YOU’LL LOVE VOLUNTEERING AT PEEC!
Here are some of our opportunities…
Docent – Front Desk Ambassadors of PEEC: The first impression of the nature center! Keeping a warm, professional and helpful attitude, the front desk volunteer handles visitor’s questions, orients visitors to the exhibits, completes gift shop purchases, and more. The shifts of this position are 2-3 hours and are very customer service-oriented. We require a commitment of at least 4 hours per month and encourage a recurring weekly schedule.
Morning Bird Feeder: As a part of this volunteer team, the wild birds (and birders) appreciate you! This shift is in the mornings from 9-9:30 and involves placing and filling bird feeders at the Nature Center.
Community Outreach: If you love being social, come represent PEEC at our various outreach events. These volunteers help with anything from recruiting volunteers and members, promoting our programs, crafts with kids, educational games, helping educate families about nature and more…
Exhibits: Volunteers in this role work closely with our Director of Programs and help with image gathering, brainstorming, and possibly identifying community experts to help write new content and assist in maintenance of our exhibits.
Gardens: For those deeply passionate about gardening and detail-oriented, this is a great volunteer opportunity for you. We always need help tending to the weeds and landscape upkeep around the Nature Center. This volunteer position assists our amazing volunteers Natali and Larry who have dedicated many many years of expertise and efforts into the garden.
Critter Care & Outreach: Volunteers in this role are trained to feed and provide water for our critters as well as how to clean their tanks! This is a fun and very important task which is done daily. We also love to have enthusiastic volunteers that want to talk to provide public demos and answer questions about our live animal exhibits. Note: We can only accept a limited number of volunteers for this task, and all training is provided. For this specific volunteer job we do ask that prospective volunteers be willing to be on a weekly schedule to help for at least one season.
Contact PEEC’s Visitor Services Manager, Nic, at nicole@pajaritoeec.org or 505-662-0460.