responsible, enthusiastic,
and reliable volunteers who can lead and manage this program consistently.
Wildlife Watcher
This program gives volunteers experience in wildlife monitoring while providing valuable insight into animal welfare, conservation efforts, and careers in zoology. The data collected by Wildlife Watchers will directly support ongoing research on the welfare of captive exotic animals at CuriOdyssey.
Join the CuriOdyssey Community
LOCATION
1651 Coyote Point Drive
San Mateo, CA 94401
Ohlone Land Acknowledgement
650-342-7755
info@curiodyssey.org
CuriOdyssey is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Tax ID 94-1262434
