Benefits
Qualifications
To Apply
Send a resume with a cover letter summarizing your relevant experience to Chris Sykes. Please include position(s) of interest in the subject line.
Internship Positions
Unpaid Internships*
* We do offer paid internships, but these internships vary from year to year.
Description: Our Animal Clinic Internship (unpaid) position includes a wide variety of administrative and animal care responsibilities. This internship is 20-40 hours per week, flexible schedule required including some weekend and evening hours. Applications accepted year round for the animal clinic internships.
Primary Duties
Description: Position includes a wide variety of duties with the center’s education and outreach programs both on and off-site. This position is 20-40 hours per week, flexible schedule required including some weekend and evening hours. Applications accepted year round for the education internships. provide care of gloved trained birds of prey (e.g., preparing diets, cleaning cages and facilities), conduct formal and informal tours of the center and Treetop Nature Trail, assist with summer camp programs, develop written education materials. and assist with fundraising events.
Primary Duties
This is a full-time 3-month position
Start Date: Mid-May through mid-August
Goal: To assist the Staff and Volunteers of the Alabama Wildlife Center to provide professional care for nestling and fledgling native songbirds, in order to ensure that the birds become normal, breeding adults that are fit to return to the wild.
Primary Duties
Additional Duties
This is a full-time 3-month position
Start Date: Mid-May through mid-August
Goal: To provide appropriate housing for a variety of wildlife species preparing for release in order to foster the development of physical strength, agility and foraging and other behavioral skills necessary to return to the wild and assist staff in returning healthy orphans to their natural families.
Primary Duties
Additional Duties
This is a full-time 3-month position
Start Date: Mid-May through mid-August
Goal: To assist staff in providing daily routine medical care and husbandry for a variety of avian species. To coordinate and supervise clinic volunteers in daily avian care, cleaning and maintenance. To assist staff in providing professional care for nestling and fledgling native avian species in order to assure that the birds become normal breeding adults that are fit to return to the wild.