The Gumbo Limbo volunteers help make the Center and its programs a success. Our volunteers put in over 22,000 hours annually...that's the equivalent of 11 full-time employees!
Join our volunteer team and spread the word.
Volunteer Guide
Responsibilities: As a volunteer guide you will rotate between two stations: 1) Information desk and 2) four outdoor seawater tanks. Your training will allow you to give interesting information to visitors about our resident sea turtles, sharks, rays and a variety of other inhabitants of our mangrove and coral reef tanks. Further duties include greeting and directing visitors, answering the phone and handling program and membership registrations.
Qualifications: You must be flexible, friendly and willing to greet visitors and make them feel welcome; you must be able to educate visitors about South Florida's natural history and have the ability to work outdoors.
School Program Assistant
Responsibilities: 1) Assist the Program Interpreters with school classes during the school year and summer camps durng the summer 2) Help with crowd control and answer questions. 3) Assist with hands-on activities and lab rotations
Qualifications: 1) Experience working with children 2) The ability to modify teaching methods to the appropriate age group 3) Should be friendly and enjoy interacting with children
Gift Shop
Responsibilities: Operate the cash register, organize, price and stock merchandise.
Qualifications: Must be friendly and able to handle basic sales transactions.
Green Thumb Club
Responsibilities: Help maintain our living display of butterfly plants, native plants and herbs. Duties include maintenance of our container garden: watering, mulching, weeding and transplanting.
Qualifications: A green thumb! Tolerance for the outdoors.
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Exotic tree & plant removal
Office assistant
Carpentry with the "Hammerhead Club"
Groundskeeping
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