John James Audubon painted birds. His seminal work, Birds of America, was a collection of 435 life-size prints. To this day, when you hear the name Audubon, you think of birds. Interestingly enough, John James Audubon had no direct involvement with the founding of the National Audubon Society. Audubon’s widow, Lucy, tutored a man named George Bird Grinnell and some of Audubon’s love of birds must have rubbed off, as Grinnell was one of the Audubon Society’s founders. To this day, the Audubon Society persists in its mission “to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.” The Audubon Society works to achieve this mission through a national network of community-based nature centers and chapters and scientific, educational, and advocacy programs.

These Jobs Are for the Birds

The National Audubon Society has a long list of current job openings in locations all across the country. We scanned over them, and identified all the jobs that don’t list experience requirements for you. The Audubon does a very good job of identifying their desired experience level for each position, so you should be pretty confident that these jobs can be considered entry-level.

• Administrative Assistant – TX
• Bird Atlas Coordinator – MN
• Conservation Associate Northern Everglades – FL
• Field Technician- Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search – NC
• National Outreach Coordinator – DC
• Office Manager – LA
• Seasonal Field Technician – NC

There are also quite a few jobs listed that require 2 to 3 years of experience. These may be worth a look, since many of them seem like they could be filled by competent new college grads, but we’ll let you go find them on Audubon’s Jobs page. We should also warn you that one job listing says that the start date is in 2006. We hope that this is a result of a careless copy-paste job, but we have no way of knowing how recently all of these jobs were posted. We couldn’t find much information on what it’s like to work for Audubon, but it probably varies widely depending on location. If you’re a birder, and you’re looking for non-profit work, figure out which of the above jobs you like the best and send your cover letter and resume to HumanResources@audubon.org.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• Audubon.org
• Jobs with the National Audubon Society
• About the National Audubon Society
• Audubon’s Annual Report
• Audubon’s Green Office
• Audubon’s Timeline

What’s your favorite bird? We like birds of prey like hawks, eagles, and falcons.

We've identified National Audubon Society as having career opportunities in the following categories:

• administrative
• all employers
• animals
• biology
• conservation
• Florida
• green
• Louisiana
• Minnesota
• non-profit
• North Carolina
• outreach
• Texas
• Washington DC
• zoology

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