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Practical Learning Officer (ZSL London)
ZSL London Zoo’s Discovery and Learning department are looking for a practical learning officer to join our team. It is a full time, fixed term post until 31st December 2012. The practical learning officer will play a key role in delivering ZSL’s learning strategy and in doing so achieve the Society’s mission to raise awareness and inform visitors and other audiences about animals and their habitats and associated conservation issues.

Practical Learning Officer (ZSL Whipsnade Zoo)
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s Discovery and Learning department are looking for a practical learning officer to join our team. It is a full time, fixed term post until 31st December 2012. The practical learning officer will play a key role in delivering ZSL’s learning strategy and in doing so achieve the Society’s mission to raise awareness and inform visitors and other audiences about animals and their habitats and associated conservation issues.

Wildlife Volunteers
Do you care? Are you searching for that “something more”? The Wildlife For All Trust is an environmental charity with a unique approach. Like many other organisations, we work to conserve endangered species and habitats. Unlike other organisations, we put a lot of emphasis on tackling human problems such as greed, selfishness, and the “me, me, me” mentality. We train our team to understand how these psychological factors have a huge impact on the success or failure of nature conservation projects.

Auarium Displays Supervisor Brighton
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Displays Supervisor to join the team at the World’s Oldest Operating Aquarium in Brighton, Sussex. In this role you will take responsibility for ensuring the continual development and innovation within the displays areas.  Naturally you’ll be responsible for maintenance plans of the life support systems and the cleanliness of our displays as well as the development of suitable diets and feeds for our creatures, ensuring we present world class displays.

Conservation Scientist
Conservation Scientist - Great ape and forest elephant programme in Djoua-Zadie-Mwagna, Gabon
A position is available, starting as soon as possible for an initial period of 12 months, as a Conservation Scientist on ZSL’s great ape and forest elephant programme in Gabon. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has been working in Gabon since 2001 and has recently started a landscape wide great ape and forest elephant conservation programme in the Djoua-Zadie-Mwagna (DZM) area in the north east of the country.

Youth Co-ordinator Internship
ZSL is currently preparing for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) and is looking for a Youth Coordinator intern to assist on organizing a side event for young people during the conference.
This voluntary position is ideally full time (Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week), ideally for seven months and will be based in ZSL’s Conservation Programmes and Education departments. The ideal candidate will be very interested in youth issues, have a passion for conservation and sustainable development, and be self-motivated and hardworking.

Receptionist/ Mail Clerk
We have a vacancy for a Part-time (2 days a week) Receptionist and Mail Clerk who will join a small team responsible for providing Reception and post room services at our Offices at Regent’s Park. You will be dealing with enquiries and the activities of a busy reception. Additionally, you will assist within the post room where your duties will include receiving, sorting and despatching mail in line with our policies and procedures. Relevant Administrative duties will also be undertaken.

Project Manager, Wildlife Wood Project
A position is available, starting as soon as possible, as the Project Manager of ZSL’s Wildlife Wood Project in Cameroon. Recognising the role that the timber sector could play in biodiversity conservation, the Zoological Society of London initiated the Wildlife Wood Project in 2007, establishing partnerships with two timber companies in Cameroon, and working with the Cameroonian government and local communities to improve wildlife management in timber production forests.

Personal Overseas Development (PoD) offers you the opportunity to join the staff at ‘the best little zoo in the world’ in their work of housing rescued animals and providing wildlife education to the people of Belize. You can get involved with the animal management or the education side of work. The project is available for 2 weeks – 6 months. We also offer animal projects in Africa and Asia.

Association of British Wild Animal Keepers (ABWAK) The objectives of the Association are: to improve cooperation among animal keepers, both nationally and internationally; to provide, encourage and organise facilities for the meeting of keepers of wild animals; to improve, through education, the professional competence of all involved with wild animal husbandry; to support the conservation of wildlife through out the world.



Institute of Zoology (IoZ) is the research division of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). It is a government-funded research institute specialising in scientific issues relevant to the conservation of animal species and their habitats. The Institute is based at ZSL's Regents Park site, London.

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is a unique scientific and technical animal welfare organisation. They use scientific knowledge and established expertise to improve the welfare of animals kept as pets, in zoos, and on farms and of wild animals with which we interact. As well as advertising jobs, they also award grants and scholarships.