Please see our job listings for professional positions, and our UCB student position listings for Cal undergraduate positions.
Students: Semester evaluation downloadable form available here -- please fill out and hand in to Anna Ippolito at the MVZ front office at the end of each semester.
Job opportunities in the MVZ come in many forms:
- Professional Positions
- Volunteer
- Internships
- Work-Study
- Curatorial Assistantships
- Graduate Student Research Positions
- Undergraduate Program
- Professional Positions - Occasionally, the Museum has openings for professional positions (Postdocs, Curators). Advertisements for these positions will be posted on our job listings site.
- Volunteer - The Museum welcomes volunteers
of all types and has many possibilities for them. Within the museum, volunteer
opportunities exist in many areas -- including specimen organization
and preparation, archiving historical materials, GIS work, public
outreach projects, administrative assistance, and more. In addition,
individual researchers affiliated with the museum sometimes take on
volunteers as lab/research assistants and as field assistants.
If you are interested in volunteering to work in the museum, please fill out the following volunteer application form (if you are a Cal Student, please fill out the MVZ Undergraduate Application) and then contact Monica J. Albe. You may hand in the form via the front office (attention Monica) or email it. If you are interested in volunteering as a research or lab assistant, it is also good to contact the researcher directly.
For UC Berkeley retirement community members: check out the new volunteer website: thecenter.berkeley.edu/volunt.html
For UC Berkeley students: also check out our undergraduate opportunities page.
Volunteer Timesheet (for all unpaid MVZ undergrads)
Click here!

Please complete a timesheet each month, have it signed by your supervisor,
and return it to the front desk box labelled "MVZ Undergraduate Timesheets."
- Internships - Internship positions are directed toward advanced undergraduate students visiting from another school, recent graduates, or persons working on their masters degrees. Typically, we have 2 openings for individuals wishing to learn more about museums, vertebrate diversity, and natural history. The positions have flexible start and end times, and are either full time for 3-6 months, or part time for 6 months. These positions are unpaid. read more.
We also have a special partnership with the UCB Biology Scholars Program and offer several internships to BSP students during the academic school year. Read more.
- Work-Study - Cal Students only. The MVZ typically hires students
with work study support to assist either in the collections or the
administrative office. Tasks vary from processing of tissue loans
and numbering of bones to reprint processing and filing, filing of
correspondence, and other office activities. For current listings,
see the work study web site. Cal Students should also fill out a MVZ Undergraduate Application and submit it to the front office, attention Anna Ippolito, or email it to Anna Ippolito.
- Curatorial Assistantships - Cal students only. The MVZ provides annual
support for three half-time Curatorial
Assistants (CAs) to work in the collections (one position for
herps, birds, and mammals, respectively). CAs are hired on a semester-by-semester
basis and during the summer. Positions are filled by hiring either
one person at 50% time, or two people at 25% time. Read more….
- Graduate Student Research Positions - Graduate students interested in a research assistantship (GSR position) should contact individual faculty members. Please also see research and conference support.
