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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.

Volunteer Openings

Animal Ambassador Assistant (AAA)

Animal Ambassador Assistants enhance the visitor experience by introducing animal ambassadors in a special outdoor open-air Discovery Zone enclosure. With a better understanding of our local wildlife and ecology, we believe visitors will be inspired to appreciate animals, make good environmental choices, and take care of our earth wisely.

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Wildlife Docent

Docents 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.

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The Wildlife Interpretive Guides

TWIGs (weekend Docents create meaningful and memorable experiences for visitors by interpreting CuriOdyssey’s wildlife collection, engaging visitors with touchable biofacts, and presenting live animals to the public. In doing so, volunteers inspire a love for science and curiosity about the world to create a brighter future.

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Wildlife Watcher

This program offers volunteers experience monitoring wildlife and provides exposure to animal welfare, conservation, and zoo careers. Data collected contributes to ongoing research on captive exotic animal welfare at CuriOdyssey.

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LOCATION

1651 Coyote Point Drive
San Mateo, CA 94401
Ohlone Land Acknowledgement

650-342-7755
[email protected]

CuriOdyssey is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Tax ID 94-1262434

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