About: Volunteer
Whether it’s writing for our Primate Species Profiles series, developing educational activities and lessons, designing graphics, developing videos, fundraising, or planning events, there is something for almost everyone who wants to do their part to help animals.
We do not have any paid employment opportunities at this time. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, please check out the open positions and email us with your interest and qualifications, as requested.
Please email us with your interest and resume or CV. Email addresses are listed after each volunteer job description.
No telephone inquiries please.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
experienced grant writer/researcher
New England Primate Conservancy seeks an experienced grant writer and researcher with proven success to find new funding sources to support our expanding education and wildlife protection programs. This requires your research skills as well as your creative writing skills to relate the importance and impact of our work to potential funders.
New England Primate Conservancy is a wildlife conservation education and animal protection organization that is committed to leaving a legacy of hope and tools to build a better tomorrow for all the Earth’s citizens. Education is the heart of animal protection. 70% of our primate cousins are threatened by extinction. All are threatened by human activities. If they are at risk, so too is every other species that shares their environment. Saving one species saves many.
This is a remote volunteer position that can be accomplished from your home, with e-mail, phone, or Zoom correspondence with the president and other management staff. If you are passionate about animals, conservation, wildlife protection, and education, this volunteer opportunity may be for you! This could potentially become a paid position.
Minimum age 25.
Hours per week are negotiable. We’ll work with your schedule.
Please send your letter of interest and resume or CV to:
ATTN: Debra Curtin
[email protected]
SEASONED WRITER WITH A PASSION FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
Are you a talented and seasoned writer? Are you passionate about wildlife conservation? Do you love digging into wildlife facts and crafting stories about what you’ve learned? If so, this volunteer opportunity may be for you!
New England Primate Conservancy is committed to leaving a legacy of hope and tools to build a better tomorrow for all the Earth’s citizens.
At NEPC, we strive to make the complex science behind environmental protection, animal protection, and wildlife conservation easy to understand so that the average person can assess, consider, and modify their own impact on the natural world. We pour through science-based publications and “translate” them into language that everyone can embrace. We even succeed at making it fun, when appropriate.
We are seeking talented writers for our Primate Species Profiles series, the backbone of our education programs. We find our Primate Species Profiles cited widely throughout the internet by conservation sites, wiki sites, zoos, bloggers, news agencies, magazines, other animal protection and conservation organizations, and more. In addition-and very importantly-they are used by students for their school projects.
Nowhere else can one find so many primate species so thoroughly yet concisely profiled in easy-to-understand, non-scientific, non-academic language that everyone can comprehend and enjoy. This is what makes the information that we provide so accessible and so popular.
Creative writing and thorough factual research are required.
This volunteer position can be accomplished from your home, with email, Zoom, and phone correspondence with the Education Team.
If you are a mature writer with a passion for conservation and wildlife protection, this opportunity may be for you.
Minimum age 28.
10-20 hours per month. We’ll work with your schedule.
Please send your letter of interest, writing sample, and resume or CV to:
ATTN: Debra Curtin
[email protected]
CREATIVE THINKER TO DEVELOP PROJECT-BASED EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
With the expanded implementation of online and hybrid learning strategies, we’ve ramped up development of educational content that makes it easier for teachers to teach, for students to learn, and for parents to adapt to their unwitting and unfamiliar roles as academic coaches.
New England Primate Conservancy is a conservation and animal protection organization that is committed to leaving a legacy of hope and tools to build a better tomorrow for all the Earth’s citizens. Education is the heart of animal protection. 70% of our primate cousins are threatened by extinction. All are threatened by human activities. If they are at risk, so too is every other species that share their environment. Saving one species saves many.
For this volunteer opportunity, you should have experience creating project-based educational content for grades K-12 or for specific age-groups in between. The activities will be accessible via the NEPC website. They could be online activities, printable activities, or a combination of both. For example, our current activities include videos, slideshows, graphics, and downloadable games.
If you’re an experienced teacher, this opportunity may be for you.
If you are a creative individual with learning activity development experience plus a passion for conservation and wildlife protection, this opportunity may be for you.
Familiarity with primatology, anthropology, conservation-related issues, earth sciences, environmental protection, or primate-related subject matter would be beneficial. Understanding of STEM or STEAM standards-all the better.
This volunteer position can be accomplished from your home, with email and phone correspondence with the Education Team Director. You must have internet and email access. NEPC will provide access to appropriate apps.
Minimum age 28.
10-20 hours per month. We’ll work with your schedule. More time may be required during the activity creation process. Less other times.
Please send your letter of interest and resume or CV to:
ATTN: Debra Curtin
[email protected]
HELP US GET OUR AWESOME STEM/STEAM EDUCATION PROGRAMS INTO SCHOOLS
New England Primate Conservancy has unique educational programs that students and educators love…once they find them. We have initiated a number of outreach methods including an Educator’s blog, posting some of our programs on education information boards, social media (of course), a few educational conferences, and word of mouth. We have just begun presenting webinars that introduce our programs.
If you are a well-networked educator or a marketing professional with a more diverse reach than has occurred to us or someone that has skills within this arena that we haven’t even considered, we’d love to chat with you to see if we can work together to get NEPC programs into more schools and aftercare programs. We need more ideas and inroads that we have not yet considered or that we don’t yet know about.
NEPC’s lessons and activities allow students to work individually or in teams, depending on educators’ needs, objectives, and goals. In NEPC programs, students actively engage in real-world and personally meaningful activities. Standards-based, these STEM and STEAM lessons encourage critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, self-management, project management, and collaboration. All are animal-protection and conservation-themed and are designed to be used across multiple academic disciplines. Our Education Team will work with educators to tailor programs to their specific needs.
We are particularly interested in getting our programs into underserved communities in which careers in conservation science might not be perceived to be within one’s reach. They are. We believe that they just need the appropriate introduction. NEPC programs fill that bill. These days, everyone needs to be and can be a conservationist.
This volunteer position can be accomplished from your home with email, Zoom, and phone correspondence with the Education Team. If you have a passion for conservation and wildlife protection, this opportunity may be for you. You must be located in the United States.
Please send your letter of interest and resume or CV to:
ATTN: Debra Curtin
[email protected]