Vacancies

Current Vacancies

Thank you for your interest in joining our team, below are the current opportunities available at Marwell Wildlife. We update this page regularly so if there are no opportunities listed below, we would recommend checking back again soon.

• Keeper’s Kitchen – Kitchen Manager
• Keeper’s Kitchen – Supervisors 
• Keeper’s Kitchen – Cooks
• Educator 
• Senior Animal Keeper – Birds

A Marwell Wildlife application form must be completed to be considered for all vacancies. Please send your completed application form to jobs@marwell.org.uk. Please contact us if you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application and please read our dress code policy before applying.

We welcome your application against any of our current vacancies, however, please be aware that our roles are very popular and our HR team is very small so if we haven’t contacted you within 28 days from the closing date your application has unfortunately not been successful on this occasion. Sadly we will also be unable to respond to any speculative enquires and whilst each application will be considered on a case by case basis, Marwell Wildlife’s usual policy is not to re employ former employees.

Successful applicants for vacancies with Marwell Wildlife may be required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check as a condition of employment.

Marwell Wildlife is an equal opportunities employer.

Colden Common, Winchester, Hants, SO21 1JH. Registered charity number 275433. marwell.org.uk

Work experience

Keeper Work Experience

Important information:
If you are interested in keeper work experience, please read the following carefully before completing our application form.

The application form is currently closed and will be reopened in November.

Applications for 2026 should be submitted no earlier than 01 November 2025 and the closing date is 31 December 2025.

All applications will be reviewed from January 2026

Please be aware that our roles are very popular, and our team is very small so if we haven’t contacted you by 28 February your application has unfortunately not been successful on this occasion. Sadly, we will also be unable to respond to any speculative enquires and each application will be considered on a case by case basis.

Please ensure your application is completed in full.

Marwell runs an unpaid work experience keeper scheme between March and September each year, for a period of two weeks only.

Placements are limited to students 17 years of age and over and who are already  studying an animal related course such as the Diploma in The Management of Zoo and Aquarium Animals (DMZAA), and who wish to be in the zoo industry as an Animal Keeper.

For Sparsholt College & University Centre (Winchester) students – applications should be made to your tutor direct at the beginning of November of the year prior to the period of work experience required.

To be considered for a position please complete an application form. The application form will be added in November for 2026 placements.

We do not offer internships

All work experience students must fulfil all of the above criteria and be able to produce a letter from their tutor confirming their appropriate course and be able to attend an interview before being considered for a placement.

Animal Behaviour Work Experience Placement

As an action oriented conservation charity, Marwell Wildlife’s desire is to connect people with nature. Through enthusing people about the wonders of the natural world we’re certain they’ll share our passion to conserve it.

An exciting work experience opportunity has arisen to support Marwell’s Animal Behaviourist with researching, monitoring and assessing animal welfare across our 140 acre zoological park. This work experience opportunity will allow the successful applicant to gain experience in zoo-based research and the scientific assessment and advancement of animal welfare.

Working alongside our Animal Behaviourist as part of our wider Veterinary Services Team your duties will include:

• Research project design
• Behavioural data collection via direct observations or via video
• Mining of existing databases for analysis
• Behavioural data analysis (including statistical analysis)
• Maintaining research records
• Carrying out literature searches and report/journal writing
• Support use of the Animal Welfare Assessment Grid
• Organising and leading Journal Club
• Support with general administration

This placement is suitable for applicants with or working towards an undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in zoology, animal behaviour/welfare, biology, or a related discipline. Experience collecting behavioural data would also be advantageous as would basic statistical analysis skills.

The duration of the placement is 9 months or longer, 35 hours per week, starting at the beginning of September 2025.

If you are interested, please send a CV and covering letter to: jobs@marwell.org.uk

Please note work experience placements are unpaid.

Disclaimer: we will be reviewing applications say they come in and we reserve the right to close a vacancy if we receive applications that meet the selection criteria. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Veterinary student applications

Where possible, Marwell’s vet team provide clinical EMS placements to 4th and final year veterinary students, wishing to get an insight into veterinary work in a UK zoo. Earlier years cannot be accommodated at present.

Update: We currently have a few 4-week placement blocks in August – December 2025 for 4^th and final year veterinary students wanting to do Clinical EMS in a zoo setting. We are unable to accommodate Pre-clinical placements in the vet department. Please indicate your order of preference by emailing the table below back to us at jobs@marwell.org.uk. We will allocate placements on a “first come first served” basis.

An example is given below which indicates that the student would prefer the 29^th September block, but if this is filled already then they could do 4^th August, or 27^th October. The blanks indicate that they couldn’t do 1^st Sept or 24^th November

Internships

We do not offer internships at this time.

We regret that we are unable to take students from school for keeper work experience.

Work experience in our education department

We regret that we are unable to offer work experience at this time.

Seasonal Vacancies

Thank you for your interest in joining our team, below are the current opportunities available at Marwell Wildlife. We update this page regularly so if there are no opportunities listed below, we would recommend checking back again soon.

Trustee Vacancies

Current Vacancies

Thank you for your interest in joining our team, below are the current opportunities available at Marwell Wildlife. We update this page regularly so if there are no opportunities listed below, we would recommend checking back again soon.

• Trustee – Legal Representative