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The Marine Mammal Center is an equal opportunity, nonprofit employer committed to social and environmental equity.
Careers
Field Operations & Response
Monterey Bay Operations Senior Manager
The Monterey Bay Operations (MBO) Senior Manager provides direction and oversight for The Marine Mammal Center’s central response region and animal care field office in Castroville. This role is part of the Field Operations & Response (FOR) leadership team, shaping strategy for SLO while contributing to planning across FOR and Animal Operations. This role ensures consistent and efficient operations within the MBO range, across FOR, and across Animal Operations while also connecting MBO to other departments and representing both MBO and FOR across the organization and with external audiences. Areas of responsibility include regional response, animal care, facility and vehicle operations, equipment and inventory, community engagement, higher education partnerships, and media representation, combining program management with strategic oversight to ensure excellence in MBO programs and align with the Center’s mission and strategic priorities.
Castroville, California • Full-time • Posted June 30, 2026
Donor Stewardship
Development Associate, Stewardship
The Development Associate supports donor stewardship, legacy giving administration, and philanthropic operations for The Marine Mammal Center’s Advancement team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Donor Relations, this role helps ensure thoughtful donor engagement, strong operational systems, and excellent donor service across stewardship and planned giving activities. Through donor stewardship and planned giving support, this position helps build philanthropic partnerships and provides key support with donor communications, tours and events, the donor acknowledgment processes, CRM record management, reporting, and legacy giving administration. The Development Associate also assists with the planned giving program, which may include, but is not limited to stewardship of Steller Legacy Circle members, reporting and analysis, and communications related to estate and legacy gift administration.
Sausalito, California • Full-time • Posted June 22, 2026
Train and Learn Alongside Our Experts
The Marine Mammal Center is the largest marine mammal teaching hospital and a critical training ground for health and welfare professionals from around the world, combining high-quality animal care with a hands-on learning environment.
Internships & Externships
Pathology & Diagnostics
Veterinary Anatomic Pathology Resident Rotation in Marine Mammal Medicine and Pathology
The Veterinary Anatomic Pathology Resident Rotation is an opportunity for anatomic and clinical pathology residents in established programs (traditional and non-traditional tracks) or those that have recently completed a program, to gain experience in marine mammal anatomy and pathology. Rotating residents will provide postmortem data on our patients and select carcasses, which consists of phocids, otariids, and the occasional cetacean and sea otter. During their time at The Marine Mammal Center, they will become familiar with marine mammal gross necropsy and histopathology including classic diseases.
Sausalito, California • 2-4 week rotation between 1/1/27 and 12/31/27
Conservation Engagement & Education
Sustainability Service Corps Fellow
Applicants must apply through the Sustainability Service Corps website. Scroll to Bay Area – North: The Marine Mammal Center, Conservation Engagement Fellow.
We are all one community, compassionate and respectful of each other as we work together to accomplish our mission.
- We engage in honest, thoughtful communication and remain open to feedback and new ideas.
- We embrace diversity and bring a positive approach to our work as a team.
- We take pride in what we achieve together and continually strive to learn and improve.
- We build trust by honoring commitments, taking responsibility for our actions and assuming good intentions in others.
Become a Volunteer
Volunteers are the heart and soul of The Marine Mammal Center. You can help rescue and rehabilitate marine mammals, educate the public, and so much more.
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