Jobs & Internships

We are seeking an enthusiastic Community Outreach Manager to guide and support our programming across Massachusetts through engaging volunteers, connecting STEM professionals to students, and storytelling about these activities across MSEF’s target audiences of students, schools and industry. Through this newly created role, we aim to improve access and opportunity across school districts. Strategic engagement with volunteers and community members can help students see how the science fair process can provide a pathway for a STEM career.

This person will promote the science fair model, supporting volunteers engaging with middle and high schools students, and supporting teachers and schools with identifying meaningful ways to engage and train volunteers. The Community Outreach Manager will work closely with the Program Director to create the structures for training and school support to increase connections with industry professionals through coaching and mentoring programs. Program initiatives will also include assessing where race, culture and access influences science learning and advancement, and shaping training and program supports accordingly.

Are you looking to combine your love of the outdoors and working with children this summer on beautiful scenic Cape Cod?

Wellfleet Bay Nature Day Camp resides on our 1100-acre coastal wildlife sanctuary and is seeking individuals to foster experiential nature-based learning for campers. We aim to promote positive youth development, stewardship for the environment, and a respectful and inclusive safe space for all our campers. Children will range from grades K-8, and staff will most likely work with similar age groups all summer.

Accurate Plastics, located in Falmouth, Massachusetts is looking for an entry level associate engineer to help us optimize our present manufacturing processes, create procedures, and assist with the management of the quality system.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is currently accepting applications for Fall Session 2021 Marine Mammal Stranding Internships.

The Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) seeks an intern to assist staff with our Cyanobacteria Monitoring Program. The program is a Cape-wide initiative to collect and analyze monitoring data on cyanobacteria in freshwater ponds on Cape Cod, and to communicate results to stakeholders and local officials. For the 2021 season (May – October), APCC is partnering with organizations and local officials to monitor ponds in each of the 15 towns on Cape Cod, with a target of 150 ponds monitored across the region.

This summer, Woods Hole Sea Grant and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are teaming up with Earthwatch Institute for the Girls in Science (GiS) Fellowship.

Falmouth Volunteers In Public Schools, Inc. Service Description: The Falmouth Volunteers In Public Schools program, in collaboration with Falmouth Public Schools is seeking applicants for a Massachusetts Promise Fellowship fellow to help implement the Pathways Program.

The Education Coordinator II (EC II) position based out of Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary focuses on coordination of school programs for the Mid and Upper Cape communities, but collaborates closely with the Education Coordinator III (EC III) to assist in overseeing school programming across the Cape Cod Region.

SUMMARY: Woodwell Climate Research Center seeks applicants for a temporary field assistant position with a background in natural sciences or science education to assist with the Coonamessett River Adopt-a-herring school outreach program. This position will involve PIT tagging live River herring on the Coonamessett River as well as developing educational materials about river ecology and herring life history and presenting to students, either in person or remotely. The successful applicant will work as part of a team consisting of scientists, teachers and volunteers in collaboration with the Coonamessett River. Contact with the public, schools, and other interested parties will be required.

Assembly of electronics according to written manufacturing instructions and product specifications.

The Buzzards Bay Coalition seeks an experienced, energetic, and team oriented Land Stewardship Assistant. The full-time position is a member of the Coalition’s Watershed Protection Team and reports to the Land Stewardship Director.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently seeking a Part-Time Helper to join the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. This is a temporary, casual, non-exempt position eligible for casual benefits.