TEEN VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
We are looking for teens aged 14-18 to fill the volunteer positions listed below. If interested, please call Caroline C. Wilson, Volunteer & Internship Coordinator, at 883-3071.
Summer 2008 Opportunities
Teen Greeter
(Visitor Services Department)
If you enjoy talking with people and are enthusiastic about the Desert Museum, this is the job for you! Teen Greeters are the front-line volunteers who welcome visitors when they first arrive at the museum, making a very important first impression.
Teen Greeters answer questions, assist with wheelchairs, get visitors oriented to the museum, and help them plan their visit. This job is working mostly outside on the front patio, near the ticket windows. Teen Greeters work two days/week from 7:30am to 12:00 noon. This position starts June 2 and ends August 18. Training will be provided.
Teen Exhibit Monitor
(Exhibits Department)
As Teen Exhibit Monitor you can take your time as you do an easy stroll around the museum grounds in the early morning before anyone else is on the pathways. You'll be checking each exhibit to be sure everything is working.
You might have the very first glimpses of the day of live animals on exhibit as you perform minor repairs and adjustments on the exhibit signage and interpretive devices. Teen Exhibit Monitors work mostly outdoors and they work two or three mornings/week from 7:30am to 11:00am each day. On-the-job training will be provided. This position starts June 2 and ends August 18.
Teen Botany Assistant
(Botany Department)
For someone who enjoys landscaping and gardening this is a perfect fit. As a Teen Botany Assistant you work alongside a museum horticulturalist and learn how to prune, water plants, fix irrigation lines, and set landscape rock.
The work in this position is all outdoors 7:30am to 12:00 noon two days/week. This position starts June 2 and ends August 18.
Teen Graphics Tech
(Graphics Department)
Put your computer skills to good use this summer while you learn how to design & refurbish museum signage. Some of your work day will be spent moving rock, transporting new exhibits, and other tasks that best suited to energetic, strong young people, but you will also get to exercise your mental skills and creative instincts as you help with development of signs for museum grounds.
The work is mostly outdoors 7:30am to 12:00 noon two days/week. Training will be provided. This position starts June 2 and ends August 18.
