Address: 3826 N. Taylor Road
Hanna City, IL 61536

Phone: 309-676-0998

Internships at Wildlife Prairie Park

Wildlife Prairie Park’s intern program provides a truly unique opportunity to college students to participate in animal care and welfare, conservation education, and marketing opportunities while gaining professional experience necessary for today’s competitive industries. Intern positions offer a wide array of valuable professional experiences not available through classwork alone. This is an experiential based program and is therefore unpaid. Interns are responsible for their own housing needs. There is no guarantee of employment at the end of the internship. To apply, you must currently be enrolled in college or recently graduated.

Animal Care Internships

This internship offers a wide range of experience in animal care, welfare, and behaviors. Working with Wildlife Prairie Park’s animal keepers, animal care interns will provide basic animal care including feeding, cleaning, and record keeping for select species.

Interns will also make animal behavior observations and help with enrichment projects.

Conservation Education Internships

This internship provides experience in environmental interpretation and conservation education. Working with Wildlife Prairie Park’s education team, interns have the opportunity to further develop skills in public speaking, research writing, and guest interaction while engaging a diverse audience for a variety of education programs, on-grounds animal interpretation, and can get involved in a conservation education program.

Marketing Internships

This internship is project-based concentrating on developing brand awareness mostly through video media that will be used for events, internal signage, and across all social media platforms including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok.  

  • Develop, record, and edit a video through completion, meeting the criteria and goals set for the specific project chosen to create brand awareness. 
  • Assist in content creation for Park generated videos 
  • Develop social media marketing, and awareness campaigns 
  • Help prepare PowerPoint presentation for park branding education and its impact toward customer experience.  
  • Assist in non-funded campaign and strategies for greater Park awareness 
  • Assist in execution of special member and guest events and activities  
  • We can tailor projects based on desired outputs as well
  • Applicants must have their own equipment
Marketing Internship Details

To Apply

To apply, please fill out the Application and upload all the required documents listed below.

INTERN APPLICATION
  • Intern Application
  • Cover Letter answering the following questions:
    • How the internship relates to their career goals.
    • How the internship program benefits the intern.
  • Resume
  • Transcript
  • Two References
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Wildlife Prairie Park occasionally takes photographs or video of participants for promoting/advertising our programs, services, events, activities, and facilities in our brochures, website, social media, and other promotional materials. By entering Wildlife Prairie Park or registering for, participating in or attending the Park’s programs, events, or other activities, the participant (or parent/guardian of a minor participant) irrevocably agrees to the use and distribution by Wildlife Prairie Park of his or her image (or of his minor child/ward) in photographs, video recordings, and any other electronic reproductions of such programs, events and activities for any purpose without inspection or approval and without compensation, rights to royalties or any other consideration now and in the future.

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