Careers
Work for Como Friends
Join our team and put your conservation values to work by ensuring that Como Park Zoo & Conservatory has the resources it needs to thrive, and remain free and accessible to all.
Marketing with a Mission
Are you an animals, plants and people person? If so, you may have just the right stuff to join our fundraising and retail teams at Como Friends, where promoting conservation and building community is all in a day’s work.
Position Description
Como Friends is proud to partner with Ballinger | Leafblad in the search for its next President—a rare opportunity to lead the nonprofit partner of the beloved Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, visited by nearly 1.8 million people each year. As the philanthropic engine behind transformational capital projects, conservation efforts, and barrier-free access, Como Friends plays a vital role in shaping this treasured public space. The next President will build on a strong foundation of support, bringing visionary leadership, fundraising expertise, and a commitment to the public, private partnership that makes Como thrive—honoring its legacy while leading it into a vibrant and inclusive future.
Position Description
The Sales Associate will assist in daily operations of Garden Safari Gifts, a gift shop that sells a wide range of merchandise appealing to the diverse people who visit Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, and in establishing Garden Safari Gifts as a destination gift store in the Twin Cities market. The Sales Associate directly assists customers in Garden Safari Gifts, Glacier Gifts and gift shop kiosks and ensures excellent customer service while promoting Como Friends and its mission.
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VALUE / BENEFIT
Since 2000, Como Friends has invested more than $47 million in major improvements and new programs at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory. Help protect, preserve and promote Minnesota’s most popular cultural destination by joining our team.
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VALUE / BENEFIT
Shopping at Como Friends’ Garden Safari Gifts helps to support the thriving gardens and animals at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory. As a member of our team, you can put your marketing skills to work for a mission-driven organization committed to conservation and community building.
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VALUE / BENEFIT
Come to work at one of Minnesota’s most iconic destinations. Surrounded by gorgeous public gardens and great animal habitats, Como Friends is headquartered on the campus of Como Park Zoo & Conservatory. Through our special events, donor stewardship, community engagement, and retail sales everything we do at Como Friends helps to keep Minnesota’s most visited cultural destination free and accessible to all 365 days a year.