Adventure Camp Summer Internship 

We are now accepting applications for Summer 2025!

Application Deadline: February 1st, 2025

If you love working with kids and animals, the Topeka Zoo’s Education and Conservation Department is offering a truly unique and exciting summer internship with our Adventure Camp Program! Interns will have the opportunity to get their feet wet in environmental and conservation education by using the zoo as an active, living classroom. Not only will interns schedule, oversee, and run daily summer camp activities for children ages 6-12, but they will also get a backstage pass into how the zoo operates. Interns will learn how to give presentations and lead hands-on activities and will complete a training course on animal handling to utilize a variety of education animals (invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds) during programming.

SALARY AND SCHEDULE: $13.00/hour, 40 hours per week, May 19th-August 1st, 2025

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND QUALIFICATIONS - CLICK HERE

Interns must provide their own accommodations and transportation.  Feel free to contact the phone number below with any questions regarding housing or other internship information.

Please note this is not an animal care internship. This is an internship with the Education and Conservation Department working with our summer camp kids. You will work with our education animal collection to give programs but will not be involved in the daily care/feeding of these animals. Please do not apply to this opportunity if you are seeking an animal care internship.

TO APPLY:

Please send a resume and cover letter to Ms. Hunter Mangel at hmangel@topekazoo.org. If you are still in high school, please include one letter of recommendation in your application along with your resume and cover letter. (College applicants may send in a letter of recommendation if you’d like, although it is not mandatory.) To contact the Education Department by phone, please call 785-368-9137.