Tertiary Work Placement Opportunities

The Nature Parks currently offers two types of work placement opportunities that help students meet their educational requirements, develop skills and experience, and build their industry connections. All work placements are filled directly from tertiary institutions that have existing agreements with Nature Parks.  

Conservation Weeks Placements

Students join our conservation team as they work to maintain the land that Nature Parks manages on Bunurong Country. Students participating in this placement help protect nature for wildlife and may assist with planting, weeding, seed collection, propagation, and other land management work.

 Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre Placements

Each year, the Nature Parks offers placement opportunities at our Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. These opportunities are available from November to March each year, requiring a two-week commitment from one student at a time. Students completing this placement gain clinical experience as they work with experienced staff to care for sick and injured native wildlife.

Tertiary Internships

The Nature Parks offers a range of internships each year. These internships usually run for 3-4 months, and places are advertised to and filled directly from tertiary institutions that have existing agreements in place with us. To enquire further, we encourage you to contact the Integrated Learning Unit at your institution.

See below some information about past internships offered by the Nature Parks:

Cameras in Conservation Internship

Interns in this role worked with our conservation team to collect and analyse field data. This work helps monitor both native wildlife and introduced species and is essential to help inform future conservation outcomes and decisions. This internship provides industry experience in the fields of ecology and conservation.

Beach Nesting Birds Internship

Interns in this role help achieve our conservation outcomes by monitoring wildlife and introduced species with a focus on beach nesting birds, including hooded plovers. Interns assist the beach nesting birds team with conservation actions such as setting up nest refuges for endangered shorebirds and leading camera trapping projects on nest sites.