Jobs at Dallas Zoo

Provides daily care, feeding, enrichment, training, exhibit maintenance, health monitoring, and welfare support for primates and other taxa. Maintains animal records, assists with transfers and procedures, participates in research, educates zoo guests, and supports conservation initiatives. The role also involves supervising and mentoring staff, interns, and volunteers; responding to emergencies; performing capture and restraint; and collaborating with veterinary and zoo teams.

Assist with grassroots conservation fundraising campaigns, including event planning, logistics, guest engagement, community outreach, conservation messaging, database management, and committee coordination. Represent the Dallas Zoo at on- and off-site events, including some evening and weekend activations. The internship provides experience in nonprofit operations and community partnerships and requires 20–24 hours weekly for up to 12 weeks.

Provides daily care for butterflies throughout their life cycle, maintains exhibits and records, monitors animal health, and delivers engaging conservation and educational programs to zoo guests. The role includes handling live and expired butterflies, training volunteers and interns, supporting special events and conservation initiatives, maintaining sanitation and safety standards, and working outdoors, weekends, holidays, and irregular hours.

Provides welcoming guest experiences at zoo attractions and special events. Operates and monitors attractions, supports event setup and breakdown, shares information, manages crowds and lines, enforces safety guidelines, monitors quality, reports concerns, and assists with emergency procedures and audiovisual setups. The role involves outdoor work, weekends, holidays, evenings, and physical activity, including lifting up to 40 pounds.

Provides daily care and husbandry for the Dallas Zoo’s Houston Toad colony, including feeding, cleaning, health monitoring, enrichment, reproductive management, records, exhibit maintenance, conservation support, and educational presentations. The role requires collaboration with veterinary and zoo staff, participation in animal handling and research activities, emergency response, and adherence to animal welfare and safety standards. This grant-funded position runs from 2026 through 2031.

Provides daily care for zoo animals and exhibits, including feeding, cleaning, enrichment, observation, medication, records, pest control, and basic repairs. Assists with animal capture, restraint, transfers, research, education programs, volunteer training, and emergency procedures. Requires adherence to animal welfare, safety, and sanitation protocols, outdoor work, weekend and holiday availability, and the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Supports daily operations of the Dallas Zoo’s Large Mammals Hoofstock section, including animal husbandry, staff supervision and training, veterinary support, reproduction, behavioral management, enrichment, exhibit maintenance, safety, records, and emergency response. The role works directly with species such as hippos, giraffes, okapi, ostriches, and kudu, while ensuring high standards of animal welfare and facility care.